The $100 Million Question: What Makes Art Worth That Much? A painting changes hands for more than $100 million and the first question is almost automatic: how can any object be worth that much? The question sounds financial, but the answer usually has surprisingly little to do with the cost of making the object. Canvas is cheap. Paint is cheap. By Vincent • 2 min read
The Yves Saint Laurent Mondrian Dress – When Fashion Borrowed from Art In 1965, Yves Saint Laurent took one of the most recognisable languages in modern art and placed it on the body. White fields. Black lines. Blocks of red, blue and yellow. The result became known as the Mondrian dress, although describing it simply as a painting transferred onto fabric misses By Vincent • 2 min read
Art & Design Why Vintage Fashion Is Becoming Fine Art A museum vitrine changes the way we look at a dress. Placed inside a boutique, it is fashion. Placed behind glass with a date, provenance and designer name, it begins to behave like art. That distinction is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. From wardrobe to archive For decades, vintage fashion By Vincent • 2 min read
Craftsmanship Why the Cartier Crash Still Looks Radical The Cartier Crash does not look like a watch that has settled comfortably into history. Its case appears to be melting toward one side. Roman numerals stretch around a distorted dial. Even the familiar Cartier railway track seems to have been pulled out of shape. Decades after its creation in By Vincent • 2 min read
Why Watches Are Getting Smaller Again For much of the 2000s and 2010s, watchmaking moved outward. Cases grew larger, sports watches became heavier and wrist presence became part of the appeal. Forty millimetres started to feel almost restrained while certain models pushed far beyond it. Now the direction is reversing. Proportion over presence The return of By Vincent • 3 min read
The Rise of the Private Terminal Private aviation has always been partly about time. Avoid the airline schedule, leave when you want and land closer to where you need to be. Increasingly, the airport itself is becoming part of that proposition. Private terminals, dedicated suites and increasingly elaborate FBOs are turning what was once merely a By Vincent • 3 min read
What Actually Makes a Superyacht Custom? The word custom appears almost everywhere in luxury. Cars can be customised, suits can be customised and hotel rooms can be customised through a sufficiently long preference form. In superyachts, the term means something much more literal. A genuinely custom yacht does not begin with a finished product that is By Vincent • 3 min read
Yachts & Boats Why Superyachts Are Getting Less Flashy There was a period when the basic language of the superyacht was relatively easy to understand. More decks, more polished surfaces, bigger windows, larger beach clubs and increasingly improbable amenities all communicated one thing: scale. That language is changing. The newest generation of yachts is not necessarily smaller or less By Vincent • 2 min read
The Hotel Lobby Is Disappearing For more than a century, the lobby was the hotel. It was where guests arrived, waited, watched and were watched. The grand hotels of Europe built enormous rooms around that idea, while twentieth-century business hotels transformed the lobby into a carefully organised sequence of reception desk, concierge, elevators and By Vincent • 3 min read
AMANZOE - PORTO HELI, GREECE Hotels Why Everyone Wants an Aman There are luxury hotel brands with more properties, larger suites and more visible branding. Yet few names carry the strange cultural weight of Aman. For certain travellers, saying that a hotel is beautiful is not enough. They compare it to Aman. Architects study the proportions. Other hotel groups borrow the By Vincent • 3 min read
Travel Amanvari – Aman’s New Desert Retreat on the Sea of Cortez There are landscapes where adding a luxury resort can feel like an interruption. Baja California Sur is one of them. Desert meets mountain, estuary and sea with very little need for architectural improvement. Amanvari enters that landscape carefully. Opened on 1 August 2026 on Baja's East Cape, the By Vincent • 3 min read
Hotels Rosewood Hotel Bauer – The Return of a Venetian Institution Venice has no shortage of grand hotels, but some belong to the city in a way that goes beyond hospitality. Their terraces, entrances and dining rooms become part of the choreography of the place, as familiar to returning visitors as certain bridges or campos. The Hotel Bauer is one of By Vincent • 3 min read
