Cocktail Carriers

Tumi has made it easier to have your cocktail on the go with its new smart and stylish cocktail-ready cases and backpacks. The Italian-made Tumi Mixology Set ($4,995) comes equipped with a bottle holder sized to fit the newly designed Ketel One vodka bottle, two martini glasses, a shaker, one-ounce and two-ounce jiggers, and custom stainless-steel utensils including a zester, a bar spoon, and olive picks. The package also includes a redemption card for two complementary bottles of Ketel One. The handy case is …

Lamborghini Celebrates Motorsports with the 2014 Lamborghini Gallardo Squadra Corse

Lamborghini is issuing yet another limited edition version of the Gallardo, this time recognizing its motorsports effort with a street going version of the Trofeo race car called the Squadra Corse.
The limited run is named after the recently formed department within Lamborghini that coordinates the company’s racing activities. Only 50 Squadra Corse units will be built, with 15 destined for the United States and three for Canada. Deliveries begin this month; the price, including destination fees, is $261,200.

Cadillac Elmiraj: A New Luxury Concept That Is More Than an Illusion

Using the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance as a backdrop, General Motors’ luxury division unveiled a new concept coupe that foreshadows an all-new rear-drive flagship line that could appear within two years. The Cadillac Elmiraj is a hardtop coupe powered by a 500 hp twin-turbo 4.5-liter V-8 driving the rear wheels. While Cadillac has scotched rumors that it would build a super-premium sedan to rival cars like the Bentley Flying Spur and Rolls-Royce Phantom, executives have said that they are looking at a rear…

Alisal Hosts a Wine-Filled Weekend in the Lompoc Wine Ghetto

From October 25 to 27, Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort will provide a getaway into the legendary Lompoc Wine Ghetto, one of the most concentrated pockets of winemaking in California’s Santa Ynez region. The resort’s first Alisal Wine Ghetto Weekend—priced at $1,695 per couple for accommodations, meals, and tastings—will kick off Friday evening with a gourmet barbecue before Saturday’s all-day wine-and-food immersion in the Wine Ghetto.
Saturday will begin with breakfast in the property’s dining room. The group …

Sneak Peek: Rimba Jimbaran Bali, Indonesia

The luxury beach resort Ayana has opened a new enclave on its 190-acre property. Set back from the ocean, in the forest, Rimba Jimbaran Bali launched this month with contemporary rooms overlooking tropical gardens and swimming pools.
Why to Go: Access to two resorts in one. The high ground above Jimbaran Bay, fringed by some of Bali’s best private swimming beaches, has been called the “Beverly Hills of Bali” for its cliff-top villas and luxury resorts, including the Four Seasons. The new 20-acre Rimba shares …

Branching Out

The British photographer Pam Weinstock has been selling her nature-focused images since 2009, and more recently she has made some of her one-off furniture pieces available as well. Now the artist is introducing her first furniture collection: All Paths Lead Home will make its debut at the Decorex International interior design show in London from September 22 to 25. The line consists of three upholstered seating designs that feature Weinstock’s photography as the pattern. The dark porter’s chair, the bright hig…

What’s Hot: Brilliant New Lighting Creations

These new chandeliers, lamps, and sconces are lighting up the market in a variety of materials, from blown glass to translucent porcelain to brass.
Baroncelli
London and New York
The family-owned Italian design firm Baroncelli, known for its handblown Murano glass lighting, will launch three new pieces at the Decorex International interior design show in London from September 22 to 25. The bespoke lighting designs include the Tobia, a modular design made from handcrafted cristallo trihedrons on a polished c…

A Custom Hunting Rolls-Royce Hits the Auction Block

The Rolls Royce Phantom I was built in the 1920s as a replacement for the marque’s original Silver Ghost, but Umed Singh II, the maharaja of Kotah (India), envisioned something different for the sports tourer. An avid big-game hunter, the then 51-year-old maharaja commissioned a spectacular one-off Phantom I in 1925 with hunting-specific amenities. That uniquely equipped automobile will be for sale at Barrett-Jackson’s annual Las Vegas sale at the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino, September 26–28.
The maharaja h…

On the Waterfront

After nearly 25 years as the city’s premier seafood restaurant, downtown Los Angeles’s famed Water Grill has opened its second location—in view of the Pacific, on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. The 8,700-square-foot space, designed by Jeff and Todd Hatch of Hatch Design Group, has a vintage nautical feel, thanks to exposed brick, reclaimed wood, oversize leather booths, a copper-topped bar, and industrial lighting that recalls a ship’s pulleys. The restaurant offers traditional table seating, a bar serving sign…

Giving Them a Whirl

The bathroom manufacturer Duravit launched its DuraStyle and Happy D.2 collections this summer in North America, and now the German brand is making a number of whirlpool-bath technologies available for models in both of those lines. The sleek bathtubs can be outfitted with heaters, waterproof speakers, floating remote controls, LED lights in various colors, and massage jets. The company also has added a new tub with a built-in acrylic headrest to its popular Starck 2 collection (the designer Philippe Starck cr…