Luxury

The playful Rolex Day-Date reflects shifts in taste (and breathtaking craft)

Watch auctions tend to reflect the prevailing mood, adjusting sentiment for or against this Patek or that Panerai, just as…

Restaurant review: Tonic and Remedy, Old Street

A return to the lost parties of club culture

Appropriately, I was looking through photographs when I had the lightbulb moment. This was a few months ago. The Last…

Milan shows it's not just stylish but sophisticated too

Boy About Town Zak Smith journeys to northern Italy to sample Milan, with help from the new Four Seasons app…

Diary: Olga Polizzi visits her hotels at home and abroad

POP ART Gagosian Gallery has just curated the artwork in our newly refurbished tearooms in Brown’s Hotel in Mayfair. At…

The story of Gaggenau: headline sponsors of the Wealth Management Awards 2015

The company was founded in 1683 by Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden,who established an ironworks in the town of Gaggenau.…

South Africa hasn't gone to the dogs at the Makanyane Lodge

The local ‘painted dogs’, after whom the lodge is named, are the perfect symbol for your perfect holiday Makanyane Lodge…

Signet rings are back in fashion for more than Hoorah Henrys

The sign on the wall read ‘Keep focused and get a massive amount of shit done’. ‘It doesn’t work,’ joked…

The Goodwood inspired cocktail revving up The Savoy

‘One small sip for man, one giant swig for mankind’. I’d like to imagine these were the words that came…

The man making The Ivy what it is

Dining in The Ivy recently I was, unexpectedly, reminded of eating in a small shack in Quilon on the Keralan…

Good ethics are now the real definition of luxury

Notions of luxury change all the time. Within living memory luxury was a relatively simple matter. It stood for things…

The barbers of St James’s offer a very real timeless quality

‘Montgomery ordered a pair of brushes from Truefitt. He sent a piece of German propeller, and he actually wanted the…

The barbers of St James's offer a very real timeless quality

Joe Fell visits the niche world of gentlemen’s barbers catering for lords, generals, City boys, hipsters and tourists ‘Montgomery ordered…

Review of Prom 39: Die Entführung aus dem Serail

I didn’t manage to make it to Glyndebourne this year and I’m so disappointed but now I’m simply kicking myself…

Review of Prom 39: Die Entf’hrung aus dem Serail

Melinda Hughes reviews a captivating Mozart opera that encapsulates all the wonder of the Proms I didn’t manage to make…

Negroni renaissance in full swing at Obicà

It was the count himself who suggested drinking no more than two negronis as part of an aperitivo. If not,…

Waiting for your wine to age could be ‘completely bonkers’

Above: Château Pichon Longueville Baron, whose 1996 wine is ‘in its prime’ It was a simple summer lunch à deux…

The Dolder Grand’s Epicure event is the pinnacle of the Swiss food scene

Since moving to Zurich I’ve been living in the rather luxurious shadow of the Dolder Grand. Majestically perched atop one…

London’s food delivery goes gourmet

London has gone food delivery crazy. The start-up gods, app wizards and foodie fanatics have ordained that London should follow…