Archive for the ‘Luxury’ Category

Friday Favourites

Just a few of the best things we’ve stumbled across this week in our Friday Favourites.

Friday Favourites

Barbie and Vitra, light calligraphy, Dior games, Red Bull Rockets and more in our Friday Favourites.

Hermès’ Festival des Métiers in Singapore

The iconic French luxury brand Hermès brought its celebrated Festival des Métiers, or Festival of Crafts, to Singapore last week, and I went down to take a look.

Favourites found this week

Some of the best things we’ve found this week, all a bit video focused for some reason. We haven’t just been sitting around watching videos all week, honest..

Reviving old habits: what can whisky learn from gin?

The term Revivalism has been coined over the last 12 months to capture a mood in some developed markets towards simpler, traditional pastimes and hobbies. In an over-communicated digital age urban dwellers are becoming interesting in local initiatives and reviving and adapting rural practices into their busy urban lifestyles.

Old tricks from new whisky brands

It was to the envy of all I told that I headed to the World Whiskies Conference in Glasgow last week. What better way to spend two days than discussing and tasting the hallowed firewater?

Posted on Apr 21st 2011 by Nick G · Permalink · One Comment
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin…

T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse….. Everyone loves a good story at Christmas time and according to Nielsen Bookscan, the Christmas period is the most lucrative for the book selling industry.  By value, one fifth of book sales are made in the run-up [...]

Posted on Dec 8th 2010 by Katie · Permalink · One Comment
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Do we need Starbucks' single estate coffee?

‘We mustn’t waste the opportunity of this crisis’. That was Barack Obama’s message to Americans in 2008. Some people thought that global belt tightening brought on by the recession would change consumer behaviour – for the better. We would be shocked into a more sustainable way of living. So what are we to make of [...]

Posted on Aug 26th 2010 by Hugh · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Beauty…but at a price

Many of us aspire to create beauty where we can. It could be in how a logo or letterform is crafted to suggest an emotive value. It might also be in how a surface is sculpted to bring elegance and ‘line’ to a product. It might even be how a mechanism is elegantly engineered to [...]

One tent too many

It’s festival season. It’s camping season. In a world where everything can be bought, the search seems to be for the unique and the intimate, the marginal and the magical. Come on, let’s go camping!

Posted on Jun 21st 2010 by Linda · Permalink · One Comment
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