The art of camouflage: Liu Bolin’s photograph-performances for Ruinart reveal the invisible

Liu Bolin x Ruinart: Ruinart presents collaboration with artist Liu Bolin. Ruinart has had a long-standing relationship with the Arts. In 1895, Andre Ruinart asked Czech artist Alphonse Mucha to illustrate a poster of Ruinart. Today the brand is still closely involved with Contemporary Art and plays a role in numerous international events such as … Read more

Versatile jewellery looking for a body to adorn: Chopard Ice Cube

Pile-up white, yellow or rose gold polished pieces for an ultra-glam look. Oh, and it’s been crafted from ethical ‘Fairmined’ certified gold. Here’s the perfect addition to any outfit formula. Brilliant-cut diamonds and tightly packed rows enter our sartorial radar. Chopard‘s new Ice Cube adds the right dose of urban chic to ensembles with edgy … Read more

Architect Jean-Francois Adam’s vision of contemporary yet timeless Indian Ocean living: LUX* Grand Gaube in Mauritius

LUX* Grand Gaube has re-opened this month already welcoming its first guests. All rooms, suites and villas of the newly re-opened LUX* Grand Gaube Mauritius offer stunning seaviews and airy verandas, some with outdoor baths or sundecks edged by the resort’s private cove. Fitted with LUX* Sleeptight mattresses and highest quality refined Egyptian cotton linens, … Read more

The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller review – yours for half a billion

Christie’s, King Street, London
Picasso’s bolshy flower girl is just one of the rare gems to be glimpsed in London before this vast private collection goes under the hammer

LVMH’s support to bring this Renaissance masterpiece back to Louvre

  This historic acquisition will bring King François I’s Book of Hours, an outstanding artwork, back to France. Last year, this unique masterpiece, listed as a French National Treasure, has been put up for sale by its London owner. In order to add it to the French national collections, the Louvre initiated a campaign to … Read more

Best travel book of the year: Kapka Kassabova’s Border wins Stanford Dolman award

A timely account of a fraught part of Europe is named Stanford Dolman travel book of the year. Here, one of the judges heralds a master storyteller and gives an overview of the nominees