Viva Technology Paris 2016: LVMH to showcase the best startups in the luxury industry

Viva Technology Paris 2016: LVMH is hosting a “Lab” dedicated to the luxury industry Organized jointly by Groupe Les Echos and Publicis Groupe, VIVA TECHNOLOGY PARIS will give 5,000 startups a chance to engage with business executives, investors, researchers and opinion leaders from around the world. LVMH, the biggest luxury group, is a prominent partner … Read more

Glasgow International review – irrepressible vitality everywhere

Glasgow itself is the focus of its 2016 festival of contemporary art, with 220 artists from around the world jostling for space – and plywood – and everything from the Panama Papers to velvet lobsters

Open all hours: Art Night to give Londoners their own nuit blanche

Inspired by the popular Paris events, audiences will be able to explore art in venues from tube stations to luxury flats for one entire night this summer

Refurbished Palazzo Fendi hosts largest boutique in the world, the very first Fendi hotel, and renowned restaurant Zuma

Palazzo Fendi in Rome Is Both a Boutique and a luxury Hotel. Now there is a unique chance not to just shop at Fendi, but to eat and sleep into its world. Fendi has opened the Palazzo Fendi, a five-story historical palazzo in the heart of Rome. Fendi’s Roman palace includes the world’s largest FENDI … Read more

10 of the best European cities for art nouveau

Art nouveau swept across Europe around the turn of the 20th century and was embraced by architects, graphic and interior designers and artists. Here are the best cities in Europe to get a flavour of its most impressive buildings

En-suite education: the unstoppable rise of luxury student housing

The UK’s student boom has seen a spate of new, expensive, high-spec studio flats for them to live in, even as local residents are desperate for affordable accommodation. From Coventry to Cambridge, are universities starting to resemble property developers – and does this help or hurt our cities?