Upper crust: buyers pay up to £5.5m for apartments with pizza lifts
Four luxury flats on the Strand sold for between £3m and £5.5m, with all mod cons including butler’s lift from restaurant next door
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Britain’s super-rich cash in on low interest rates with £1m mortgages
Number of £1m-plus mortgages granted to lenders has risen by a fifth, with private banks main funders of central London trophy properties
How to travel when you’re mega rich and super busy
Super rich people don’t take the tube, rarely get a cab and never fly economy. But, when you’re a super-rich businessman/woman one thing you can’t afford to be frivolous with is time. Affluent CEO’s don’t get where they are today by sitting in queues of traffic or waiting for hours in airport lounges. The financially … Read more
New York Fashion Week: Michael Kors cuts loose on the catwalk
Inspired by New York artist Georgia O’Keeffe, US designer Michael Kors created a light, aspirational and ‘earthy’ collection, including a suede jacket designed for wearing over your yoga clothes
Melnichenko’s epic Sailing Yacht A’, the world’s biggest sailing ship, set on its maiden voyage
Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, founder of the fertilizer producer EuroChem, upgraded his £190million superyacht for a new £260m vessel with one of the simplest names – “A”. ‘Sailing Yacht A‘, now taking its first sea trials in Kiel, northern Germany, is the world’s biggest sailing ship. The 468ft-long luxury yacht designed by Philippe Starck was built near … Read more
Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee: second lives of the Serpentine pavilions
Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?