Luxury

Goodwood Festival of Speed is delighted to announce that the car Bugatti call “the world’s most powerful, fastest, most luxurious and most exclusive production super sports car,” will be making its UK dynamic debut at the world’s most luxurious motoring celebration.  
After its global premiere at this year’s Geneva International Motor Show, Festival of Speed visitors will to be able to get up close to this incredible car, named after Monegasque racing driver Louis Chiron, as it prepares to tear up the infamous Goodwood hill.

It’s perhaps ironic that with Iceland having one of the lowest murder rates in the world, the local population is lapping up crime fiction by Icelandic and foreign novelists in the murder mystery genre. You just have to compare homicides in Reykjavik to Caracas. In fact the murder rate in Iceland is twenty times lower than the world average according to the ‘Homicide Map’ from Brazilian think tank Igarapé.
 

Aston Martin and Formula One team Red Bull Racing have announced a partnership which sees Red Bull Racing’s Chief Technical Officer, Adrian Newey and Aston Martin’s Chief Creative Officer, Marek Reichman collaborate to produce a ground-breaking Aston Martin hypercar.

Codenamed Project ‘AM-RB 001’, the new hypercar will represent the ultimate blend of cutting edge F1TM technology with Aston Martin’s signature sports car design.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry came together with charity Mind to launch their ambitious new campaign Heads Together at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London to change the way we talk about our mental health and wellbeing.   
 

If you looked up the word ‘style’ in the dictionary you might just find Bryan Ferry. Well, perhaps when the lexicographers get round to updating their records. And, if Ferry’s shows at the Grade-II listed London Palladium were anything to go by late this April - before he and his band headed off across to tour Europe and onward to North America - you can still see he has still got it.
 

RocketSpace today announced plans to open a state-of-the-art campus in London, designed specifically for high-growth tech startups. The tech campus will be RocketSpace’s first international location, enabling the San Francisco-based company to provide startup members and corporate clients with global access to its unique community and services. Since launching in 2011, RocketSpace members have included more than 750 tech startups and 16 unicorns including Uber, Blippar, SuperCell and Spotify.

To the layman, Colombian emeralds have always been touted as being the best of the best, up there in mystique with Golconda diamonds, Burmese rubies and Kashmiri sapphires. However, to add interest to the mix and not a little confusion, African (and especially Zambian) emeralds have carved out a considerable niche in the jewellery world.

Matthew Lloyd-Winder, a South Mimms-based stained glass artist who coined the term 'Winderlite', displays his extraordinary illuminated stained glass work at the Grand Designs Live at London's ExCel centre in Docklands this week until Sunday 8 May 2016. The artist’s appearance at this year’s show follows up his stand at the same event in 2015 where his innovative and cutting-edge pieces of work were also on display.

It is surprising that John Markey became a race driver, given that he was 13 before his family owned a car, his father hated driving and his mother never drove. Maybe that is what created such a desire to drive and to drive fast?

Givori, the luxury smartphone designer, has expanded its range to include Android-powered devices with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge ‘Carbon’ series. It is all designed and touted to combine “masculine design” and exotic leather with the latest in smartphone technology to deliver that “opulent mobile experience” - at a price of nearly $2,000 a pop.