A Hidden Gem: Saffire in Tasmania
Hidden Gem An elegant Tasmanian eco-lodge, Saffire is shown off to perfection in a magnificent setting — even if the…
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Editor's Letter: Issue 25
With the arrival of spring (at some point) comes Spear’s Art & Collecting Special. As prices at the very highest…
ByArt Behind Closed Doors in Rome
Rome, Open City (By Appointment) The bad news? Many of Rome’s finest works of art are behind closed doors in…
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Into the London Silver Vaults
Silver Foulkes Nick Foulkes finds the antique splendours of the London Silver Vaults untarnished since his last visit and considerably…
ByGergiev and the Nature of Fame
Louder, Maestro! Andrei Navrozov wonders why Gergiev isn’t a bigger noise in Italy and ponders the nature of fame, from…
ByElite Traveler Announces World’s Top 100 Restaurants
From molecular gastronomy to the classic coq au vin, elite dining is one of the biggest joys of a private…
ByAll Aboard Laurent-Perrier’s ‘The Dinner’ on the Orient Express
Emily Rookwood gets carried away by the Orient Express – and by the ‘The Dinner’, Laurent-Perrier’s new evening of champagne…
ByMark Bedini of Fine+Rare on Wine, the Internet and Chinese Consumers
Mark Bedini founded online wine brokers Fine+Rare in 1997 and has since grown into a £60 million business enabling wine…
ByOur Letter to the Prime Minister
Dear Prime Minister, With the imminent publication of the revised National Planning Policy Framework, we are writing to urge protection…
ByAn HNW ABC
The fourth instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a dictionary for the super-wealthy Jaguar: Is it a car? Is it a…
ByEating Out in Austerity Britain, Present Gluts and HNW Dealers
Chips with Everything We’re eating out less and are being more selective over our dinner guests — and new micro-technology…
ByFrom William Cash: The Dirty Secret of the Planning Appeal System
If Greg Clark, the planning minister in charge of revising the NPPF, does not tighten protection for the approx just…
ByOnly Heritage Preservation Can Keep Britain Great
Keeping Britain Great One of the reasons that David Cameron and George Osborne were in Davos was to attend a…
ByMarlon Abela Toasts Spring and Tastes Sauvignon Blancs
Spring Loaded Marlon Abela is skin-full of the joys of spring — ah, floral notes with a hint of sunny…
ByPheasant Shooting With the Brains Behind the Brompton Bar & Grill
Fowl is Fair William Sitwell plays away from home, lands half a dozen tasty Irish birds, and in the process…
ByFortune’s Spear
Fortune’s Spear: The Story of the Blue-Blooded Rogue behind the Most Notorious City Scandal of the 1920s Martin Vander Weyer…
ByMagpies, Squirrels and Thieves
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World Jacqueline Yallop Atlantic Books, 320 pp Reviewed by Mark Le…
ByBettina Von Hase from Nine AM on Art, Patronage and Non-Elitism
Number Von Lady’s Aesthetic Agency Great contacts, German efficiency and a strain of diplomacy that runs in the family have…
ByPhilanthropy, Multiculturalism and Contemporary Art in Sydney
Didgeridoodles A perfect storm of money, mature multiculturalism and matter-of-fact Aussie audacity, gathering for years, has burst over the Contemporary…
By3D Printing and Cutting-Edge Design
They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To Nicole Swengley on the multi-layered possibilities of ‘additive manufacturing’, the astonishing 3D…
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