Exclusive ladies-only floor at Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh

Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh at Kingdom Centre is the latest hotel to open a space designed only for women. The Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen and The Dukes Hotel in London reserved an entire floor that bans men from use. Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh caters to the comfort of female travellers with an exclusive new … Read more

New “Underground” Innovation Lab for the next generation of travelers

Customization is the direction of future hospitality projects. Marriott Hotels, the flagship brand of Marriott announced the opening of a new 10,000 square foot Innovation Lab located beneath the company’s headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. The Innovation Lab offers rapid prototyping with instant feedback capabilities, bird’s eye views from Internet-enabled cameras, and multiple avenues for customer … Read more

Suzy Menkes’s personal wardrobe at auction

“In My Fashion: The Suzy Menkes Collection”. Iconic fashion journalist Suzy Menkes, awarded an O.B.E by Her Majesty the Queen (Order of the British Empire) for her services to journalism in 2005, and made a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in France the same year, will sell her own wardrobe online via Christie’s “In My … Read more

“In The Pocket”, a tribute to Hermes’ early involvement in watchmaking

2luxury2 at Baselworld 2013. In 1912 Jacqueline Hermès wears the first wristwatch ever created by Hermès. As a child Jacqueline could not wear a watch attached to her clothing or slipped into her pocket. Especially for her, her father devised an ingenious “porte-oignon” or pocket-watch holder designed to fasten it onto the wrist. Drawing upon … Read more

Chateau Mouton Rothschild opens a museum for its collection of wine labels

Picasso, Chagall, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, Lucien Freud, Anish Kapoor, Chinese calligrapher Gu Gan, and Prince Charles, all have in common the design of a Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine label. As compensation, the greatest artists and personalities around the world were paid with ten cases of precious Mouton Rothschild … Read more

GianCarlo Montebello, Stephen Webster, Pasquale Bruni and Roberto Coin among the winners of Andrea Palladio International Jewellery Awards 2013

THE ANDREA PALLADIO JEWELLERY AWARDS – The winners of the 2013 edition The Opening of VICENZAORO Spring, the International Gold and Jewellery Show open at Fiera di Vicenza until 22nd May coincided with the prize-giving ceremony of the second edition of the Andrea Palladio International Jewellery Awards, the Jewellery Oscars, where the very best in … Read more