The Good Life

General

Spear's Design for Living Awards 2012

Design can and should be applied to all and any aspects of a life well-lived and the wide range of categories in the Spear’s Design for Living Awards reflect this

Hong Kong Airlines to launch all Club Class flights

Hong Kong Airlines has taken delivery of its first all Club Class Airbus A330-200 passenger aircraft ahead of the launch of the flagship London route, and the first of 30 Airbus A320s to operate within Asia

New York Needs an Annabel's Style Nightclub

Boite the Heck?

Sure, the Beatrice was good, clean, grungy fun, but let’s face it, New York is crying out for a proper, grown-up, Annabel’s-style nightclub, says Daisy Prince 

Travel

Spear's Spa Selection: The Edge in Bali

Heights of Luxury Enjoy clifftop comfort at the Edge in Bali ...  

Heights of Luxury

Enjoy clifftop comfort at the Edge in Bali 

Spear's Spa Selection: MesaStila in Java

Jungle Booking MesaStila in Java is the calmest of retreats despite the volcanic surroundings...  

Jungle Booking

MesaStila in Java is the calmest of retreats despite the volcanic surroundings

Spear's Spa Selection: Viva Mayr 

Viva Mayr is no typical spa retreat — but if you want the ultimate in...  

Viva Mayr is no typical spa retreat — but if you want the ultimate in health, head for Austria

Spotlight

Melinda Hughes

Murmurs, QEH

We older more cynical spectators are left marvelling not only at her elegance

Food & Wine

Win a Bottle of Laurent-Perrier Champagne and a Handcrafted Aiguière

Spear's understands that not everyone springs into this dark month, which is why we have joined forces with Laurent-Perrier to bring a little sparkle to your January. We are giving one reader the chance to win a bottle of Laurent-Perrier's prestigious Grand Siècle and handcrafted Aiguière

Ultra: The Very Best in Luxe Living for 2011 and Forecasts for 2012

Annus Luxurious

There’s nothing like the luxury of hindsight — unless it’s the luxury of looking forward to even more luxury in the future. John Arlidge reviews the best of 2011 and the prospects for 2012

Vitalie Taittinger on Family, History and Exporting Champagne to China

In Vino Vitalie
 
Vitalie Taittinger’s family liked the champagne so much they bought the company and gave it their name. The effervescent heiress spills all to Josh Spero 

Motoring

Guardian: Bentley sales move into fifth gear in 2011

Luxury carmaker Bentley snubbed the economic gloom with a sparkling set of figures for 2011, powered by rising sales to China and the United States

Linley? Bentley? Absolutely!

Not too many days start off in a Bentley (or end in a Bentley, or indeed have anything to do with a Bentley), so it was a treat this morning to see and sit in the new Bentley Flying Spur with interiors by Linley

All Passion Spent

Nick Foulkes on how the wheels came off his posh-car fetish and why his dream ride is now a Moke

 Spear's Salon

Books

Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour

Michael Lewis

Kyle Bass, a Texas-based hedge-fund manager who did well out of shorting the sub-prime property market before the 2008 financial crisis, used to play the international strategy board game Risk as a kid, which led him to find out everything about a tiny country called Iceland, which was a key strategic location in the game

The Gentry: Stories of the English

Adam Nicolson

How delicious the notion of the gentry is. How beautifully it shades into every kind of 19th-century fraudulence, into Eric Hobsbawm’s Invention of Tradition. How easily it locks on to the much later and altogether more middle-class idea of the gentleman

Zahawi and Hancock on 'Masters of Nothing'

Anne McElvoy

The Wide Blue Yonder

A new breed of Tory MPs emerged from the 2010 general election, and already some are making their mark. Anne McElvoy looks at two of Cameron’s cabal

The Diary

Mark Hix

04 Jan 2012

Amanda Palmer 

22 Nov 2011

Patrick Perrin

11 Oct 2011

Nicky Haslam

05 Aug 2011

Stephen Webster

06 Jul 2011