Savant, a Massachusetts-based home-automation company, recently announced the new Savant Smart Host control system. An upgraded version of Savant’s best-selling product, which now works 40-percent faster, it manages lighting, climate, entertainment, and security in up to 12 rooms. The system integrates seamlessly with Savant’s Metropolitan wireless lighting collection, which also has been updated recently. With newly designed switches, dimmers, and keypads, the line offers a chic and tech-savvy selection compa…

In Robb Report’s own backyard, Amanda Millin, associate editor of Robb Report Home & Style and Robb Report Collection, takes the new Can-Am Spyder F3S for a fun spin through the hills of Malibu. In fact, California is the one state that does not require a motorcycle license to drive Can-Am’s trikes.

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As the fourth and newest addition to the Spyder family of three-wheelers, the F3, which hit dealerships early this…

The modern American footwear brand Esquivel Shoes, known for its Old World approach to handcrafting footwear, has teamed up with the nearly 150-year-old leather tannery Wickett & Craig to create a new capsule collection of men’s shoes for the spring season. The Esquivel and Wickett & Craig collection merges the 20-year-old, Los Angeles­–based company’s revived-classic designs with the quality vegetable-tanned leather from the tannery—one of the oldest and last remaining of its kind in the United States…

Music festivals can often feel like the aural equivalent of an all-you-can-eat buffet, but BottleRock Napa Valley is bringing 12-course-tasting-menu refinement to its three-day, wine-country music festival by adding, among other new touches, a literal tasting menu prepared by top chefs. This year’s BottleRock Napa Valley takes place May 29 to 31 at the Napa Valley Expo exposition grounds.

Though VIP tickets to the event are available ($595), they pale in comparison to the Platinum pass, which is available f…

In celebration of the debut of Dreams of Diamonds, a comprehensive new tome by the British photographers Alastair Laidlaw and Christine Marsden, seven top diamond houses from around the globe will showcase a selection of their rarest items at the Gemological Institute of America’s headquarters in Carlsbad, Calif., from now until May 11.

“Dream of Diamonds is unique because it is the largest book ever to be published that focuses solely on diamonds,” says Siddharth Kasliwal, designer and owner of Munnu the G…

In the 1950s, while many U.S. carmakers focused on family-friendly vehicles—and as such eyesores as those from Ford’s Edsel marque came off the assembly line—these topless European beauties presented racier alternatives. Such superior performers as the Ferrari 212 and Lotus Type 15 were clearly built for life in the fast lane (and the spotlight), some of them making fine showings from Mille Miglia to 24 Hours of Le Mans. And while high speeds with the top down can send the heart racing, these iconic cars inspi…

On May 11 the auction house Christie’s hopes to brush past its previous world record for art sold at auction when Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger (Version “O”) goes on the block, with bidding expected to reach $140 million or more. The top lot at Christie’s Looking Forward to the Past sale in New York, the painting is the last in a series of 15—lettered “A” through “O”—that drew from 19th-century artist Eugène Delacroix’s studies of the same name. Departing from Delacroix’s French Romantic motif, Picasso’s …

For more than 100 years, the hub of the American automobile industry has been Detroit. And a look back at a century of the motorcar reveals a history of invention and achievement in the city that enthusiasts think of wherever the word car is spoken. Every year, Detroit is host to the famed Woodward Dream Cruise. Now, the inaugural AutoMoto Detroit International Film & Arts Festival offers car lovers another vantage point—the theater seat—to gather, share stories, and learn.

From May 28 through 30, three…

The Fresnel Hydrofoil Trimaran might look like a sci-fi writer’s fantasy, but it will soon become a reality for its new South African owners. The futuristic sailboat is the brainchild of Dr. Margot Krasojevi?, a London-based architect whose career has focused on creating eco-friendly projects that shift existing paradigms. Recent projects include a Canadian prison with its own hydroelectric dam, a coastal home in South Africa powered by the tides, and a water-purifying bridge in Amsterdam.

The Fresnel (name…

On May 1, Brad Grimes, the winemaker at Napa Valley’s Abreu Vineyards, will host a dinner at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House in Chicago, pouring several of his California cabernet sauvignon–based blends. Abreu Vineyards is known for its exceptional wines and extremely limited production of less than 500 cases of each release. The five-course pairing menu—created by the Chicago eatery’s chefs Jim Teutemacher and David Holben—will begin with amuse-bouches, including Montrachet goat cheese mousse and foie g…