July 22, 2026 · Eva Winterer The Next Generation of Collectors: Taking the Saleroom Stage A younger collector has walked into the saleroom, from a wider map than the trade once knew, and started setting the prices. Alexandre Ghotbi, deputy chairman at Phillips, describes the generation that arrived last and …
July 22, 2026 · Ella Carlucci A Mirror Set, a Blue-Green Diamond, a Journe: Four Records and One Rule Across four salerooms in the first half of 2026, collectors paid record sums for a set of mirrors, a blue-green diamond, an independent watch and a Hockney. Phillips watch chief Alexandre Ghotbi traces the thread …
June 12, 2026 · Eva Winterer The Quiet Discipline: How Two European Manufacturers Build Trust on the Factory Floor A century-old workwear maker in Borås and a sixty-year eyewear house in Linz arrive at the same conviction, that trust is built on the factory floor through what a product owes the person who keeps …
June 11, 2026 · Eva Winterer Knowledge Is the Technology: Casein, Natural Yarn and Two Studios Rethinking the Craft Inés Rodriguez Rodriguez in Galicia and Jessica Tartaglia in Bisaccia turn regional milk and natural yarn into biodegradable cloth, proving that textile innovation begins with inherited skill rather than new machinery. In an atelier in …
Regenerative Luxury, Senses Where Luxury Begins: The Value of Natural Fibre, From the Karoo to Vittorio Veneto
Movers When Banks Become Hotels: Stephan Ferenczy on Urban Change, Restaurants and the Life of Old Buildings