Jean-Claude Biver, LVMH and Hublot watch guru: true luxury is unique and eternal
With a billion people about to become luxury consumers over the next decade, real luxury will become more personal, more individual and more secretive. So predicts our columnist, JEAN-CLAUDE BIVER, continuing our series on business philosophy and strategy
Simon de Pury, auctioneer: Art is the ultimate luxury and greatest legacy
The investment potential of the best art will just keep on increasing, says Simon de Pury, one of the world’s most renowned auctioneers, as art becomes ever more aligned with high luxury. A continuation of our series on investment and business philosophy and strategy.
Chopard’s Caroline Scheufele on the Next Generation
As artistic director and co-president of Chopard, CAROLINE SCHEUFELE sees it as her duty not only to keep the famed jewellery house’s A-list clientele happy, but also to have a vision of the consumer of the future. She tells LUX why provenance will be everything
Rural Focus: Lucknam Park & Lords of the Manor
Two typical English country house hotels at the very top of their game can lead to two superb, yet quite different, experiences, as LUX discovers LUCKNAM PARK The arrival To arrive at Lucknam Park is to enter into a dream of a 19th-century English romantic novel. We...
An unexpected paradise off the coast of Africa
On the south side of an island off the coast of Africa, yet pleasingly accessible, the Ritz-Carlton Abama is one of the most dramatic resorts in the world, as DARIUS SANAI discovers A perfect storm in the luxury travel world has meant the world is unrecognisably...