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Qatar Royals bought Cezanne’s painting for £158,4m, a Record!
A Record to Change the Whole Art Market Structure The sale beats the previous record of £88.7 million paid for Jackson Pollock’s No 5, 1948, in 2006. The other four pieces in Cézanne’s post-impressionist series, painted in the early-to-mid 1890s, are held by the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Courtauld…
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Saving for a House Before Learning to Tie Shoes
Coldwell Banker, the century-old American real estate brokerage (founded in 1906 and now part of Compass International Holdings), has published its 2026 American Dream Report, based on a Harris Poll of 2,060 US adults surveyed in early September. The headline reads that 82% of parents of children aged five and under are saving, or have…
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Cabinets of Curiosity: A Lit-Up Bar and a €30,000 Trumeau
Two luxury Italian houses, two cabinets, one trick. In both, the pleasure comes at the moment of opening the door. Poltrona Frau is the Italian leather-and-furniture house founded in Turin in 1912 by Renzo Frau, famous for its full-grain Pelle Frau leather. Its Fidelio drinks cabinet, designed by the Pisa-born architect and designer Roberto Lazzeroni,…
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Mountain Air, City Pavement: Brunello Cucinelli’s Winter Edit and the Quiet Business Behind It
Brunello Cucinelli, the Umbrian luxury house founded in 1978 in the hilltop village of Solomeo, built its name on coloured cashmere and a gentle philosophy it calls humanistic capitalism. It sells luxury menswear, womenswear and accessories without loud logos, a stance its founder describes as “absolute luxury without a logo.” This October it released its…
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Made in Britain, Voted by Peers: Reading the British Luxury Brand of the Year Shortlist
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in Art, Beauty, Best Of Luxury, Business, Cigars & Spirits, Design, Fashion, Gifts, Gourmet, Hi Tech, Holiday, LUST, Pets, SHELTER, Sport & Health, Watches|JewelryOn Monday 9 November, at The Dorchester on Park Lane, a London ballroom will crown the British Luxury Brand of the Year. The organiser is Walpole, the official sector body for UK’s £81 billion luxury industry, with more than 250 member companies across fashion, cars, hospitality, beauty and interiors. The prize is not decided by…
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Mandarin Oriental Is Collecting Houses (Some of Them Monasteries)
Mandarin Oriental, the Hong Kong hotel group with a fan as its emblem, has been quietly building a collection of private homes it vets, services and rents out as if they were rooms in one of its hotels. This autumn it added another dozen, which takes the Exceptional Homes collection to 44 villas, castles, farmhouses…