How luxury hotels such as Biarritz’s Hôtel du Palais have helped shape history
The venue for this weekend’s G7 summit played a pivotal role in Edwardian politics
Europe
Room in the middle: the artisan revival of Portugal’s interior
A small but growing number of investors are hoping to reverse the slow-motion decline of rural areas
Left to rot: the new global effort to preserve lost monuments
From a railway run by children in Ljubljana to brutalist monuments in the Balkans, the Nonument Group maps abandoned 20th-century architecture
Gucci hires diversity chief after criticism over insensitive designs
Garments from Italian fashion house have faced objections on racial and religious grounds
Fantastique beasts: cult art from the Lalannes’ private collection to go on sale
Surreal works from the home of François-Xavier Lalanne and his wife Claude expected to fetch up to £20m
Aston Martin shares plunge after slump in sales across Europe
Manufacturer hit by a 22% fall in sales to UK car dealers in the second quarter