Travel  | March 30th 2012

Panda-monium

Welcome back to our weekly LUXE Links, in which we source some of the week’s best reads from around the web and around the world. This week, optical illusions in New York, Dover Street Market hits Tokyo, and floating beds in Singapore. Get clickin’, chickens!

Now you see him, now you don’t–finding human chameleon Liu Bolin at this must-hit exhib in NYC [We Jet Set]

Inside Singapore’s New Majestic Hotel, featuring floating beds and outdoor tubs [Hotel Chatter]

Eight hidden dining and retail treasures to seek out in hectic Hong Kong [Coolhunting]

Hello, hotel room: behind the “Do Not Disturb” sign at two new European photo exhibs [Tablet Talk]

Kawakubo brings Dover Street Market to Tokyo, causes a fashion Commes-motion, sets sight on New York next [T Magazine]


Faff & Faddle  | January 20th 2011
LUXE Londra

Say ciao to bella Londra

Calling all belloccios e belloccias!

Fasten your seat belts, LUXE has some molto exciting news for all the Italian-speaking leggy lovelies out there. We’ve teamed up with publishers Guido Tommasi Editore to bring you 20 Italian editions of our super-svelte concertina city guides. From Parigi to Pechino, we’ve got you covered with the best restaurants, shops, bars and spas and none of the faff, all in Italiano.

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Shopping, Travel  | January 12th 2011

Grand Central Station, New YorkOne of the stops on the Midtown CultureNOW tour – Grand Central Station, choc-a-block with archi n’ art wonders [photo by Nataraj Metz/Flickr]

Art and culture apps are popping up like dots on a teeny weeny bikini, but as always, caveat emptor, some are far better than others. Here’s our pick of the very best to get you front of the queue, ahead of the pack looking sleek not slack, and at the cutting edge of ‘in the know’. Sm-art!

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Shopping, Travel  | November 13th 2009

Marriage saviour

Marriage saviour

We know you’re a busy jetsetter, but bring back another last-minute duty free keychain or inflatable Tokyo Tower, and you might have a marriage to save. Luckily, we’ve hunted high and scoured low for five perfectly stylish gifts for you to bring back from afar that put the ooh in souvenir and the aah in ‘darling, I missed you’. They won’t break the bank and they won’t be going out in the garbage along with your  belongings…

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