• Rolls-Royce Syntopia — Textile Ambition

    Rolls-Royce Syntopia — Textile Ambition

    The idea of a bespoke Rolls-Royce will not immediately come across as revolutionary… because every Rolls-Royce in its essence is bespoke. The plethora of options, finishes — and now even models — means that trying to replicate another Rolls-Royce in its entirety would be a near impossible task. Your choice of thread on the indicator…

  • AEHRA — Design without limits

    AEHRA — Design without limits

    Those that know me well know that I’m not exactly enthralled about the idea of electric cars, but perhaps I may just have been a touch hasty. What the electric vehicle powertrains have brought is a performance standard that is more easily obtained as electric motors are able to recreate beloved combustion engine metrics with…

  • SPIRIOCAST — As if by Magic

    SPIRIOCAST — As if by Magic

    Throughout history, music has always had the magical ability to shape the world around it by conducting, emotion, feeling and sentiment.   That said, in a world where the digital streaming favours efficiency over quality, the idea of not only championing traditional formats of music, but progressing them, may seem a touch… alien. For Steinway &…

  • Unveiled — The New Maserati GranTurismo 2023

    Unveiled — The New Maserati GranTurismo 2023

    When I first saw a Maserati GranTurismo some 11 years ago, I remember thinking at the time that car design had peaked. The vehicle profile was striking and vast, baring its teeth as it elegantly roared past. It was design from another era, the past translated into the future if you will, now proven by…

  • Glenfiddich – Reassuringly Timeless

    Glenfiddich – Reassuringly Timeless

    The idea of patience is an increasingly warped notion in modern life. We quite simply hate to wait. In fairness, it’s hard to blame anyone in particular, after all we have all been under involuntary – or perhaps incognisant – training for the past decade, with the amazonic acceleration of delivery times and omnipresent-ly seamless…

  • Brand Mixology — Perfect timing

    Brand Mixology — Perfect timing

    There was a time I could feel myself getting “collab” fatigue; this brand is releasing a collection with that one, or this new modern brand reinterpreting that famous old brand. The fact is I couldn’t have been any further from the truth; as time has progressed, collaborations have actually saved brand creativity. It’s the equivalent…

  • D’OTTO — Artistic Fragrance

    D’OTTO — Artistic Fragrance

    Embracing the notion of fragrance as a liquid artform rather than a trivial embellishment is not necessarily a new concept, but in that pursuit there are indeed many, many levels of accomplishment. Italian fragrance brand D’OTTO are a new arrival, but certainly no pretenders, ticking pretty much every box you can as a fragrance brand.…

  • Boat Tail — Chapter II

    Boat Tail — Chapter II

    To read a good book is to embark on a journey; each chapter further unveiling the storyline, characters, emotive connotations — and the nature of the author. It’s a cumulative revelation, a story building layer upon layer, ultimately leading to a grand finale. By no means at the end of the Boat Tail saga –…

  • Remy Martin XO by LEE BROOM

    Remy Martin XO by LEE BROOM

    The idea that change is “necessary” to remain relevant is something that the classicists have fought for years. Having said that on the other side of the coin, the modernists could argue that if you don’t change you will get left behind. A conundrum indeed. This is where what I call “tasteful re-interpretation” comes in…

  • Christie’s presents Au Bord Du Lac

    Christie’s presents Au Bord Du Lac

    Space: a boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction.     With such a definition, it’s hard to see space as anything other than otherworldly, but we inhabit it in every moment of the humdrum of our lives: crossing the hallway to brush your teeth, shuffling through a…

  • The Frozen Vignettes of Alex Prager

    The Frozen Vignettes of Alex Prager

    For much of her career, photographer Alex Prager has sought minute meaning in large, crowded compositions; often deftly nudging the viewer’s eye to a mischievously planted detail. Signatures on the cast of a high school football player, a bandage on the nose of a woman running in terror, the face in the reflection of a…

  • Tercet — Born of Brotherhood

    Tercet — Born of Brotherhood

    One would think that an institution as esteemed and established as Rémy Martin would have hit something of a(n extremely lofty) plateau by now. The legendary cognac house is nearly 300 years old. The fact they have lasted – or rather, dominated – for so long is not down to reaching pinnacle status and resting…

  • Luxury Comes as a Standard — Hua Hin

    Luxury Comes as a Standard — Hua Hin

    Hua Hin is one of Thailand’s inaugural beach destinations and with such seniority, sophistication and depth come as primary benefits. It manages to strike a balance between built up and bucolic; for every postcard beach there is a grandstanding golf course. Authentic markets offset feverish waterparks and its proximity to Bangkok compared to other Thai…

  • Welcome Home — Glenlivet’s New Crib

    Welcome Home — Glenlivet’s New Crib

    It’s a curious phenomenon, our resistance to change. Change, really, is the staple ingredient to improvement and is in fact the one-word definition of what nature is; so, naturally, there is nothing more natural. So why can it feel so wrong? I think the root of that pain in change is in an urgency to…