The Watercolour World: reviving paintings of the past
The Watercolour World is an ambitious online project to digitise the world’s watercolours and rescue this all-too-often overlooked but artistically and historically significant medium from being forgotten. It is creating a wealth of riches for all of us, says Michael...
Designer Mary Katrantzou on the business of fashion
With a decade of successful collections behind her and a penchant for outside-the-box collaborations, Mary Katrantzou is a designer not only bursting with creativity but also with the business acumen to go truly global, as Carolyn Asome discovers Don’t underestimate...
Photographer Thomas Demand on abstract perspectives
German photographer Thomas Demand has become celebrated for his compelling, sometimes shocking, abstract recreations of the everyday. He talks to Anna Wallace-Thompson about the homogenization of our worlds, finding power in the banal, and Saddam Hussein’s kitchen....
In conversation with Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson
The Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson famously brought the sun to Tate Modern. He is now returning for a major retrospective this summer. He talks art, cuisine, and slumber with Christopher Kanal “I am incredibly happy about the whole thing,” Olafur Eliasson explains...
Geoffrey Kent: Life on the thrillionaire trail
Expeditions to the remote and barely explored corners of the planet are not for everybody, but with the help of luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent, destinations previously considered inaccessible to the tourist are now, at a price, within reach. From the...
Rallye des Princesses Richard Mille: the women’s classic car race
Ferraris! France! Finish lines! Equal parts grit and glamour, the Rallye des Princesses is a female-only classic car race with challenging conditions by day and champagne soirées come nightfall. Ahead of this year’s event, Laura Archer speaks to the founder...
Maryam Eisler’s Icelandic photography series
When Maryam Eisler, LUX Contributing Editor and author of The Sublime Feminine, visited Iceland the results were spectacular At first glance, Iceland looks like what the Earth must have been at its very beginning, with the bleakness and sombre colours of the volcanic...
Alpine living: Savills’ luxury chalets in St. Moritz
St Moritz, in Switzerland’s Engadin, is an Alpine paradise in winter, with some of Europe’s best hotels for your skiing vacation. But it could be yours all year round with exclusive chalets for sale. Emma Love reports on the latest Savills offerings and the virtues of...
Island life at the luxury resort of Baha Mar
There has never been a better time to luxuriate in the Bahamas, as Jenny Southan finds out at the new exclusive luxury resort of Baha Mar in Nassau on New Providence Island In an ever-more tumultuous world, the idea of escaping to an island holds much appeal. New...
The success of Hublot’s artist collaborations
Luxury Swiss watchmaker Hublot is letting artists design their timepieces, and their customers and collectors love them. Rachael Taylor examines a new trend in horological branding Hublot chief executive Ricardo Guadalupe was on a skiing holiday in the exclusive...
Beneath the blue clay: Masseto’s new winery
Masseto, Italy’s most celebrated wine, is made from spectacular vineyards by the Tuscan coast, backed by ancient forests, looking out over the Mediterranean. This spring, it received a stunning new winery, whose wonders are all contained underneath the blue clay soil,...
A guide to Rome for the modern traveller
Rome has a lot to offer the modern traveller beyond classical ruins, and at the heart of this burgeoning contemporary scene is the new Hotel de la Ville. Emma Love sings the city’s praises When Hotel de la Ville, high above the Spanish Steps in Rome, opens on 23 May...
Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar: The pursuit of light
Franco-Iranian artist Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar, despite a childhood spent escaping war, then living in post- revolutionary Iran and enduring the subsequent prejudice, produces the most brilliantly coloured and life-affirming paintings. James Parry speaks with him ahead...
Summertime in the alpine village of Andermatt
Andermatt is rapidly becoming one of Switzerland’s best year-round Alpine destinations. Already famed for its winter sports, the resort is now offering activities, accommodation and dining for summer, too, thanks to a major new development. Rob Freeman discovers the...
Samih Sawiris: Let’s create a new industrial revolution
Mass automation will mean the majority of human beings will have little prospect of being in employment. It is essential both to provide for them with financial support, and to create a sense of purpose The transition to the era where the vast majority of people will...
Culinary art: Ramond Blanc at Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons
The Michelin-starred Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons restaurant, run by chef Raymond Blanc, is at the forefront of the culinary arts with its cookery school and Gaggenau kitchen, as Mark C O’Flaherty discovers Few things attach a date to drama on film like a scene...
In conversation with artist duo Philip and Charlotte Colbert
In a warehouse in east London, Philip and Charlotte Colbert are creating a world of Pop art and sculpture that is putting them on the global map. Darius Sanai speaks to the dynamic enfants terribles of the London art scene while Maryam Eisler photographs them At the...
Monaco’s hottest new address: One Monte-Carlo
The new One Monte-Carlo development could just be the swankiest place in the world for you to hang out with your money, your trophy spouse, and your Ferrari Wander to your living room window, glass of Cristal in hand, open the balcony door and step out into a view of...
Frieze NY Special: Trevor Hernandez’s surreal urban photography
In early 2019, Frieze invited surrealist photographer Trevor Hernandez to point his Instagram-focused lens, @gangculture, at its Los Angeles fair. He is one of a new generation of artists who, using social media, are building on and subverting the traditional tenets...
Frieze NY Special: 6 artists creating new spaces
Space in the hands of today’s artists means not just making sculpture but also whole physical or digital environments that the spectator experiences. Clint McLean selects six explorers of these new worlds DEUTSCHE BANK WEALTH MANAGEMENT x LUX JULIE MEHRETU...
Frieze NY Special: In conversation with ruby onyinyechi amanze
Nigerian-born, US-based ruby onyinyechi amanze, the official artist of 2019’s Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Lounge at Frieze New York, is exploring new realms of drawing, as she explains to Clint McLean DEUTSCHE BANK WEALTH MANAGEMENT x LUX Picture a landscape...
Frieze NY Special: Zoe Whitley on the art of collaboration
Traditionally, art exhibitions have been directed by curators, but now there is a move to hand the reins over to the artist. As the eighth edition of Frieze New York gets underway, Zoe Whitley, curator of the British Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, discusses how...