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Hong Kong’s New, Creative Heart: Victoria Dockside, The $2.6 Billion USD Art And Design District
New World Development, a leader in property, retail and hotel development, last year announced its plans for Victoria Dockside, a $2.6 billion, 3 million square foot art and design district, on the promenade of Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. Set to fully open in 2019, the mixed-use development will offer Grade A office space, an ultra-luxury Rosewood Hotel, Rosewood Residences, and premier art, design and leisure experiences with views of Victoria Harbor and Hong Kong Island. But in April, 2018, Victoria Dockside’s newest event, #MakeWaves, is set to begin. It will take place at the K11 ATELIER, a creative workspace in the new Victoria Dockside neighborhood, set to reinvigorate…
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Adrian Cheng’s LUXBA Group And Luxury Footwear Label, Sergio Rossi, Announce New Growth Collaboration
LUXBA Group, Hong Kong’s leading luxury fashion brand management and distribution house, recently announced a new collaboration with Italian luxury footwear label Sergio Rossi. The new partnership focuses on accelerating Sergio Rossi’s growth in the complex China market, while also strengthening LUXBA Group’s presence in the fashion industry. Luxury brands associated with LUXBA gain invaluable insights on how Chinese millennials and Gen Z’s consume, and what they desire in luxury brands. Founded by entrepreneur Adrian Cheng in 2007, LUXBA Group is an all-encompassing fashion, lifestyle, brand management, and distribution company based in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The new collaboration allows Sergio Rossi to leverage LUXBA Group’s unique expertise to penetrate…
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A Grand Opening in Monaco: The New Sabrina Monte-Carlo and Lalique Boutique
Officially inaugurated by His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco, and designed by the Monaco-based architectural studio Humbert & Poyet, two new lifestyle boutiques, Sabrina Monte-Carlo and Lalique Monte-Carlo, opened recently. At the royal inaugural gathering, celebrating the opening of two luxury boutiques, white and Sauterne Lafaurie-Peyraguey wines were served in Lalique crystal glasses. Bollinger Champagne was served in crystal Baccarat and silver Robbe & Berking champagne glasses, all available for purchase at the Sabrina Monte Carlo and, next door, the Lalique Boutique. Both of the new boutiques share a nuanced sense of tranquility. As Sabrina Monteleone-Oeino, founder of Sabrina Monte-Carlo said, “We wanted to create environments where clients…
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From Portugal: The Persono Luxury Mattress
Portugal known for many things — Port Wine, Tapas, Fado music, ceramic tiles, but it has also become known for its exceptional sleep product, the Persono luxury mattress. Opened in 2003, Persono is a company created by a team whose sole purpose is to manufacture a mattress masterpiece. Persono offers mattress collections that have been developed to optimize comfort, all meeting the needs of the most demanding customers. As Persono’s logo states, “The mattress dimensions are what you choose — nothing is standard: the only standard is you.” The Persono mission is defined by one essential: helping the consumer sleep well. Their products are handmade, using the most advanced materials…
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Visitors To Versailles 1682-1789: A New Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibit in New York
Visitors to Versailles 1682–1789, a popular exhibit originally opened at the Château de Versailles in France, will move to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue in New York and will be on display from April 16–July 29, 2018. This exhibit is a significant compilation of what visitors and travelers to Versailles would have seen and experienced during this crucial time in French history as well as daily life at Versailles. The exhibition is the first on this subject and will turn the spotlight on these visitors through more than 300 works from the late 17th century to the French Revolution. With portraits and sculptures, Court attire, travel guides, tapestries,…
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News of the Concours d’Elégance Suisse 2018
Concours d’Elégance Suisse Returns Reviving a Swiss tradition dating back to 1927 in Geneva, the Concours d’Elégance Suisse will celebrate the Automobile Heritage and the art of mechanical engineering from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th June 2018 in the elegant setting of the grounds of the Château de Coppet, historic home of Madame de Staël, offering a panoramic view of the Mont-Blanc and Lake Geneva. The Concours d’Elégance Suisse will display a selection of spectacular classic automobiles rarely seen in public. This year, thanks to two new partnerships with Julius Baer Private Bank and Breitling, the high-end timepiece company, the Concours d’Elégance will be expanding its activities, and inviting its…
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The CAMA Gallery of Iranian Art, Opens A New Gallery In London
Artist: Bita Vakili The CAMA Gallery Of Iranian Art in Teheran has become a new international market leader in Modern and Contemporary Iranian art. Their success has been so substantial that CAMA has recently announced the opening of their new London gallery, with an inaugural exhibition of nineteen contemporary Iranian artists. The exhibition, entitled “Sensation” is dedicated to the various works of artistic luminaries from Iran. While the works of all the artists are vastly diverse in theme and style ranging from hyper-realistic painting to calligraphy, each piece selected is focused on stimulating all the senses of the viewer. The artists whose work are exhibited are Bita Vakili, Meghdad Lorpour, Behrang…
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An Homage to Culture With A Cinematic Flow: The Baku Flame Towers In Azerbaijan
If there has ever been a country defined by wealth and power, in both positive and challenging ways, it is Azerbaijan. Though independent now, the country has been occupied by multiple conquering hordes: those of Cyrus The Great, Alexander The Great, the Seljuks, the Mongols, the Persians, the Russians, the Ottomans and the Soviets. But since 1991, Azerbaijan is free, and exceptionally wealthy due to their vast oil and gas reserves. The country is on the western tip of the Caspian Sea, and is literally at the crossroads between Western Asia and Eastern Europe, as it borders Russia to the North; Georgia and Armenia to the West and Iran to…
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Nature, Nurture, Legacy, and Elks: The Promontory Club Luxury Experience Park City, Utah
In Utah, the word Promontory has a special meaning, as it often relates to Promontory Summit, where the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was officially completed on May 10, 1869. It was there the railheads of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads finally came together, combining east and west at Promontory Summit in Northern Utah. But to the developer Francis Najafi, the meaning of the word had a more symbolic context. Though it also defined a joining of east and west, it also defined a joining of nature and nurture, of family gathering and family solace. These were the roots of Mr. Najafi’s vision that became…
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Old Roots, New Leaves: The New Park MGM Las Vegas
The evolution, then the process, of re-imagining one thing into another can be a lengthy process. And when it comes to the creation of a new hotel based on the foundations of an established one, the process can be even more complex on multiple levels. The levels often involve repurposing, redevelopment, and rebranding combined. The renowned Monte Carlo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, opened in 1996, is a recent example. Its process of redevelopment began in 2015, and now by March of 2018, will officially be recreated into a new entity: the new Park MGM Las Vegas. Recently, we saw what had been done and what was planned. Most of the hotel’s…
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Waterways Wellness: AmaWaterways Expands Onboard Wellness Program
According to Virtuoso® the leading international travel agency network specializing in luxury and experiential travel, wellness travel is a trend that will grow exponentially in 2018. Especially, for those who find a unique type of active tranquility in river cruising, the wellness component is crucial, as those who travel on river cruises hope for a kind of respite that traveling on water often brings, allowing for greater harmony, recalibration, and spiritual repurposing. Ideally, the river journey often combines greater destination immersion, combined with a wellness journey of inward enrichment. It is for these reasons that AmaWaterways recently announced that the company’s already popular Wellness Program – tested earlier in 2017…
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Entrepreneur and business innovator Adrian Cheng makes significant investment in Moda Operandi
The entrepreneur and business innovator, Adrian Cheng has made a significant investment in Moda Operandi – the only online luxury fashion retailer to provide consumers access to collections straight from the runway. The injection of capital is led by Cheng through his two investment vehicles, K11 Investment and C Ventures. The latter is a new investment fund launched in October 2017 to build a global ecosystem of Millennial and Generation Z-focused brands and platforms. The investment in Moda Operandi plays into Cheng’s wider vision to unite culture-orientated brands into a powerful portfolio that connects the worlds of fashion, art, and creative media, to service the demands of next-generation consumers. Cheng’s…
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Savoring the Tastes of European Christmas Markets
The coming of winter is often a happy time, as defines a well-earned rest from all forms of Harvest, and to celebrate holiday gatherings. Synchronously, it is also a time when, due to cold and snow, every cell enlivens upon seeing twinkling lights on Holiday trees and wreaths, coupled the scent of good food everywhere. It is also a time where many European River cruise lines sail to the many European Christmas Markets, taking their guests to discover the Christmas Market spirit on the major rivers of Europe, especially the Rhine and the Danube. Viking River Cruises, AMA Waterways, and others take to these rivers during the season of Advent,…
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Disruption, Innovation and Fusion: An Interview With Adrian Cheng
Adrian Cheng, the young Chinese cultural entrepreneur, melds East and West so well: he was born in China, completed his higher education at Harvard, is under 40 (born in 1979.) He is the grandson and designated heir of one of Hong Kong’s and China’s most influential business families, and is set to inherit a large part of the family empire that include the Chow Tai Fook jewellery chain and New World Development group, among others. The family’s controls companies with a total market value of $25 billion. But his interests and goals appear more extensive and diverse than just managing an empire that his forbears created. Hi interests involve the…
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The Wonder of Under: Snøhetta’s First Underwater Restaurant in Europe
At the southernmost point of the Norwegian coastline by the village of Båly, in the Lindesness area, Snøhetta, a world renowned architecture group, has designed Europe’s very first underwater restaurant, called UNDER. There are underwater restaurants in other areas of the world, but Under will be Europe’s first. With its immediate proximity to the ocean’s underwater world, the restaurant will also function as a research center for marine life. It is an architectural tribute to the Norwegian coast – and to its colourful, various undersea life. Under will open in early 2018. Under’s namesake holds a double meaning in Norwegian: ‘under’ can also be translated as ‘wonder.’ Half-sunken into the…
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