Fragrance
A perfume with more than one life.
Guerlain’s Mitsouko began in 1919 and now exists through new bottles, materials and interpretations. Continuity in perfume is never as simple as an old name.
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The Pilatus PC-12 PRO makes the strongest case for private aviation when capability answers a real mission, not when the cabin becomes the story.
The Hallberg-Rassy 340 concentrates on a protected cockpit, manageable sail plan and life aboard. Bigger is not the only route to a serious boat.
Bags & Style
The bag with a way back.
The Hermès Kelly is famous for its outline. Its more useful lesson is that construction, care and skilled repair decide whether an object can have another life.
Cameras and Image Making
The camera built around a mount.
The Leica M3 arrived in 1954 with a new bayonet mount and rangefinder system. Its lasting importance lives in a working ecosystem, not a shelf.
Art & Design
The stool built from one bend.
Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60 has stayed in production since 1933 with three legs, a round seat and one structural idea worth repeating.
Musical Instruments
The piano that is not furniture.
A Steinway Model D may dominate a room, but its value is decided at the keyboard, inside the action and through the care that keeps it responsive.
Watches
The case for quartz.
Grand Seiko’s SBGX261 puts a quietly unusual idea on the wrist: serious watchmaking need not mean a mechanical movement.
Sound & Listening
A record player with a next chapter.
The Linn Sondek LP12 asks a better question than what comes next: how much of what you already own can come with you?
Wine & Spirits
Forty years before the cork.
Blandy’s Sercial 1975 spent four decades in cask before bottling. The number on the label is only the beginning of its story.
Jewellery & Decorative Arts
A palace inside an egg.
A gold palace, down to its cannons and trees, inside an egg just 12.7 centimetres high. What makes this Fabergé more than its precious materials?
Homes & Architecture
The house that needs its caretakers.
Fallingwater’s extraordinary relationship with its landscape also explains why enduring architecture depends on less visible work.