As a dinner guest, embarking upon a multi-course tasting menu at a well-regarded restaurant can be an intimidating experience. What’s the appropriate protocol if there’s something being served that you don’t like? How do you politely leave a course untouched if your pants are bursting at the seams? And ... More

Take a quick glance at the façade of Paris’ Hôtel Plaza Athénée—with its vibrant red geraniums dripping down over quaint Juliet balconies—and you might be fooled into believing that not much has changed since the property’s debut in 1913. But inside, it’s a different story. The famed hotel recently reemerged from ... More

Hermès, Saint Louis, Puiforcat and renowned cognac brand Louis XIII have created three custom trunks in their ultra-luxe L’Odyssée d’un Roi collaboration, celebrating Louis XIII’s compelling history of travel. The trunks, which house a bespoke cognac decanter and stunning ... More

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Officially christened “Place de Cartier,” the corner of 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue came alive with the infectious energy of New York Fashion Week last night. Stars dotted the crowd that stretched from the red carpet into the Cartier Mansion and up a grand staircase ascending four stories of ... More

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Steps away from the famed Portobello Road and just around the corner from Kensington palace, on a gorgeously unassuming tree-lined street, five row homes have been lovingly and masterfully restored into our new favorite London hotel, The Laslett.  Opened in late summer 2015, under the watchful eye of architect Tom ... More

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This spring, 33 lions were flown on a chartered wide-body jetliner from Colombia and Peru to Johannesburg. Last year, 10 rhinos—the most ever on a plane at one time—were boarded onto a four-engine cargo plane in South Africa and transported north to Botswana. Up to three times a week, a ... More