Luxury

 
The Goodwood Revival will mark 60 years of one of Formula 1’s most iconic machines, the Maserati 250F, with one of the largest ever on-track collections of the car at the September 12-14 event.
As many as 16 examples of the 250F will take part in the Richmond Trophy, which this year will feature 2.5-litre, front-engined grand prix cars of a kind that raced from 1954 to 1960. Among them is one of only two of the V12-engined versions of the machine ever built.
 

Simon West is the celebrated British director of big budget action movies such a Con Air, The Incredibles 2, The General's Daughter, Tomb Raider and The Mechanic amongst others. He has worked with a stellar cast of Hollywood actors, such as Bruce Willis, Angelina Jolie, Sylvestor Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Jason Statham and many more.

 
QuizTrail launches new treasure hunt style platform and app with exclusive History Trails from Dan Snow. Learn and discover more about your city and favourite places, win Prizes and get out and about with QuizTrail.

In today’s “celebrity culture”, images of famous people are inescapable, staring back at us from the covers of glossy magazines to the clothes we wear. In a country where there is no such concept as image rights, is it possible to run foul of the law when using famous faces to endorse your products? Alan Ma investigates with reference to a recent High Court case.

As venues go one would be hard pressed to beat the surroundings of the 5-star May Fair Hotel in the heart of London’s West End just a stones throw from Bond Street and Piccadilly. This historic 406-room hotel located on Stratton Street was first opened in 1927 by King George V and Queen Mary in attendance. A plaque in the foyer records the event.
 

Yves de Contades Interviews Ian Stewart FRS
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Digital Media Fellow
Mathematician, broadcaster, science writer, science fiction writer
Research Interests: Dynamical systems, bifurcation theory, pattern formation, biomathematics
IX - Where does your love of mathematics come from?
IS - I enjoyed maths at school. I had a wonderful maths teacher who
spent lots of his free time showing a few of us interesting maths outside the syllabus. I also read Martin Gardner's column in Scientific American regularly.

‘Masterpiece’ is a very apt title for arguably the most impressive exhibition following on in late June in the Royal Hospital Gardens from the Chelsea Flower Show; it now has its place in the ‘English Summer season’ as it has assumed the status of the former Grosvenor Fair.
 

Why Invest in Germany? To make money of course!
 
Last week I attended a Germany Trade & Invest GmbH (GTAI) event at the Victory & Services Club near Marble Arch. GTAI, the foreign trade and inward investment agency of the Federal Republic of Germany, is I confess not a body that I’ve had that much familiarity with prior to meeting their representatives in London. What unfolded was nevertheless interesting and should interest British investors considering ploughing capital into Germany - especially the tech sector in Eastern Germany.
 

International eXcellence takes a look at Michael Brooks’ latest book “At The Edge of Uncertainty” out now.
Michael Brooks, who holds a PhD in quantum physics, is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He is a consultant at New Scientist, a magazine with over three quarters of a million readers worldwide,and writes  a weekly column for the New Statesman. He is the author of At The Edge of Uncertainty, The Secret Anarchy of Science and the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things That Don't Make Sense.

Marking the first time in the history of the House of Rémy Martin’s for departing and new Cellar Masters to visit the UK side by side, a group of selected guests and members of the press were invited to 34 restaurant in London’s Mayfair this June to bid farewell to Pierrette Trichet, renowned former Cellar Master, and to celebrate the appointment of 33-year old Baptiste Loiseau, the House’s new Cellar Master.