The new Arteriors showroom, which opened earlier this month on the corner of Melrose Avenue and Huntley Drive in West Hollywood, is the 25-year-old brand’s first store selling directly to consumers. The 1,800-square-foot space displays more than 400 types of lighting fixtures, furniture, and accessories, all awash with natural light amid a light blue and green decor. Highlights include Arteriors’ popular polished nickel Duchess chandelier with smoke glass cylinders ($3,900) and its wood-and-iron Evan dining ta…

Resource Furniture, a 14-year-old distributor that specializes in multifunctional pieces that maximize space, is now the exclusive dealer of Stealth Kitchen Modules. Occupying a footprint as small as 6 feet wide by 30 inches deep, these chic walls of cabinetry from the Pennsylvania-based YesterTec—known for its innovative alternatives to the standard built-in kitchen—conceal a refrigerator and freezer, a four-burner range, an oven, a dishwasher, and a microwave behind doors that automatically turn off the appl…

The U.S. exhibition of The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk (currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum)may be coming to an end this weekend, but starting in March, Gaultier enthusiasts can find more of his outré designs in a new collection of furnishings for Roche Bobois. The avant-garde Parisian couturier first partnered with the French furniture brand four years ago to produce a reimagined version of Roche Bobois’s Mah Jong sofa—with silver-screen kiss and black lace fa…

What does your favorite car have in common with ancient rulers, deities, and saints? It too can be immortalized in sculpture, thanks to the stone specialists at Lapicida. The English company has begun using its new computer-numeric-control stone-carving system to produce classic cars from a variety of stones. One of just three such systems in the world, the five-axis machine uses a software program, diamond-tipped drills, and a detailed 3-D model of the vehicle to produce a sculpture from a single block of mar…

For over 40 years, the month of January has brought automotive enthusiasts to Scottsdale, Ariz., for the Scottsdale Collector Car Auction Week. At the 2014 auctions, Barrett-Jackson, Gooding & Co., RM Auctions, and Bonhams were all out in full force, with stunning four-wheel works of art up for grabs and a handful of new auction records. Gooding & Co. set 12 records this year—among them the sale of six cars above the $2 million mark and 13 cars above the $1 million mark—and sold 110 of its 117 total lo…

As the head of distilling and whisky creation for Glenmorangie, Bill Lumsden has been responsible for some extraordinary single malts finished in barrels that previously held something other than whisky. He is also a fan of wines from Burgundy. On a recent trip to the Côtes du Rhône in France, the Clos de Tart Grand Cru vineyard caught his attention. While marveling at the rich wines this small vineyard produced, Lumsden noted that they had been aged in tightly grained, 3-year-old air-cured French oak barrels….

In 2012, the Aston Martin Owners Club formed AMOC Racing, an organization that holds races throughout England to provide Aston Martin owners an opportunity to compete on professional auto-racing circuits. Bolstered by the success of its first two series, AMOC Racing recently released the schedule for its 2014 race season, which again includes a stop at Brands Hatch Indy Circuit in Longfield, England—the site of Aston Martin’s 2013 Centenary Celebration and a favorite track among club racers. The 2014 series wi…

The owners of vineyards sometimes exhibit personalities every bit as faceted as their wines. Katherine Crofton Cebrian Pringle was such a person. This figure of 20th-century San Francisco society once lived in Madrid, but the Spanish Civil War forced her to return to California, where she entertained lavishly—with the help of appropriate staff. “I don’t even butter my bread,” she once said. “I consider that cooking.” She did, however, make wine: After reviving Napa Valley’s Schramsberg winery, she sold it to i…

After receiving numerous requests from clients who travel to dangerous regions of the world for business, the 6-year-old Toronto tailoring house Garrison Bespoke has developed a custom bulletproof suit, and it currently has 25 clients waiting for their custom $20,000 suits.
“We are always thinking about how we can give a man a better experience, and make him perform better,” says David Tran, the head of special projects for the company. “Over the years, men who work high-risk jobs say that when they are on ce…

In 2011, the London financiers and frequent travelers Abel Samet and Samuel Bail embarked on an obsessive 18-month search for the perfect travel bag. “Most leather bags we found were too flashy, covered in logos, or too formal to be worn outside the workplace,” says Bail. “We decided to create our ideal bag for transitioning between business travel and casual trips.”
The duo’s resulting line of leather goods, Troubadour, presents elegant bags that are meant to endure the journeys of their owners. The ina…