To say that money can’t buy taste is a truism with particular relevance in today’s luxury markets as they rebound from the global recession. Ostentatious spending is out, replaced with …
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Nicolas Baretzki checks his wristwatch. “It was a full moon exactly two-and-a-half days ago,” he says. Like any avid luxury watch enthusiast, the International director of Jaeger Le Coultre Swiss-made …
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It may have just been a convergence of circumstances, but Tiffany’s opening of both their Beirut boutique and their regional headquarters in Dubai within the same week was a pretty …
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When an enamored Zeus changed form into a bull to kidnap and ravish the beautiful Phoenician princess Europa, a continent was born. Originally from Tyre, South Lebanon, she was whisked …
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On a Wednesday evening in downtown Beirut, Wadih Riachi is carefully explaining to an engaged group the fermentation and maceration process that goes into the Joseph Drouhin Beaune Greves …
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Many questions have been raised following the May 15 “Nakba” border incidents in southern Lebanon which left six demonstrators confirmed dead. But so far they haven’t been the right …
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Until late February Syria had remained, much to the bewilderment of headline-hungry newspaper editors, immune to revolutionary revolt. When Tunisian-inspired unrest began rippling across the region, the regime …
