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We started our journey in Surrey at 9 am and headed north, basking in the explosive snorts of the 710 bhp McLaren 720S engine. My colleague David and I were pretty stoked about a week in the Scottish Highlands. As Lex Luthor so aptly condescended in Superman II "A good time? Is that all you care about? North, Miss Teschmacher. North!".
Frippy Jameson (born 1978), who now lives and works in the Scottish Borders, studied Fine Art Sculpture at Camberwell College of Art and Design, but, as she explains when telling her own story, she didn’t follow the mood of that moment in the early nineties, when YBAs such as Hirst and Emin were generating all the critical excitement, controversy and headlines, with their conceptual new art.
Daniel Crane, born in Norfolk in 1969, is the youngest son of a farming family, always surrounded by animals and the countryside, with a respect and love for them both.
Luxury is ephemeral and different for everyone. For some it’s a hot bath or a luxurious massage after a long day, for others it’s a stay in a fine hotel where you are pampered and served as royalty. For brands, it is exclusivity, the use of the finest materials, the latest technology, age-old craftsmanship, skills handed down through the generations, attention to detail, exquisite engineering, hand-crafted manufacture and lastly a price that places the product or service at the very top of the market, available only to a select wealthy few.
A tenth solo show celebrates one of the world’s most admired and collected equestrian artists. Joie de vivre, draughtsmanship, and brilliant colour in the paintings of Hubert de Watrigant shine out of thirty new works at Osborne Studio Gallery, in London’s Belgravia.
Madeleine Bunbury, (born 1997) is a travelling equestrian portrait painter, classically trained in Florence; available for private commissions anywhere in the world she paints life size horses, directly from life, under a natural north light. She does not use photographs, but devised her own creative process to keep her subjects comfortable during the hours of posing ‘Sometimes 1 have to whisper to them a little’ A portrait can take as many as ten sessions.
Some of the best places to rent and sail a yacht in winter are in the Caribbean, Antigua, the British Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, US Virgin Islands and Martinique. St Barths is probably the most popular over Christmas and New Year for its vibrant nightlife and party atmosphere.
Thailand is another destination worth considering, the landscapes are magnificent with stunning beaches and warm weather from December to March.
The summer is over so it's time to bring out the big guns and splash some colour out front with bold necklaces that glint and sparkle in the Autumn light.
Damiani Belle Epoque Necklace
This cross within a cross can be removed and worn as two crosses. Crafted in pink gold with multicoloured sapphires.
POA
Montluc Orbit No.4 Diamond Pendant
This autumn will be wet, wet, wet, so stay inside and read up on the latest new wonderful watches from some of the best watch manufactures. These are the cream of the crop.
The TAG Heuer Carrera Plasma even has a crown made from a single 2.5-carat lab-grown diamond. The design is mesmerising and beautiful.
I am old enough to remember the rarity of seeing caviar on a restaurant’s menu. Dining at Michelin-starred restaurants was a regular occurrence in the early 1990s, yet the only recollection I have is from Marco Pierre White at Harvey’s. His now-legendary Tagliatelle of Oysters with Caviar was a right of passage for this writer along with Pigs Trotter Pierre Koffman. It is, of course, guaranteed that other gastronomic giants featured caviar. The notion that Le Gavroche, Manoir aux Quat Saisons didn’t would be absurd - I just cannot recall them.
