To the 19th-Century mariner, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich was the focal point not just of London, but of the entire world. Britain’s road signs deem a plaque on Trafalgar Square to be the capital’s traditional dead centre, but army cartographers recently calculated that London’s “geographic centroid” is 900 metres away, in a spot now […]
Army officer turned tailor Tony Lutwyche wove himself into British tailoring folklore when, in 2006, he rescued a 1930s hand-tailoring workshop – artisanal employees and all – back in 2006. Now operating from his atelier in Mayfair, Lutwyche is making his mark across The Pond, having leased the entire third floor of 717-719 Madison Avenue.
It may be one of the greatest travesties in photographic history that Slim Aarons – who, in the post-war decades, captured the private lives of the jet set’s leisurely exploits in sun-soaked locales such as Monte Carlo, Capri, Ibiza and Palm Beach – never got to point his lens towards Cuixmala, a 25,000 acre string of […]
‘Smallbone of Devizes’ is, to those whose culinary inclinations are infused with a passion for achingly tasteful design, a canonised name. The Wiltshire-based bespoke kitchen design business has over 40 years’ experience in the field: so how does Iain O’Mahony – Special Projects Director for the Canburg Group, which has Smallbone of Devizes under its […]
The debut collection of new Creative Director Mark Weston
The Prince of Wales is among those who relish London-based leather goods company Ettinger’s blend of timeless elegance and bold colours, a gentle paradox literally sewn together with superior craftsmanship. Whether HRH will plump for the brand’s new zipped portfolios remains to be seen, but every-day visitors to Ettinger’s Putney Bridge Road emporium will surely […]
In nature, as Charles Darwin famously pointed out, rarity is the precursor to extinction. In luxury, conversely, rarity is the precursor to distinction, as evidenced by a two-month celebration (finishing on Thursday 16th August) of all things scarce – from precious fabrics and jewels to limited collections and unique in-store experiences – now underway at […]
Remember when the phrase “English wine” was an oxymoron? English wines are winning awards and plaudits the world over, with home grown sparkling wine, in particular, competing with Champagne now thanks to the chalky, sheltered South Downs region being similarly suited to the grape varieties of that region. And, at the vanguard of the English […]
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the first ever Louis Vuitton trunk – which featured a flat top and bottom, so that it could be stacked – being placed onto a steamship set to ferry some well-heeled travellers across The Atlantic. The introduction was a marked improvement on the traditional hefty wood and leather […]
Visitors to Senturion Key’s Mayfair showroom are stopped in their tracks by a spellbinding curio sat atop the table in the greeting area: a hunk of meteorite that hurtled into a Namibian lake around 100m years ago. Look at it from one angle, and a glinting, sliced-flat surface shows off the crystalline alloy structure imposed […]
