Part rock ’n’ roll, part fine furniture, the new Embassy Wing Chair is a collaboration between the fashion designer Logan Riese and the Los Angeles–based furnishings company Phyllis Morris, in honor of the latter’s 60th anniversary. The one-of-a-kind, hand-carved piece, which is priced at $14,850, features embossed leather upholstery with leather appliqués and 22-karat gold leaf. “Logan’s leatherwork is all done by hand, as is our furniture, so by essentially dressing our chair in his ornate leatherwork, we ha…

Following a two-year renovation, the Hotel d’Angleterre in Copenhagen, Denmark, has reopened. While the nearly 260-year-old hotel’s ornate architecture remains, its original 123 rooms have been converted into 90 larger rooms (from about $450 to $7,630), including 60 suites. The property’s restaurant, Marchal, is led by the chef Ronny Emborg, who earned a Michelin star at AOC. The hotel also has a wine bar, a Champagne bar, and a spa and gym; the swimming pool opens in August. (+45.3312.0095, www.dangleterre.dk…

Miele’s Combi-Steam oven ($3,695) combines steam and convection in one device, as the company’s previous models have done, but it comes with a 40 percent larger interior, to cook more food. The new oven, which Miele introduced in March, also enables cooks to adjust the cooking method (baking, steaming, or both), temperature, and moisture level with custom settings or choose from more than 100 automated settings for meats, vegetables, and breads and pastries. The oven’s most impressive capabilities reportedly i…

As a follow-up to the white Moxie showerhead that Kohler debuted last November, the appliances brand has made the musical device available in new colors and finishes: chartreuse, retro blue, navy blue, and cherry red, as well as brushed nickel and oil-rubbed bronze. These eye-catching showerhead and wireless speaker combos sync with any Bluetooth-enabled device (iPhone, MP3 player, etc.) to stream your favorite songs in the shower. The mechanism consists of an anchored head with 60 angled nozzles and a speaker…

Stately is a word usually associated with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, but in the case of the new Wraith, another S word—stunning—seems far more appropriate. Based on a shortened Ghost platform, the Wraith’s fastback styling and striking two-tone paint scheme make it the sportiest Rolls-Royce in recent memory.
“The purposeful fastback profile is Wraith’s defining element,” says Giles Taylor, the design director for Rolls-Royce. “Inherent in this graceful line that sweeps from the top of the screen to the very rear…

One of the challenges of owning a high-performance vehicle is finding places that allow you to test the car’s limits on the road. Racetracks offer safe environments where you can open the throttle all the way. Here are two of our favorites.
Lime Rock Park Drivers Club “It might be the thought of driving the same track that has challenged so many legendary drivers over the years, or the sheer beauty of the place, but for me it’s the speed turns,” says Lime Rock’s director, Simon Kirby. Opened in 1956, the Conn…

Tired of hearing that all cars look alike these days? Take a gander at the 2013 BMW 640i Gran Coupe equipped with white-and-brown leather interior as part of the German automaker’s Individual program.
BMW Individual is halfway between a stock offering from a dealer and a full-on bespoke car, built specially by the factory for the customer. This particular Individual package includes an opal-white full leather interior with contrasting stitching and piping in Amaro brown. The dash and door uppers are clad in A…

Let’s get this straight: The CXC Motion Pro II is not some video game on steroids. Rather, this full-motion simulator was built specifically as a trainer for professional racers, according to Chris Considine, who founded CXC Simulations in 2007 to develop a machine that would accurately re-create the forces felt in the cockpit of a racing car. (He is the son of the actor, auto journalist, and racer Tim Considine.) Just under 100 CXC simulators have been sold, and the system has been embraced by the pros; no fe…

Following a two-year restoration, Prince de Galles, a Luxury Collection Hotel, reopens this month with stylish new decor featuring art-deco-style furnishings, Saint Laurent marble floors, and bronze light fixtures, among other artful touches. The hotel has 159 rooms and suites (starting at about $785), including the more than 2,600-square-foot Appartement Parisien, which—with two floors of living quarters and a 914-square-foot terrace overlooking the city—is its most lavish accommodation. Other amenities inclu…

Long Island Distillery is a craft spirits producer surrounded by 5,000 acres at the western end of Long Island’s North Fork wine trail, not far from the Hamptons. This month it will release its first rye whiskey. The Rough Rider Bull Moose three-barrel rye ($40) spends a year aging in new American oak, followed by two or three more months in bourbon barrels and finally two or three months in single-malt whiskey barrels. The resulting spirit has a crisp, fruity nose, notes of caramel, vanilla, and blackberry on…