“Year of the Red Fire Monkey” by Ulysse Nardin – A joyful timepiece, one cannot help but smile when checking the time

Playful and happy “Year of the Red Fire Monkey” by Ulysse Nardin. 2016 celebrates the playful and happy Red Fire Monkey – the ninth animal in the Chinese Zodiac. Continuing the tradition of Zodiac- inspired dials, luxury Swiss watch manufacturer Ulysse Nardin (founded in 1846 in Le Locle, Switzerland) introduced the “Year of the Monkey” … Read more

Joy, the famous perfume by Jean Patou, recreated in its 1932 bottle

A limited collector’s edition of the iconic Joy fragrance. Each bottle is filled by hand and sealed. The original Jean Patou’s Joy perfume bottle was recreated by the famous French couture and perfume house for a collector’s edition.This 2015 version of Joy is the “purest, richest and most concentrated” of all the variations of Patou’s … Read more

The Café Racer, Scrambler, and Bulldozer join Italjet’s retro-styled e-bike trio

Italjet, Italian manufacturer of motorcycles since 1959, is always on the border between design and technology. Italjet motorcycles and e-bikes are identified with quality and maximum originality. Among the many new ventures of the company in recent years, is the ever expanding e-bike collection, lauded for the singular design, halfway between a bicycle and a … Read more

The £30m bookshelf: Pierre Bergé and the greatest stories ever sold

With Impressionists on their walls and priceless books on their shelves, Pierre Bergé and his former partner Yves Saint Laurent were the ultimate collectors. But now the art and YSL have gone, Bergé says it’s time ‘to attend the funeral’ of his library

Firenze4Ever 12th Edition: TechDreamers. Technology through the language of fashion, art, design and music

TechDreamers inspired by Swarovski: An installation, a limited edition, an exhibition dedicated to the visionaries. The Fashion Weeks officially open with Firenze4Ever 2016 (9-11 January, 2016) in Firenze, the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. The 12th edition is dedicated to TechDreamers, visionaries who give form to … Read more

Poltrona Frau Babel. A home bar unit, three cupboards, for the living room.

Ebony, steel, and Pelle Frau. Designer Roberto Lazzeroni joins elegance and innovation in Babel – a compact home bar unit comprising three cupboards in two different sizes. The largest, placed on the floor to support the other two, is in multiple birch with an ebony veneer MDF top and it has a chromium- plated tubular … Read more