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When client expectations go beyond mere specs, aspiring to “aesthetic immortality” akin to iconic landmark hotels like Le Bristol or La Mamounia, there are only a handful of elite firms in contention. With the recent debut of The Maybourne Riviera, perched next to Monaco, award-winning multidisciplinary design and delivery studio Rigby & Rigby has shaken up this list of usual suspects. Poised on one of the most prized real estate parcels on the Côte d’Azur, this marks the first hotel in France for the Maybourne Hotel Group—think Claridge’s, The Connaught, The Berkeley, and the Maybourne Beverly Hills. This new ingénue of the Riviera swanned onto the World’s 50 Best Hotels List for 2023. The deep pockets behind the project are as blue chip as they come; the Louise Bourgeois sculpture…

In the glittering cosmos of interwebs, blonde beauty Summer Soderstrom isn’t your conventional model; she’s a symphony of elegance, beauty, and a sizzling magnetism that’s impossible to resist. Once discovered by a modeling agency in Los Angeles, her trajectory to stardom skyrocketed, soon garnering her over one million followers on Instagram. But with looks as captivating as hers, Summer’s rapid ascent to fame was hardly a shocker. She stands tall with sunkissed blonde locks reminiscent of spun gold, a physique that embodies the epitome of beauty, and a towering presence that commands attention effortlessly. Yet, amidst the envious aesthetics, it’s her well-rounded charm that truly seals the deal. “I grew up pretty quickly from a young age and had to learn how to be responsible, so I have a good…

“Director, photographer, author, storyteller, stylist, model, provocateur”—Ellen von Unwerth has done it all in her impressive 50-year career. So it’s no surprise that SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, the country’s premier venue for the convergence of these two fields, located at SCAD Atlanta—a branch of the iconic Savannah College of Art and Design—recently celebrated her with a wide-ranging exhibition. SCAD FASH “celebrates fashion as a universal language, garments as important conduits of identity, and film as an immersive and memorable medium of popular culture,” and no one can argue that the German-born image-maker, whose name alone is so evocative, has had a massive impact on these realms of popular culture. “Ellen von Unwerth is one of the industry’s most enigmatic personalities and photographers—her style is truly one-of-a-kind,…

Historians recognize the nebulous “Sea People” as the theorized destroyers of the Bronze Age, a borderless congregation of oceangoing folk who banded sails to wreak havoc across the Eastern Mediterranean, from the Levant to Egypt and deep into the fertile crescent. It has long been speculated that the ancient Nuragic Civilization was not only among, but one of the spearheads of, this vaguely named nautical pestilence. Inhabitants of Sardinia, the Nuragic were as mysterious as they were feared some 3,300 years ago. This lost civilization stays close in mind when slicing through Sardinia, especially when passing the nuraghe, the crumbling fortress/towers of the Nuragic. These spectacular ruins, still somehow shockingly intact as they rise into the horizon, remind you that we too are here to raze the Mediterranean landscape—except forget…

For a young Luuc Muis growing up in The Netherlands, the art of motorcycle design seemed predestined from birth, arguably programmed into his very DNA. The son of a professional graphic designer, his dad trained Luuc in the aesthetic arts on two fronts: digitally training skills in Adobe software like Photoshop and Illustrator, while also ensuring his son earned grease under his fingernails working on a vintage Volvo in the garage. Wrenching bolts and saturating pixels, a twinpronged approach. By the ripe age of 12 Luuc began working Saturdays sweeping floors at a custom motorcycle shop, combining lessons learned from hours glued to the Discovery channel with tooling around in the store’s robust tool shed. Soon the nascent Dutch builder was engineering and manufacturing his very own stretched chopper pedal…

The Oxford English Dictionary long maintained that the Martini cocktail derived its name from Martini & Rossi vermouth; however the first mentions of the drink in print date back to well before the famed firm was founded in Turin, Italy in 1863. No matter—the two have become synonymous thanks to Martini’s mastery of the ultimate aperitif; and though these days all sorts of vermouths have crept their way into martini glasses, none have the potent blend of pedigree, purity and prestige of the Italian original. Even James Bond chose it for his shaken-notstirred vodka variation in 1962’s Dr. No. Martini & Rossi, which recently celebrated its 160th anniversary with a suitably stylish, star-studded soirée in Milan where guests included actress Dakota Johnson and mega-influencer Chiara Ferragni, is not in fact…

The bust of one Enzo Ferrari rests on the Mount Rushmore of the automotive industry, eyes forever hidden behind thick blocky sunglasses. Referred to as “il Commendatore” by those who trembled at his approach, or “il Drake” for the many who envied him, and “The Pope of the North” by the army of admirers. Libraries of books, documentaries and films have tried to capture the enigmatic aura of the man who changed the automotive landscape in ways few, if any, have. We’ll do our best to sketch an outline. Born on February 18, 1898, in the small city of Modena just before the dawning of the 20th century, Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari was born. The family lived simply but happily above his father Alfredo’s metal workshop where he manufactured…

COVER: Photograph by EDWARD QUINN, edwardquinn.com, of Alain Delon and Jane Fonda arriving on the set of “Les Félins,” Antibes, France, 1964 in his Ferrari 250 GT California. In 2015 Delon’s car was auctioned in Paris for a record-breaking $18.5 million. P.8: Watches by IWC, iwc.com. Limited to 44 pieces worldwide. P.10: Motorcycle by LM CREATIONS, lmcreations.eu, the Netherlands. P.14: Interior design and custom furnishings by RIGBY & RIGBY, rigbyandrigby.com. P.20: Spirits and aperitifs by MARTINI & ROSSI, martini.com. For information on booking Terrazzo Martini, visit martini.com/terrazza-martini/. P.28: SOMER SODERSTROM, @somersoderstrom. Photographed by ANTOINE VERGLAS, antoineverglas.com. P.32: Custom engraving by MELISSA MCMINN STUDIOS, melissamcminnstudios.com. P.36: Resorts from THE FAMILY COPPOLA HIDEAWAYS, thefamilycoppolahideaways.com. P.42: Exhibition presented by SCAD FASH, scadfash.org. Photographs by ELLEN VON UNWERTH, @ellenvonunwerth. P.72: FERRARI Roma, from $243,358,…

The air is festive on the outdoor terrace of LPM, the swanky Mediterranean-vibed restaurant continents away from the ripe gold lemons and plump olives of the Côte d’Azur. At The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas’ newest foodie destination, the Strip’s glowing football field-sized billboards blast a rainbow of colors onto our thinly-sliced beef tartare and sizzling escargot; the place feels decidedly otherworldly. Then comes the airstrike: the incoming screaming electrified V6 of a Formula One car at full gallop. Everyone dining pauses mid-bite as if a T-Rex smashed through the door, staring wide-eyed. What is that? A Mercedes-AMG powerplant coming? Perhaps the Hondapowered Red Bull Racing motor of Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez? Every table stands and runs to the balcony edge, and when the sound hits a fever pitch we see the…

As he tells it, famed director Francis Ford Coppola first fell in love with the jungle when shooting 1979’s Apocalypse Now with Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in the Philippines. That film netted two Academy Awards and is widely considered one of the greatest in cinematic history—rivaled only, some have said, by Coppola’s even more successful The Godfather. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Coppola has since directed 22 films and won six Oscars, and launched equally sensational careers in the worlds of wine and hospitality, the former based in Napa Valley and the latter, Belize. It is in Belize where his passion for a personal jungle paradise found fruition, as the Philippines was simply too remote. In 1993 he opened Blancaneaux Lodge, his first foray into the…

“IT’S HARD NOT TO GET PHILOSOPHICAL ABOUT AN ENGINE; [IT’S] A MOVING PIECE OF ART”ADAM DRIVER In the year 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, desegregation began at a Little Rock, Arkansas high school, and some 4,300 miles away a 15-year-old musician named Paul McCartney met John Lennon and his band The Quarrymen—soon to be renamed The Beatles. That same year, a tragic accident while Alfonso de Portago was racing in the iconic Mille Miglia at the wheel of a 4.0-litre Ferrari 335 S also had a major impact on the life of Enzo Ferrari, making it the most important milestone in his career to date, as documented in “Ferrari,” a new film from “Heat” and “The Insider” director Michael Mann. “In this one year, 1957, many of the dynamic…