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Frankie Dunn
Award winning luxury in spa form? Sounds like our kind of thing… You know you’re doing well when not one, not two, but three of your spas win awards from the World Luxury Spa Awards. Good job, Jumeirah Group! The global luxury hotel company and member of Dubai Holding boasts (amongst many other equally as…
Automobili Lamborghini celebrates 50 years of legends with the exclusive Aventador LP 720-4 50° Anniversario. Launched at the Shanghai Auto Show, the Aventador LP is the very latest (and very yellow) limited edition of Lamborghini’s flagship ride. The design differences might not be immediately obvious, but take a look at the facts and all will become…
The 1914 Indian Model F, once owned by King of Cool Steve McQueen, is to be sold by Bonhams as part of the annual International Classic MotorCycle Show. On Sunday 28th April 2013, Stafford will see 242 motorcycles of note – many coming from private collections – go under the hammer. McQueen’s bike is a…
Hope we didn’t get you too excited there… Lamborghini do indeed have a new look, but we’re talking website, not vehicle. Now almost as sleek and shiny as our own, the site revamp was in honour of the company’s 50th Anniversary and now features an online store for super fans. With the Spring/Summer 2013 Collection…
The festival-conscious amongst you will probably be aware that tickets to glorious Glastonbury are now sold out. To be fair, they usually do after about five minutes and considering the line-up – everyone from The Rolling Stones and Elvis Costello to Cat Power and Mumford and Sons – it comes as no surprise at all.…
No doubt one of the stunning jewels of modern Marrakech, Palais Namaskar (all Feng Shui, private villas and glistening waterfalls) celebrates its first birthday this month. A very worthy member of the Oetker Collection, the idyllic resort has invited three top chefs from its sister hotel – Le Bristol in Paris – to pop across…
Thinking of commissioning a portrait of yourself, your better half, your little darlings, or (hell! Why not?) your handsome hound? Read on… This May will see Britain’s most reputable portraitists exhibit alongside one another at the Mall Galleries near Trafalgar Square for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ impressive annual exhibition. With around 100 artists…
For LUSSO readers, Luxe speaks in a familiar voice. There’s no tedious travel guide drone here. Friendly and funny, their city guides are the wealthy man’s Lonely Planet. Rather than budget hostels and cheap eats, these chaps show you the crème de la crème of your chosen city. With the world moving so fast these…
Julia Clancey is a nomadic wonder. She floats between New York, LA and London exactly the same way she has floated through her eventful life. This daughter of York has succeeded at everything she’s tried her hand at to date, thanks to – I’m told – a combination of bloody hard work and a spot…
They say that you can tell a lot about a man by his iPhone case… a classic rubber Incase number? Sensible. No case? Lives on the edge. A case made of solid gold? Pretty damn special indeed. When clients requested a gold iPhone case that wasn’t simply plated, Brikk didn’t scoff in their faces –…