• One benefit of Yoon Seok-hyeon’s mandatory military duty in South Korea was that he had time to read a stack of books about the design industry. He’d been learning about the practice in college before he served but found the program’s tendency to s

Pleasure yachts were once the province of amateur sailors and oligarchs—men who, aside from a shared appreciation of varnished teak, adhered to diverging aesthetic templates. For serious mariners, form followed function, and fripperies were frowned u

London’s most expensive restaurant has its least visible presence. Sushi Kanesaka lies behind a dark, unmarked wooden door in Mayfair’s 45 Park Lane hotel, the exterior of which also fails to advertise the place. Further confusing matters, the entran

We all know the saying “Less is more.” Over the past century, the aphorism has become a battle cry for architects and designers, defining a modernist aesthetic that champions the minimal and the refined over the busy and the ornamental as a path towa

Several years of living in a sleek if nondescript penthouse in the heart of Bologna, Italy, left architect Laura Gasparini and her family desiring a home with more room and character. Their 1,600-squarefoot apartment was sufficient for everyday life,

ASK ANY ELITE athlete or entertainer about how they were inspired early on, and you’ll likely hear another household name that impacted their trajectory to stardom. LeBron had Jordan, Bono had Bowie, and Streep cites De Niro. The same holds true in a

It was part of a customer-service revolution that included 24-hour room service and the ability to reserve a table for dinner, elevating the experience of being part of the already glamorous life of his hotel to new heights. It made his customers fee

✜ History’s first superyacht owner was Ptolemy IV, who ruled Egypt from 221 to 205 B.C.E. Among his royal fleet was a 300-foot catamaran that towered 60 feet above the Nile, propelled by thousands of enslaved men. But it was his descendant Cleopatra,

VINCENT CHAPERON SPENT his childhood dreaming of the sea. The grandson of French marines on both sides of his family, he grew up near the ocean and loved sailing—which is perhaps why he figured his stint at Moët & Chandon, in landlocked Champagne, wo

What do you get when a down-to-earth Midwesterner with an architectural bent cultivates an obsession with Italian fabrics, a love of English shop culture, and a very Ralph retail savvy? Todd Snyder— plus the $100 million brand that bears his name. Fo

You don’t need to be bonkers to be a goalkeeper, but it surely helps. Placing one’s head in harm’s way of a rocketing projectile and swinging cleats for a living is risky enough; adding insult to potential injury, if your side loses, you’re usually t

Kim, who helped shoot “Rising Up” (p. 96), dropped out of college in 2011 to pursue a career in street and fashion photography. The transition brought the South Korean lensman to New York, and since then his work has graced the pages of British GQ, T

One of the most interesting superyacht previews this year was Benetti’s 148-foot Motopanfilo model, which introduced the brand’s Veranda deck. The Italian builder’s unconventional design eschews the traditional main salon, instead creating a less-for

AT FIRST BLUSH, the McLaren 750S doesn’t look all that new. Like an old friend with exceptional plastic surgery, the British marque’s latest model appears more taut but the underlying bone structure is still there. And it’s an impressive foundation;

The yacht-design industry’s current obsession with reinventing vessels’ exterior space is moving all the way up front, giving a social makeover to what has traditionally been a utilitarian, crew-centric domain. Dutch builder Damen’s SeaXplorer series

PLANES WITH FLAPPING wings sound more anime than aerospace, but the world’s largest airframers on both sides of the Atlantic are expediting prototypes that could shape the next generation of business and commercial jets in entirely unconventional way

During his prolific and inventive career, Marc Quinn has cast a selfportrait with his own frozen blood, preserved flowers in liquid silicone, and made a series of 3-D works by covering images of postcard-pretty sunsets with urban detritus and mountin

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Dan D’Agostino recognizes that only a handful of music lovers are prepared to dedicate a miniature skyscraper’s worth of space—and an equally towering financial outlay—to build a comprehensive multicomponent sound system. So the sonic engineer and hi

CHRISTOFLE AND ITS subsidiaries have used a variety of hallmarks, from a rooster to a cat’s head, since the Parisian firm was founded in 1830. It employs the knight, one of the most powerful pieces on the chessboard, on the high-quality items it has

Once known as the gritty, industrial heart of northern Italy, Milan emerged in the mid-20th century as one of the most exciting design hubs in Europe, if not the world—a title it still holds today, as evidenced by the annual pilgrimage of design love

While most youthful infatuations rarely lead to long-term relationships, there’s always the exception. Just ask David Lee, who never forgot the feeling of that love-at-first-sight sucker punch—though his heart’s desire was not for a person but for a

The leisure space at a yacht’s stern has become an essential part of the superyacht blueprint. Owners’ emphasis on the water’s edge has given rise to active beach clubs, which might feature enclosed lounges, drop-down transoms for watersports access,

Architect VS. Interior Designer Deborah Berke, the N.Y.C.-based mastermind who has penned modernist residences from the Hamptons to Fort Lauderdale—and somehow finds time to serve as dean of the Yale School of Architecture. Rafael de Cardenas. If the

At the start of a recent backyard overhaul for a family of five in Montecito, landscape designers Eric Arneson and Nahal Sohbati watched a small gray drone make its ascent into the blue sky. They then guided the machine around the property, using it

Known for her maximalist interiors, Los Angeles–based designer Kelly Wearstler has spent the past three decades forging her own version of California cool. It comes as no surprise, then, that statement seating is a Wearstler go-to. One of her newest

The first century of aviation design didn’t give trendspotters much to get excited about, with the vast majority of production aircraft remaining little more than tubes with wings attached. Later, boomerangshaped outliers known as “flying wings,” suc

It's a balmy afternoon, and I'm riding my bike around an idyllic island in the Mediterranean. I keep glancing at the cyclist next to me—partly to make conversation but also to check that he's really Geraint Thomas, winner of two Olympic gold medals,

Some craft-conscious customers will hop over to London to visit Budd or Turnbull & Asser. Others fly to Naples to observe Luca Avitabile and other Italian makers in action. But a select group, it turns out, will journey as far as Amritsar, a city in