Search results for: “luxury living”
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The Queen of Christmas Checks Into Gucci: Butterflies, Crystals and a Very Sparkly Bet
Gucci, the Florentine house now designed by Demna and owned by Kering, has handed its holiday season to the one person whose name has become shorthand for Christmas. Mariah Carey stars in the 2026 Gucci Gift campaign, a short film directed by Harmony Korine, the filmmaker behind Spring Breakers, and set to her own “All…
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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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Azimut: Italian Design on the Water
HOW A TURIN STUDENT’S CHARTER BUSINESS BECAME ONE OF ITALY’S DEFINING YACHT BRANDS A Student in Turin Azimut was founded in 1969 by Paolo Vitelli, then a university student, who began by chartering sailing boats to people in Turin. In 1970 the Amerglass brand chose his company to distribute its boats in Italy, and from…
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Checkmate Has Never Cost This Much
Decoding Chanel’s world-first Haute Horlogerie chessboard — and why the watch industry is suddenly obsessed with games. Somewhere in a Swiss workshop, a team of artisans spent thousands of hours doing something that, on paper, sounds almost absurdly simple: building a chess set. Except this isn’t the chess set gathering dust in your parents’ living…
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Daniel Libeskind Wants Six Skyscrapers to Feel Like One Sculpture
Decoding Seoul’s newest ultra-luxury redevelopment — and what “a living work of art” actually means when it’s zoned for 1,000 apartments Every architect eventually says their building is “a living work of art.” Usually this means a lobby with a slightly unusual ceiling. Studio Libeskind‘s new project in Seoul’s Gangnam district is testing whether that…