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Florida apartment in Mansion/The Wall Street Journal

As a 25-year-old Christy Peck probably never dreamed she would one day own a luxurious apartment on the Florida coast with expansive water views. She was living in Norman, Okla., working as a bank teller and raising a daughter by herself. Flash forward and the now 55-year-old is an emergency medicine doctor with, as the song goes, “a deluxe apartment in the sky” in Clearwater, Fla., with views of the harbor, Clearwater Beach Island and the Gulf of Mexico. To read more of this inspirational story, go here (paywall). ...

01 December, 2024
Dubai Design Week/Galerie

The Middle East’s first design event celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, drawing over 300 designers and brands from over 40 countries to the so-called “City of Gold.” The fair took place in the Waterfront Terrace of the city’s Design District—an enviable spot perched on the Persian Gulf with picture-perfect views of the growing skyline.  Said views were best enjoyed from the Veuve Cliquot Sun Club Lounge, a sprawling waterfront pop-up created by the legendary champagne house in collaboration with Studio Marcel Poulain, proffering their signature bubbles. This year also brought the debut of Editions, a fair-in-the-fair dedicated to limited-edition art and contemporary design, no doubt a nod to the growing interest in the...

27 November, 2024
Mnemba Island resort/Galerie magazine

“Barefoot luxury” is a term that gets thrown around a lot in the hospitality world, but Mnemba Island, a small resort in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Zanzibar, is a true embodiment of that phrase and all it implies. There are just 12 free-standing rooms (called “bandas”) and it’s just out of the way enough to ensure a level of discretion and privacy that has made it an ideal destination for those who value such things. Or those who simply choose to end their African safari adventures with a few nights in paradise, as Mnemba is part of the andBeyond...

24 November, 2024
Private Label London/Further Magazine

The Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 is one of the watch world’s most sought-after models. Discontinued in 2021, the classic design fetches six-figure sums on the secondary market. So if you’re lucky enough to own one, why mess with it? Why have it completely encrusted — the dial, the bezel, the bracelet band — with 21 carats of green sapphires? “I’ve got everything I want. Now I want something no one else has,” is how Alys McMahon, commercial director of watch customizer Private Label London, describes the company’s wealthy clients’ impulses. In addition to creating the gorgeous, glistening-green specimen that is the aforementioned...

12 November, 2024
Heath Ceramics new lighting collection/Forbes.com

“I wanted to challenge myself and design something that has an unexpected twist. Lighting made sense to me, explained Tung Chiang, Heath Clay Studio Director. “Light loves glass, because it’s transparent. But light and ceramic don’t gel. So the challenge is to push the ceramic so it can perform as a light.” Chiang was in New York City to introduce the collection – two sizes of table lamp and one pendant – to architects, interior designers and the press.  All were designed by Chiang, hand thrown by a small group of craftspeople in the Heath Clay Studio in San Francisco, and...

01 November, 2024
Nike exhibition at Vitra Design Museum/Forbes.com

Vitra Design Museum took a page out of Nike’s playbook and ‘Just did it.’ Over the weekend/last weekend, they debuted “Nike: Form Follows Motion,” the first-ever comprehensive museum exhibition dedicated to the design history of a company with one of the most recognizable logos in the world.  On display: over 300 artifacts from Nike’s vast archives, ranging from shoes (prototypes of now-iconic styles like the Waffle trainer, the Air Force 1, and Shox) to apparel, drawings, historical photographs, and examples from their award-winning, hard-hitting ad campaigns. Many are being shown publicly for the first time. And while 300 might sound like a...

26 October, 2024
Maria Pergay/Forbes.com

“That is my best marriage,” joked Maria Pergay about her decades-long relationship with stainless steel in a 2010 interview with this writer, published in the New York Times. “Everybody is scared of stainless steel, but we have a link — there is something deep inside between me and stainless steel. This material which looks so strong, hard, and cold is sweet and not sharp, and it matches with everything.” Pergay was 79 years old at the time and about to introduce a new collection at Demisch Danant gallery.  Read more about her incredible life here. ...

26 October, 2024
Watch Buying Advice from Experts/Alexa

I asked Carl Palmegren (head of watches for Bukowskis), Adam Craniotes (founder and president RedBar Group) and the collector who goes by Old Watch Lady on instagram a few questions about their collections and advice for those wanting to get in the game. The answers are pretty great. Read them here. ...

26 October, 2024
Photographer Cristina Mittermeier/Alexa

“It's like a wildfire is raging under the ocean and it is invisible to most people. I feel like my job is to raise the alarm and to keep saying ‘we're running out of time,’” said Cristina Mittermeier, who is considered one of the world’s most important and influential conservation photographers. The Mexican native has spent over three decades traveling to more than 130 countries and every continent as a “voice for the ocean,” visually documenting the stories of both the species in the waters and the 1 billion people who live along its shores. Read more here. ...

26 October, 2024
Cairo destination story/ELLE

There’s something about ancient civilizations that inspire and fascinate like no other: Pompeii in Italy, Machu Picchu in Peru, Petra in Jordan, and of course the pyramids of Egypt.  The latter especially is “a place that a significant amount of people around the world want to visit,” said Eric Monkaba, who customizes travel itineraries for private clients through his company, Tripscaper. Now based in Los Angeles, Monkaba lived in the middle east and north Africa, including Cairo, for over a decade. “I can’t think of anywhere else on the planet with a greater density of palpable history. Over 100 pyramids in...

26 October, 2024