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South China Morning Post
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Big, showstopping jewels anchor new high jewellery collections of Louis Vuitton, Cartier and Bulgari, while auctioneers have sold especially momentous stones for record sums
In 1937, the rather sharp-tongued British politician Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon wrote in his diary of Lady Granard, one of the so-called 'dollar princesses' – American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy – that she 'could scarcely walk for jewels'. One such jewel, a frankly enormous emerald set into a diamond-studded collar necklace, is a highlight of the Cartier exhibition currently showing at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Cartier Collection diamond and platinum necklace with a 143.23-carat emerald, made to special order in 1932. Photo: Handout Advertisement Because yes, huge gemstones have never lost their appeal. One only needs to look at Anne Hathaway and Priyanka Chopra Jonas at this year's Met Gala for glittering proof. Both wore necklaces from Bulgari's high jewellery collection Polychroma, with Hathaway's – the Cosmic Vault – featuring a 123.35-carat sugarloaf sapphire, and Chopra Jonas' – the Magnus Emerald – featuring an emerald of 241.06 carats. The latter is the largest stone the Roman jeweller has ever set, no less. The necklaces are among 60 'millionaire pieces' included in the 600-piece range – launched in Sicily in May – with such pieces only available to the brand's top clients. Anne Hathaway wears Bulgari's Cosmic Vault necklace with its 123.35-carat sapphire, from the Polychroma collection. Exceptional gemstones were of course at the centre of the Magnificent Jewels auction at Christie's, which set records in New York in June with pieces such as the Blue Belle sapphire necklace, which sold for US$11.3 million, and the Marie-Thérèse pink diamond, which sold for US$14 million. Clearly this points to certain categories of clients unperturbed by the vagaries of the global economy. New research from Bain also found fine jewellery – and especially high jewellery – to be more resilient than categories such as fashion. Priyanka Chopra Jonas in the Magnus Emerald necklace, featuring a 241.06-carat stone, from Bulgari's Polychroma collection. Photo: Handout Vintage jewellery buyer Emrys Cousins – who sources antique and estate pieces for clients around the world through her business Love Well Sourced – says the move towards 'more is more' is not only down to economic uncertainty but other factors too. 'Post pandemic, we are craving opulence and personality … My clients want to invest in pieces that are fun, joyful and uniquely personal,' she says. 'The conversation has moved from 'quiet luxury' to maximalism in the context of personal style, which gives anyone who needs it the permission to layer their precious pieces and wear whatever brings joy.'
Times
4 days ago
- Times
The chic, affordable Tuscan coast where Rome's stylish set holiday
Remember the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where Reg asks: what have the Romans ever done for us? He eventually conceded that they'd introduced sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the freshwater system and public health. I'll tell you something they didn't do, though. They didn't tell us about their favourite holiday playground. Monte Argentario, the panettone-shaped peninsula in southern Tuscany, is where stylish Romans spend their summers. And the arrival of La Roqqa, an attention-seeking hotel, means this lovely destination's cover has finally been blown. While the rustic commune, a couple of hours' drive northeast from the capital, is hardly undiscovered, it certainly qualifies as being lesser known. When I tell friends, all with well-worn passports, that I am bound for Argentario, most think I am guilty of a pretentious pronunciation of Argentina. But the super-chic Romans I meet for lunch on the terrace of the capital's equally super-chic Bulgari hotel know exactly where I'm going. After a glass of wine, they admit they find it funny that we Brits rush, lemming-like, to the Amalfi coast, which they dismiss as too crowded and too expensive. What I would pay for a glass of very average barolo in Positano, they tell me, will buy me a delicious supper of fresh-off-the-boat fish in Porto Ercole or Porto Santo Stefano, Argentario's main towns. That afternoon, as Rome recedes in my car's rear-view mirror, so too does the 21st century. Cinematic ripples of pine-clad Tuscan hills fill the windscreen, pin-cushioned by the occasional ramshackle farmhouse. Eventually I reach the intriguing tomboli, Argentario's twin sandbars, which were formed by a long-running spat between the sea and the Albegna River. They now act as causeways that unfurl like strands of tagliatelle, luring motorists onwards. So while Argentario was once an island, thanks to the tomboli it's technically now a peninsula. There's something about crossing that causeway, flanked by the flamingo-filled Orbetello Lagoon, that leads to an immediate feeling of contentment. Argentario once attracted the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Slim Aarons and David Bowie but by the late 20th century had inexplicably fallen off the international radar. It has remained A-list for Italians, though, with the country's elite docking in Porto Ercole's marina, which is full of gleaming giga-yachts. Nature played a blinder in Porto Ercole, taking a deep scoop out of the shoreline and producing a seductive bay. Its hilltops are crowned with fortifications built by the Spanish in the 16th century. Its old town — all narrow streets and hidden piazzas — sits on one steep hillside and caramel-toned townhouses lead down to its seafront promenade. Here fairground stalls, an old-fashioned merry-go-round, shops selling apple-shaped wicker trays and trattoria for alfresco aperitivi deliver top-class passeggiata with views of the Tyrrhenian Sea. • Discover our full guide to Italy La Roqqa's rooftop bar offers a perspective on the lot, with fancy cocktails created with Italian-made spirits on the side. The hotel, once a run-down three-star, is now owned by the Swedish entertainment and property entrepreneur Conni Jonsson. After a three-year renovation, it reopened last year as a 55-room design hotel. Its interiors combine la dolce vita flourishes with Scandi minimalism. Take the all-white lobby, with its eye-catching staircase-cum-sculpture and standout pieces such as Arco and Toio floor lamps, a Utrecht armchair by Cassina, and a lipstick-red Gaetano Pesce Up armchair. Bedrooms, meanwhile, are lime-plastered in calming colours inspired by the area's natural palette of blue waters, emerald forests and terracotta earth. The custom-made furniture is clean-lined and contemporary, doing nothing to distract from the views of sea and gardens through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Marble bathrooms are small but stocked with swishy Ortigia products from Sicily (including useful tins of sun lotion). On the sustainability front, there's a filtered water tap in every bedroom and thoughtful collaborations such as a kitchen garden run by L'Orto Giusto, a social agriculture project that employs people with disabilities. Its produce is used to great effect at Scirocco, the rooftop restaurant, where the executive chef Francesco Ferretti serves refined Tuscan cuisine. Service is enthusiastic and smiley, if a little siesta-slow. I begin with the watermelon tataki, its sweetness countered by the sharpness of wasabi, and follow with the creamy cuttlefish and handmade pasta. • The best hotels in Tuscany A five-minute walk from the hotel is its beach club, Isolotto. This cute cove is backed by snooker-smooth lawn terraces peppered with loungers. Hotel guests have complimentary loungers; most locals go BYO and park up by the water's edge. Everyone shares the bar and restaurant, both of which have views as distractingly gorgeous as the clientele. The water is crystal clear and hours float by with me feeling smug about being outnumbered by very cool Italians. One morning I tackle the short but steep climb to Forte Filippo, the 16th-century fortress that guards one of Porto Ercole's promontories. I see only four others on the ascent along a dirt path where wild rosemary and juniper lurk between the long grasses. My reward is a star-shaped masterpiece complete with moats. I gaze out on the rugged coastline's pine-clad knuckles, as Spanish sentries must have 500 years before. • These are Tuscany's best villas Later I take the Caravaggio Trail in the historic centre of the old town. One of Italy's greatest painters, Caravaggio had a lively personal life — he was also a pimp, a drunk and a brawler. In 1606 he was evading justice after murdering Ranuccio Tomassoni in a fight over a game of racquets. Four years later he washed up in Porto Ercole, where he died aged 38. Take your pick on the precise cause: murder by the Knights of Malta, malaria, lead poisoning from his paints, syphilis or sepsis from a knife wound inflicted during yet another scuffle. He may have breathed his last on Feniglia beach, a 7km expanse ten minutes outside town, though it was more likely in the Hospital of Santa Croce. A death shrouded in mystery, I reckon it's the way he would've wanted it. His trail proves something of a mystery too. I follow the signs through a ramble of stone lanes, houses with crumbling plasterwork and jasmine-scented squares, but as far as I can see they don't lead to a single Caravaggio landmark. Perhaps I miss a succession of plaques but the nonchalance of a tourist trail leading nowhere feels very Porto Ercole to me. Another day I take the one-hour boat ride to Isola del Giglio (from £22 return; This 24 sq km isle found the wrong sort of fame in 2012 when the Costa Concordia ran aground and partially sank here, killing 32 people. It's hard to marry that tragedy with the scene as my boat docks. It's so nostalgia-laden, the film producer Richard Curtis might have prepped the portside for one of his rose-tinted tracking shots. Store owners have draped floaty dresses and colourful ceramics around their doorways like bunting, fishermen tend their boats and waiters their tables. Talking of which, my lunch of black spaghetti, cockles and yellow tomatoes sprinkled with cured fish roe at Doria is deliciously generous and a bargain at £17 (mains from £15; • A classy spa trip to the Tuscan hills For an island of 1,400 Giglio punches well above its weight for arts and culture, with a summer theatre season, a wine festival, an opera festival and a film festival. I wish I was staying for sunset drinks on the terrace of La Guardia hotel, which sits on a granite outcrop above the port. Flaminia Pérez del Castillo and Flavio Caprabianca were high-flying ad executives in Rome who summered on Giglio. When the hotel came on the market in 2017, they took it as their cue to take up permanent residency and have brought pared-back panache to the property (B&B doubles from £280; Everyone tells me I must visit Capalbio, a medieval walled village 30 minutes' drive east from Porto Ercole and another favourite of Rome's smart set. Around every corner lies yet another stage set Curtis couldn't better, a grand Renaissance church, an intriguing miniature gothic door or an ornately decorated bench. I nip into one bar where the staff don't speak much English but we get by using the international languages of smiles and alcohol. They usher me through to the terrace for a glass of prosecco overlooking a patchwork of olive groves and woodlands. At Il Frantoio — all dark woods and whitewashed walls — I dine on spicy parmigiana (mains from £26; Before I leave Argentario I recall the final thing the Romans did for Life of Brian's Reg: they brought peace. I certainly found it in this corner of d'Arcy was a guest of La Roqqa, which has B&B doubles from £350 ( Fly to Rome
Tatler Asia
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Tatler Asia
Happy birthday, Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Here are her 9 iconic jewellery moments
2. 140 diamond carats to remember Above Bulgari debuted its new high jewelry collection at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome, a celebration marking the brand's 140th anniversary (Photo: Instagram / @bvlgari) At Bulgari's 140th anniversary celebration in 2024, Chopra Jonas dazzled in what is considered the Roman maison's most precious creation to date: the Serpenti Aeterna necklace. Valued at a staggering US$43 million, the snaking diamond choker was crafted from a 200-carat rough diamond into seven pear-shaped stones totalling 140 carats—one for each year of the brand's history. Designed by jewellery creative director Lucia Silvestri, the necklace took 2,800 hours to complete and was the centrepiece of a celebratory Aeterna collection unveiled at Rome's historic Baths of Diocletian. Bulgari's CEO Jean-Christophe Babin fittingly called it 'the necklace of the century.' 3. A classy Cannes debut Above Priyanka Chopra wore a bespoke Roberto Cavalli off-shoulder gown for her first appearance at the Cannes Film Festival (Photo: Instagram / @priyankachopra) Priyanka Chopra made a dazzling debut at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival by bringing a modern twist to Old Hollywood beauty. Attending as a guest of Chopard, she paired her strapless embellished dress with a striking set of long silver statement earrings. Shaped like delicate leaves, the retro earrings featured a hammered texture that added a subtle sparkle to the look. 4. A traditional wedding in style Above Close-up of Priyanka Chopra Jonas's Hindu wedding attire (Photo: Instagram / @shadimandap) Above Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas had two wedding ceremonies to honour both of their cultural backgrounds (Photo: Instagram / @shadimandap) For her Hindu wedding ceremony in 2018 with husband Nick Jonas, Chopra Jonas paid tribute to her heritage in a custom-made red lehenga by Indian designer Sabyasachi that took 110 embroiderers from Kolkata, India, 3,720 hours to create. The intricate ensemble was complemented by a statement necklace, also by Sabyasachi, inspired by the opulence of Mughal-era jewellery. The multi-layered necklace featured an exquisite cocktail of uncut diamonds, emeralds and Japanese cultured pearls set in 22-carat gold. Chopra completed the look with traditional Indian bridal adornments, including a haath phool, a 16-carat maang tikka (head jewellery), a kamarbandh (belt-like jewellery), chura (bangles), and kaleeras (dangling accessories on bangles), along with pear-shaped diamond earrings and a nose ring. 5. A Tiffany love story Above Priyanka Chopra confirmed reports that she is engaged to Nick Jonas in a selfie with Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon (Photo: Instagram / @officialraveenatandon) Above Priyanka Chopra Jonas shows off her engagement ring in a Thanksgiving picture she posted on Instagram (Photo: Instagram / @priyankachopra) Give her breakfast, lunch and dinner at Tiffany's. While Chopra Jonas didn't have a specific engagement ring style in mind, she always knew it had to come from one brand: Tiffany & Co. Just two months after they began dating, Nick Jonas famously shut down the jeweller's New York flagship store in July 2018 to pick the perfect ring. He proposed with a timeless custom design featuring a 5-carat cushion-cut diamond with tapered baguette diamonds on each side, set on a platinum band. Estimated at around $300,000, Chopra Jonas showed off the diamond ring for the first time in a selfie with friend and fellow Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon on Instagram. 6. A Swarovski fantasy Above Priyanka Chopra Jonas at her second Met Gala in 2018 (Photo: Instagram / @priyankachopra) Chopra Jonas's sartorial flair was on full display when she embraced the 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination' Met Gala theme in 2018 in a custom Ralph Lauren crimson velvet gown topped with an embellished gold chain mail coif reminiscent of a medieval knight. Crafted entirely by hand with Swarovski crystals, meticulous beadwork and over 250 hours of embroidery, the ornate hood stole the show. In a red-carpet interview, Chopra Jonas revealed that the embroidery was done in India, allowing her two worlds—Western and Hindu—to collide. She completed the ensemble with subtle Cartier jewellery, letting the craftsmanship speak for itself. 7. A royal affair Above Priyanka Chopra Jonas stunned in a lavender Vivienne Westwood skirt and blazer combo paired with a classy hat (Photo: Instagram / @viviennewestwood) Above Close-up of Priyanka Chopra Jonas's earrings (Photo: Instagram / @viviennewestwood) Chopra Jonas took a break from her tight work schedule for her close friend Meghan Markle's big day. For Meghan and Prince Harry's royal wedding in 2018, she accessorised her all-puruple ensemble with a pair of sculptural diamond earrings by Lorraine Schwartz. Featuring a bold, multi-pointed geometric star design, the statement earrings lent a distinctly contemporary edge to her otherwise classic look. 8. A sparkly Golden Globes debut Above Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Jeffrey Dean Morgan at the 2017 Golden Globes (Photo: Instagram / @goldenglobes) Priyanka Chopra made a dazzling debut at her first Golden Globe Awards in 2017, turning heads with a 45-carat diamond drop necklace by Lorraine Schwartz. Featuring an emerald-cut pendant, the statement piece played up the plunging neckline of her bespoke gold Ralph Lauren gown, striking a perfect balance between elegance and red carpet drama. 9. The crown that started it all Above In 2000, Priyanka Chopra Jonas was the fifth Indian woman to win the title (Photo: Instagram / @tgpc_official) Priyanka Chopra rose to fame with her Miss World win in 2000, when she was just 18 years old, marking the beginning of a storied career that would take her from pageantry to the silver screen and eventually to global stardom. On winning the title, Chopra Jonas adorned the iconic Miss World crown, famously known as the 'Blue Crown'. Crafted from white gold and adorned with diamonds, sapphires and turquoise stones, the crown is estimated to be worth millions.
Forbes
6 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
These Dentists Launched A Multi-Million Dollar Luxury Accessory Brand
Zane and Omar Sabré of Maison de Sabré. Luxury fashion accessories is a competitive space where veteran entrepreneurs usually fare better than novices. When the Sabré brothers Omar, 34, and Zane, 31, launched their leather-based brand, Maison de Sabré, they had no direct experience. Instead, the siblings were in dentistry, and the enterprise was fashioned as a means to an end during a difficult family crisis. This alone makes their brand story unique. Its ascendant success since its founding in 2017 makes it a luxury start-up fairy tale. Now, the Sydney, Australia-founded brand with global operations—whose founders were featured on the 2020 Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list for Retail & Commerce—is expanding its US distribution and gaining market share with its value-centric luxury offerings. FOUNDING IDEA Maison de Sabré aims to address the accessory needs of the professional lifestyle. Initially, the brothers' calling was dentistry, with the older brother, Omar, heading to Australia first to study. Zane followed, and during his studies, the brothers' father was diagnosed with leukemia, and the family's education funds were refocused on the elder Sabre's care. In a spark of inspiration, the young dentist and the dental student devised a plan for a business to fund Zane's remaining studies. What they lacked in experience, they made up for in determination. Their father's words also fueled the project. "Our father is a businessman in the automotive industry who worked with his hands. He wanted us to work with our minds, and constantly said we should do something scalable, which today means online," Omar recalled. "From a product perspective, we were looking for something we could sink our teeth into," he added, no pun intended. A leather goods idea presented itself, along with the not-so-obvious synergies between the two. "Coming from dentistry, we had a transferable skillset. We learned material physics, biochemistry, natural forms, and functions. We studied the art of the smile and its composition. Everything was studied at fractions of a millimeter and microns. So, it was extremely detail-oriented," Omar continued. Bulgari and Cartier, whose less-touted colorful leather goods served as inspiration, influenced early pouch and card holder prototypes but the duo was not enthused at the result. Noticing a Louis Vuitton trunk phone case on a stylish customer at Sydney café, the older Sabré had the a-ha moment to design a leather phone case, which in 2017 made them among the first to market for the elevated smart phone case. With Omar on the creative and design side and Zane on the sales, finance, distribution, and marketing side, the family members had complementary skillsets beyond their dentistry profession. SPREAD INFLUENCE From its inception, the product was aimed at fashionable young female professionals, aged 25-35, described as 'aspirational and inspirational'. As the brand expanded into categories such as handbags and luggage, it spoke to their fast-paced, on-the-go careers and personal lives, offering a product that is both smart and playful. A model shows off key Maison de Sabré styles. "We built a website on a budget, with zero marketing funds. But we had a product and an Instagram account, so we reached out to 200-300 influencers a day, seeding a highly visual product to them. About a third of them responded, and 10 percent of those posted, building a following organically. By the end of the first year, we had established a network of 5,000 influencers and generated $2 million in sales. This allowed us to invest in paid marketing and hire a team to manage the influencer program and customer care, which helped drive the brand," Zane explained. "We did this working part-time as I was still finishing dental school, and Omar was practicing as a dentist. Everyone said it's all been done, but we did it," he added. The brothers pivoted into Maison de Sabré full-time, thus Zane has yet to practice dentistry. DTC SWEET SPOT The brand was humming along nicely as a direct-to-consumer business, as the brothers built their own supply chain, sourcing leather that could be used on everything—from the original phone case to the bags and small leather goods, such as signature charms, that were added to the mix. A key leather supplier in the Netherlands also works with Louis Vuitton. "The leather has been designed and manufactured by our partner tannery to meet our standards. Any piece of hardware, including zippers and lining, is designed and manufactured by us. For instance, the zippers are a hundred percent brass that we designed ourselves to be extremely smooth on 2000 cycles of opening and closing," Omar said without a hint of irony for another dental parallel. The Mister Men and Little Miss bag charm collaboration from Maison de Sabré Sustainability was also a key component of the brand's core values; thus, material utilization is at an 85% rate. "Charms, zipper pulls, straps, interior pocket lining. We use every single piece of leather and try to find a purpose for it," Omar added. More eco-friendly fabrics have also entered the brand vocabulary. "Every year, we challenge ourselves to branch out into new materials. The year before last, we did a material called Resilon Nylon, a recycled nylon filament yarn made from fishing net, which we developed the previous year. In 2024, we introduced a new material called BioVeg™️, co-developed in Italy, which is a sustainable biopolymer plant-based leather alternative material," Omar noted. With production and distribution sorted, the brand was moving along nicely. But the brothers had bigger plans. "We got to a stage where we knew what our ambitions were: to be a true player in the luxury field," Zane said, adding, "There's only so much you can do with online business. You become limited and reach a ceiling. We knew what we were building, a real modern luxury Maison. For that, you need an in-store, touch-and-feel experience." CONCESSION STANDS Whether by intuition or data, the duo knew that a retail presence didn't necessarily mean traditional wholesale or free-standing vertical brand stores. Maison de Sabré's entry into the post-pandemic market opened up new avenues for them. With a concentration on Japan, Europe, and the US, the brand launched physical retail experiences. Maison de Sabré hosted pop-ups in galleries in the Shibuya, Tokyo district, and in Osaka, Japan The Maison de Sabré kiosk in collaboration with Nikki Beach Club. "We don't do any wholesale. We employ a non-conventional approach to retail, with our staff and stock, and don't allow retailers to place direct buys. Concession models allow us to control the narrative, which is important for a brand entering this retail experience. Hands-on allows us to control the storytelling to the customer," said Zane of the partnership that involves renting space from the larger entity, typically for a percentage of sales. Part of the story is the charms that customers select to personalize their bags. Thus, most concessions include their signature charm bar. Currently, growth is 200 percent YOY in the last 2 years, with a customer base in over 70 countries worldwide, whose loyalty and retention rate is 95 percent. Retail partners, which tend to secure an exclusive for a region, include Rinascente in Milan, Le Bon Marché in Paris, and a major British retail partner, which is soon to be announced. AMERICAN FOOTING "The Bloomingdale's flagship concession was meant to be a month-long pop-up, and it's been four months now, and it's still going strong," Zane pointed out, adding, "We aren't looking at expanding more now. We keep the selection and partnership quite tight to make sure we can mutually support each other to push it forward and maximize both customer bases to get the best outcome for the business." Online US partners include Nordstrom, Saks, and FRWRD, whose celebrity clientele led to organic placements through a VIP seeding initiative. Boldface names seen in the brand's offerings include Naomi Watts, Oprah Winfrey, Halle Berry, Selma Blair, and Emma Roberts, among others. Currently, Maison de Sabré has a team of approximately 60 people spread across Australia, Japan, France, Italy, and, most recently, New York, where Zane relocated at the beginning of 2025 to oversee the US strategy, as he recognizes the achievement of penetrating major retailers. "The leather goods space is a highly competitive market with a high barrier to entry. These departments typically have carried the same brands for five to ten years. Typically, not many enter the space that frequently," he added. COLLABORATIVE SPIRITS New raffia styles from Maison de Sabré. Just in time for summer 2025, a new material category, raffia, poised the brand for special concessions with the beach-y party franchise, Nikki Beach Club. Starting in St. Tropez, and expanding to Mallorca and Cannes, the hotspots will feature branded Maison de Sabré kiosks offering totes and specialized summer theme charms. Co-branded collaborations have also been a part of the burgeoning leather goods brand. Among them are Disney, Hello Kitty, and, most recently, Mister Men and Little Miss, which debuted in gallery pop-ups in Harajuku, Tokyo, and the Marais District of Paris. "Our collaborations are rooted in nostalgia as the main driving factor in how we decide who we collaborate with. We have been fortunate to receive inbound requests to collaborate," said Zane. For Disney's first collaborations, the brand produced Mickey & Friends—think Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, and Pluto—across leather phone cases. The Hello Kitty collaboration debuted in conjunction with a "It's the first time that anyone has transformed the original artworks from the 1970s children's book into leather accessories. We reproduced them at a one-to-one scale into charms," noted Omar, adding, "In our generation, the child within us never really went away, which makes our generation special." FAMILY TIES Brothers Zane and Omar Sabré founded Maison de Sabré after first becoming dentists. While the brothers are rarely in the same place these days due to the multiple global projects and activations, the family's name is omnipresent on every product. It reflects the brother's commitment to quality. "I think people are tired of overpaying for luxury and understand that isn't what luxury is anymore. Consumers have been led to believe that luxury is a function of price, but in reality, luxury is a function of craftsmanship, material, and meticulous construction, which adds to its longevity. That's what true luxury is about," noted Omar. Zane summed up the endeavor: "Our success comes down to the fact that we have a timeless design and unwavering quality. The color is incredibly optimistic, newness comes at an amazing pace, and the cost is incredibly charming. It's a price point you can't beat for the value you get."
Vogue
6 days ago
- Vogue
The Best Hotels in Rome Are a Love Letter to the Eternal City
After a four-year-long renovation of a Rationalist building in Rome's illustrious Piazza Augusto Imperatore, Bulgari Hotel Roma swung open its lavish doors in 2023. The property is within walking distance of city gems like the Pantheon and the Vatican, and presides over the Mausoleum of Augustus. Milanese studio Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel looked after the interiors (the same design cadre enlisted for all of the previous Bulgari Hotel outposts), with the brand's signature mosaics, lacquered wood, and rippled marbles on full display. And the opulence doesn't stop there: Keep an eye out for handblown glass lamps and Ginori vases from the 1930s, and take a moment to appreciate the colorful Brocatelle, red jasper, and Carrara marbles that line the surfaces of each of the hotel's 110 rooms and suites. You'll also need to pay a visit to the spa, which was inspired by the 3rd-century Baths of Caracalla. The 20-meter pool with its eight columns of arabesque marble create a striking centerpiece for enjoying a treatment with Augustinus Bader products—or for simply taking a swim beside the 19th-century replicas of classical statues. The culinary program is equally show-stopping. Under the guidance of three-Michelin-starred Italian chef Niko Romito, the hotel offers six food and beverage outlets reflective of Italy's gastronomic heritage, with Il Ristorante as its crown jewel. The restaurant sits on the fifth floor of the property overlooking the emperor's monumental tomb, if you're looking for a dinner spot with impressive city views. Amenities: Spa, pool, gym, restaurant, bar, rooftop terrace, chocolate shop Spa, pool, gym, restaurant, bar, rooftop terrace, chocolate shop Address: Piazza Augusto Imperatore, 10, 00186
