Green and Growing
A green sanctuary at the edge of Thailand’s oldest rainforest offers the eco-conscious a place to feel good about feeling good With the opening of Thanyamundra Organic Resort, Thailand’s interior just got a little greener. Sitting at the edge of the Khao Sok National...
Seaside Sensation
Tracy Emin, the wildest young British artist to have shot to fame after the Royal Academy’s Seminal Sensation exhibition 15 years ago, has calmed down and gone home to the seaside town of Margate. Or has she? Caroline Davies caught up with her at the Turner...
Beijing Star
Championed by the influential alternative gallery Beijing Commune, Huang Yuxing is one of China’s artistic stars. Here he speaks to LUX about art, life, and everything. Born in Beijing in 1975, Huang Yuxing graduated from The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in...
The Final Frontier
Liu Wei: Don’t Touch, Faurschou Beijing, 2011 A dining room, replete with detail, created by Xu Bing, one of China’s most creative symbolic artists Turbulent, MadeIn Company Exhibition Space, 2012 The final frontier Our columnist is a pioneer, an artist...
Art at Home
Serena Morton had a unique challenge to curate an art collection for one of London’s landmark historic buildings, now an exclusive members’ club. The twist: she had to complement décor ranging from Georgian grand to Zaha Hadid-designed cool. Caroline Davies discovers...
Luxury Travel View
In which our Editor-in-Chief travels from a neo-Mongolian skyscraping culinary landmark in Hong Kong to a 17th century tithe barn in Hampshire, and points between Arriving in Hong Kong from London in the early evening, being whisked to my hotel and being checked in...
Not Just a Pretty Face
Chinese jewellery designer Dickson Yewn combines contemporary chic with rich historical references – and is a favourite of Michelle Obama. Karys Webber meets him “It’s akin to asking if one likes a pretty girl with no soul”, says Hong Kong-based jewellery designer,...
Indonesia Voyage of Discovery
Indonesian art is hot at the moment as collectors worldwide discover its variety, spirituality and depth. Arianne Levene, a leading global curator of Asian art, presents her four favourite Indonesian artists. Agus Suwage Agus Suwage is one of Indonesia’s most...
Art’s Hot Six
Six of the best Anyone with a few million to burn can buy a Richter, but who are the hottest living artists that everyone doesn’t know about? Our columnist, a consultant to some of the world’s most prominent collectors, gives the lowdown on her hot half dozen LISA...
A Stately Cruise
When your everyday car is a Rolls Royce Phantom and your back garden stretches over thousands of hectares, a drive between your properties in something completely different has its own sort of appeal. Dr Sin Chai, a Scottish-based entrepreneur, makes a tour of some of...