Luxury Ski Company Offers VIP Collection

VIP, a bespoke luxury ski chalet company is enhancing service levels in a number of its chalets in the French Alps for the forthcoming winter season 2009/2010 with a new VIP Platinum Collection. The new company will offer personal chefs who will liaise directly with guests prior to their skiing holiday so that bespoke menus…
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Cruising For A Brewsing

Gawd bless you, ma’am. Sixty years of anything is worth celebrating, let alone sixty years in the same job. It’s no wonder then that so many companies are marking the Diamond Jubilee with special editions or limited edition releases. Most we can take or leave. When luxury loose tea experts Tea Horse got in on…
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LUSSO’s Flight Editor Dave Unwin on Why Buying Your Own Jet Is Actually Rather Sensible

Why own your own aircraft? Well, if you subscribe to the old adage that time is money, then Europe’s antiquated transportation system is probably costing you a small fortune. Let’s face it, surface transport in Europe is becoming ever more impractical. The roads are reaching gridlock while the rail network is suffering from years of…
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Cape Town

“This cape is the most stately thing,” Sir Francis Drake wrote in his journal in 1580. “The fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth.” Who am I to question Sir Francis? But I thought I’d better hop in a helicopter just to be sure. We circle over Table Mountain, spot a…
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Rebecca Scott Celebrate a Decade of Design

Rebecca Scott is the husband and wife team of Scott and Rebecca Glazebrook, who founded the company 10 years ago, have produced some of the most stunning items of furniture we’ve seen. The fact they’re manufactured in the UK makes them even more appealing. LUSSO took a closer look. The company was established on the…
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The Kempinski Hotel Aqaba opens in Red Sea Jordan

With 201 luxury rooms and suites, a variety of international cuisine and a stunning spa, the Hotel Aqaba has opened on the golden shores of the Red Sea. All of the hotel’s rooms and suites have sea views and it is the third Kempinski property in the area. Kempinski specialise in luxury hotels and have…
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Cassa NYC

Unless they suddenly get greedy, the owners of New York’s Cassa Residences should make pretty good money for the next 15 years. Cassa’s smart, not grand. It’s not asking you to pay for some fancy marble – there isn’t any. It’s not asking you to pay for the view – there isn’t one of those…
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Italian Stallions – Panerai and Ferrari

Like every reader of LUSSO, I can tell the difference between a Pouilly Fuissé and a Pouilly Fumé without inhaling. I can distinguish between Gucci and Pucci with my eyes closed. I am, in other words, so profoundly sophisticated and so preternaturally cool that it sometimes gives me a headache. But very occasionally I wake…
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The Fight Against Time

Not because of the weather and shortened daylight hours, although the former has been particularly frightful this year. No, November signals something much worse, it is the month of my birth and therefore cannot possibly fail to remind me of my fast approaching senility, along with the distinct possibility that Roger, as he never fails…
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