General

In Hope of an Arts and Crafts Revival

Grandiloquent Designs
 
Just what was it that made Arts and Crafts homes so different, so appealing? An uncannily contemporary combination of high specs and hair-shirt morality, says Clive Aslet 

View From 1A: From Moscow to Manila

Land of the Rising Sum

At 30,000 feet between Moscow and Manila, peripatetic property panjandrum John Hitchcox reflects on why — however scrambled his personal compass — these days all signs point East 

Property Guru Sergey Sander on Relocating Russian and Asian HNWs to Switzerland

Sander Castles

Russian and Asian HNWs need more help buying property in the likes of Switzerland than estate agents provide. This is where Sergey Sander comes in, says Christopher Silvester 

Interior Designer Vivien Greenock on Quality, Taste and Shunning the Limelight

Lady of the Cloth

Vivien Greenock has made a celebrated career out of discreet good taste in her interior design. In a rare interview, she talks to William Cash about disappearing behind her clients, including Oscar de la Renta and John Fairchild, and why substandard fabric just won’t do

Rubenstein on One Sandy Lane

A Residence Apart
 
Who lives in a house like this? William Cash is sure that there are billionaires out there ready to be seduced by One Sandy Lane’s infinite charms

Vaishaly and the Unstoppable Rise of the Super Facialist

Caroline Phillips meets the 'Queen of Facials' and discovers why, despite global economic gloom, the high-end beauty industry is positively glowing 

CEO Jean-Marc Jacot on the Secret of Parmigiani's Success

A Mark of Quality

Parmigiani Fleurier CEO Jean-Marc Jacot tells Spear’s the secrets behind the brand’s success, from Bugatti to Beijing, and reveals how it’s building for the future 

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

Fur Returns to Men's Fashion

Fur What its Worth

Nick Foulkes examines the hair-raising comeback of fur in men’s fashion and finds a silver lining

Grief Encounter

Andrei Navrozov remembers his tormented and ultimately tragic college chum Nicholas Hervey, the not-quite Marquess of Bristol 

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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