Located in the heart of Vienna, the Hotel Sans Souci Wien is a new boutique hotel designed by the world-renowned design firm Yoo Studio. The hotel has 63 rooms and suites, and its restaurant La Veranda offers seasonal and local cuisine. It also has a spa, fitness center, pool, and sauna. Rooms start at about $275 a night. (+43.1.522.25.20, www.sanssouci-wien.com)

On April 22, the world’s top chefs will team-up to serve the ultimate meal: the Dîner des Grands Chefs. At the third annual occasion of this Relais & Chateaux event, 600 guests will savor cuisine from renowned chefs including Michael White of the United States, Yoshinori Shibuya of Japan, Enrico Cerea of Italy, and more. This year’s installment will take place in London at the Old Billingsgate—once the world’s largest fish market—overlooking the Thames River. The 45 participating chefs will collaborate in …

The Los Angeles–based designer Mary McDonald is known for her sophisticated interiors, which often combine bold patterns, Indian influences, chinoiserie, and modern lines. Now she is bringing her signature style to rugs and fabrics. Her rug collection (priced for the trade from $43 per square foot) for Patterson, Flynn & Martin ranges in style from simple geometric patterns to more elaborate designs featuring fretwork and Art Deco influences. Materials for the 18 rugs include hand-knotted Tibetan wool and …

When creating its newest jewelry collections, Baccarat looked to an unprecedented source of inspiration: its tableware. For the B Mania and B Lovely lines, which arrive in stores this month, the famous crystal company took cues from Harcourt, its best-known glassware. That collection dates back 170 years and features a hexagonal base and flat-cut sides that create a floral motif. According to Dominique Delale, Baccarat’s vice president of jewelry and accessories, this is the first time a stemware collection ha…

The Geneva-based boutique watchmaker Laurent Ferrier has established a long-term partnership with Meissen Italia, a subsidiary of the venerable German porcelain maker, to create limited-edition timepieces. Meissen’s first watch collaboration, with the German maker Glashütte, illustrated how high-quality porcelain can be used to create dials of exceptional visual depth, and that tradition continues with Laurent Ferrier. The first two watches feature Meissen’s hand-painted porcelain dials hidden under the moveab…

Devotees of New York’s Tribeca Film Festival might consider bidding on the one-of-a-kind Portuguese Automatic that IWC has offered in support of the event. The piece features the company’s Pellaton winding system, a black dial, and distinctive burgundy-shaded seconds and reserve indicators. Proceeds from the sale will support the Tribeca Film Institute, an organization created by the festival’s founders to develop aspiring New York City filmmakers. The watch will be auctioned through Antiquorum at an exclusive…

Two leading hotels—the St. Regis and the Four Seasons—will host a four-day culinary and golf getaway beginning on April 11 in Punta Mita, Mexico, located on the tip of Banderas Bay. The Punta Mita Gourmet and Golf Classic (from $1,515 per person) will include meals, cooking classes, and wine and tequila tastings led by a team of chefs from around the world, all centered on the two-day Punta Mita Cup golf tournament.
Open to 160 participants, the golf tournament will be held on both of Punta Mita’s Jack Nickla…

The opulent salons and suites of Paris’s Hôtel de Crillon—which have hosted the signing of the Franco-American Treaty of Alliance as well as historic figureheads including Theodore Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Winston Churchill—will, for the first time, host a sale of its own prized furnishings. The hotel will close at the end of March for an extensive two-year renovation. Its historic silver, porcelain, furniture, lighting, tapestries, and fine wines and spirits, however, will be on view for five days b…

Zemi Beach Resort and Spa is a prime beachfront property in Shoal Bay East, Anguilla, that is offering 28 two- and three-bedroom residences from $2 million to $3.1 million. Spread out over 5 acres along pristine white-sand beaches, the luxury homes were designed to be eco-friendly, with Enviroshake roof tiles built for water collection and motion and heat sensors to deactivate lighting and electrical systems when rooms are unoccupied. Homeowners will have access to the resort’s numerous amenities, including re…

The Amorim family’s fortune had its beginnings among the rambling port lodges that line the hillsides above the Douro River in Porto, but the family did not amass its wealth by making Portugal’s famous fortified wine; rather, its members were engaged in the less glamorous business of manufacturing cork stoppers. Their success, however, later enabled them to diversify their interests into banking, telecommunications, and—with the purchase of Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo—viticulture. At this 18th-centur…