Exclusive private jewelry shopping experience creates destination for high fine jewelry and watches

    The Vault – the exclusive, private jewelry shopping experience debuts in New York. The newest destination for high fine jewelry and timepieces debuts at Saks Fifth Avenue New York City. Inspired by a bank, the space includes vault doors, safety deposit box-inspired sculptures, metal textures and rich leather accents. Saks Fifth Avenue unveiled … Read more

Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee: second lives of the Serpentine pavilions

Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?

Miuccia Prada: I hate the idea of being a collector. I really hate it

She’s one of the industry’s biggest names but thinks life is about ideas, not frocks. Armani described her designs as ‘ugly’ but they remain hugely desired. She has opened a giant gallery in Milan but doesn’t like being called a collector. So exactly who is Miuccia Prada?

Rem Koolhaas crafts a spectacular ‘city of art’ for Prada in Milan

A new Roman Polanski film is being shown, Jeff Koons and Donald Judd artworks are strewn about, and Wes Anderson’s designed the kitsch cafe … in a scruffy industrial corner of Milan, Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada have made a dazzling art space, so vast it’s practically a city. Oliver Wainwright is in awe

When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969 / Venice 2013

Fondazione Prada strives to take us back to 1969 Harald Szeeman-curated “When Attitudes Become Form”, a show that made a considerable mark on the art world, is revisited by Fondazione Prada in “When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969 / Venice 2013” exhibition at the Venetian Palace of the Ca ’Corner della Regina. Characterised by a … Read more