General
It's Highclere: Buy a Nose!
Zain Alatas discovers that buying a share in a horse needn’t be like burning £50 notes — in fact, it’s worth putting a bet on a Highclere syndicate
Setting Hay on Fire
Spear’s was a media partner for HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s first philosophy and music festival. Bianca Brigitte Bonomi reports back from some incendiary intellectual clashes
Dottore Death
Wanna get someone whacked in Sicily? Easy. Just send them to a local GP, says Andrei Navrozov
The Kindest Cut
Penelope Bennett meets the Swiss plastic surgeon who is transforming the face of medicine in Ivory Coast at the hospital he built
Sunshine and Somerset
You sense that Lady Cosima's black book - compiled with skill and every social grace over the years - is one of Concierge London's chief attractions
Walpole Brands of Tomorrow 2010 announced
Walpole, the trade body that represents the British luxury industry, whose members include; Dunhill, Asprey, Burberry, Fortnum & Mason, Goodwood, Harrods and Jimmy Choo today announces the seven new brands that could become tomorrow’s global luxury leaders.
Papillon
Celebrating the launch of their new flagship store, Papillon co-owners Felicia Brocklebank, Maggie Snouck and Nicole Robinson were joined by the cream of London’s mothers and children for a fairytale extravaganza.
Louis Vuitton Maison
The new Louis Vuitton Maison - 'superstore' doesn't quite cut it, and nothing of 1500 square metres can be called a boutique - had its official celebrity opening last night on New Bond Street. (Alexa Chung turning up to your party is the equivalent of breaking a bottle of champagne over a ship's bow.)
FT: Italian govt seizing superyachts
Rome's crackdown on suspected tax dodgers has unsettled owners of super-yachts considering Italy as a summer destination following the tax police's seizure of the 63-metre Force Blue owned by tycoon Flavio Briatore.
Books
Dead End Gene Pool
Christopher Silvester
Gentlemen & Blackguards
Nicholas Foulkes
Free the Markets!
Josh Spero
HNW Events
In Pursuit of Luxury
18 June 2010
Sotheby's
22 June 2010
Emergency Budget
22 June 2010
Christie's
23 June 2010
The Diary
Lord Marland
25 Mar 2010
David Linley
17 Dec 2009
Anthony Haden-Guest
14 Sep 2009
Caroline Michel
13 May 2009
Andrew Roberts
24 Feb 2009



