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Spear's Design for Living Awards, 18 May 2011: Nominees Announced
With categories from men's bespoke tailors to flawless jewellers, the nominees for the Spear's Design for Living Awards, in association with Harrods, to be held on 18 May 2011, have been announced
Spear's Design for Living Awards
The first Spear’s Design for Living Awards, in association with Harrods, will be held on 18 May at Jack Barclay, Berkeley Square
Spear's Design for Living Awards: Winners Announced
Find the winners, nominees, guests and judges of the Spear's Design for Living Awards, in association with Harrods, in here
Top Drawer
Talking exclusively to William Cash, Viscount Linley recalls a life in furniture — and in the spotlight — as his business turns 25 and he faces 50
Victoria's Secret
Don’t be fooled by the giggles — Victoria Tryon is a serious jewellery designer with a large following in the Middle East, says Sophie McBain
Arabia Adorned
Jewellery has an important role in Arab culture, yet Middle Eastern jewellers are increasingly torn between pursuing traditional styles and embracing Western ones, says Katie Trotter
No Prams Here
Combating the enemy of creativity, William Cash has established a writers’ retreat at his Elizabethan gatehouse, as the winners of the Spear’s Book Awards will discover
That's My Bag, Baby
Is there any greater honour, any finer form of flattery than having a posh, practical and well-designed bag named after you, asks Nick Foulkes
Visions of Johannes
Listening to his wife perform Brahms transports Andrei Navrozov back to a time when no self-respecting drawing room was complete without a gleaming grand piano
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
HNW Events
Spear's/Speechly Bircham Seminar: How to be a philanthropist in the 21st century
21 February 2012
Spear's Young Turk Awards 2012
01 April 2012
Spear's Design for Living Awards 2012
01 May 2012
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum 2012
19 September 2012
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