Marco Lavazza
Marco Lavazza has worked in the family business all his professional life. At the age of 44, he serves as Vice President of the company, the legacy of which he feels responsible for safeguarding, as he does for leading it into the future. Lavazza is now run by the third and fourth generation of the […]
Catherine Dior
Sister to one of the most famous names in the history of fashion, Catherine Dior was a tower of strength and courage. She joined the French Resistance, was captured and tortured by the Gestapo, suffered the indescribable in concentration camps and escaped a Death March, returning to Paris a changed woman, but never broken. The […]
New Orbis Mundi
Two hundred years ago this year, Édouard Bovet, a watchmaker who learnt his trade in Switzerland, perfected it in London and made his reputation in China, decided to open his own company with his brothers, to bring luxury Swiss watches into the Chinese market. The success was immediate and extraordinary, to the point that Bovet […]
Talulah Riley
Named a “Brit to Watch” by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2011, Talulah Riley jumped to fame after playing Mary Bennet in the 2005 version of Pride & Prejudice, opposite names of the stature of Judi Dench, Donald Sutherland, Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. Talulah grew up in Hertfordshire, in a […]
It’s all about the bubbles
This is definitely the season to be merry and no drink expresses joy better than champagne. The famous beverage is thought to have been invented by the French monk Dom Pierre Perignon in 1697 when he applied his “methode champenoise” to the wines produced at the abbey of Hautvilliers. By the late 17th century, as […]
Cindy Chao
With a notorious sculptor for a father and a much-celebrated architect grandfather, it is not difficult to see how this Taiwanese jewellery designer was destined to achieve great things as a creative artist. Cindy has always had a very three-dimensional mind. Perspective, space and depth are concepts that have preoccupied her since childhood and that […]
Freezing Fabulous!
Cryotherapy is the use of low temperatures in medical therapy. It is applied to treat a variety of conditions, most commonly to relieve muscle pain, sprains and swelling after soft tissue damage or surgery. For decades, it has been employed to accelerate recovery in athletes post exercise but in the last few years, it is […]
Getting Away From It All
If you want to find the last idyllic remnants of rural England, you need only to head to postcard-pretty Broadway, in what is called “the jewel of the Cotswolds” (the corner of Worcestershire that borders Gloucestershire and Warwickshire). This is a chance to escape the slings and arrows we encounter in everyday life and instead, […]
Marek Reichman
Marek grew up in a family of car fanatics. Their passion sparked his interest on industrial design, which he developed in his university studies, specialising in Vehicle Design at the Royal College of Art in London. As Chief Creative Officer of Aston Martin Lagonda, he’s been producing one amazing machine after another for the iconic […]
Emilia Fox
Emilia made her screen debut in the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice as Colin Firth’s sister (Georgiana Darcy). In the two and a half decades since, she has become one of the most beloved actors in the UK and the star in the country’s favourite forensic drama, Silent Witness. Our editor Julia Pasarón had […]
