Tiffany shareholders have approved the company's sale to LVMH for $16.2 billion and the deal is expected to close mid-year, subject to regulatory approval. Not surprisingly, LVMH's patriarch Bernard Arnault says 'Tiffany will be an outstanding addition to our unique portfolio of luxury brands'. Questions? Which of his children will M. Arnault put in charge [...]
Category: Design and ambience
Luxury at a “lemon” villa next to Italy’s River Arno
Next month, Villa La Massa Hotel, five miles from Florence, adds "La Limonaia", a conversion of the resort's one-time greenhouse for lemon trees. The two-floor La Limonaia has eight bedrooms and two suites, which can, via connecting doors, become two-bedroom suites.. In fact the entire resort, which now offers in total 51 rooms and suites, has [...]
Danish hospitality in Scotland, and beyond
Anders Holch Povlsen inherited his family's clothing company, Bestseller, when he was 28 - Forbes says he is now worth some $8 billion (the sum has been boosted by his largest-share in online fashion retailer ASOS). He and his family are passionate about Scotland, and so far they own 220,000 acres there, through their conservation [...]
Read more: Ted Turner’s unique Vermejo ranch
Vermejo Park Ranch is 40 miles west of Raton, NM, USA - it is four hours' drive south of Denver and four hours' drive north of Albuquerque. The 600,000-acre ranch, bought by Ted Turner, is home to 1,400 bison, plus antelope,1,400 bison, deer, elk, mountain lion, 180 species of birds. There is memorable fishing, Orvis-endorsed, on [...]
Want to stay in a revolving space hotel?
The Gateway Foundation, a private company developing a space hotel, thinks "the first spaceport" could be accepting hotel guests by 2025. The Foundation's Von Braun Rotating Space Station will orbit Earth and will accommodate not only scientific research but also visiting tourists looking to experience life away from our home planet. But, while any timeline [...]
A hotelier makes Forbes’ Italy top-women list
Valentina De Santis, Owner and CEO of Grand Hotel Tremezzo, Lake Como, is in Forbes' choice of 100 most influential females in Italy. As well as running the hotel, she also looks after her family. As her GM, Silvio Vettorello, says: "She is always present in the company and with the same desire to always [...]
News: Is St-Jean Cap-Ferrat going to have another luxury hotel?
Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, has apparently paid €200 million for Villa des Cèdres, Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, France. He bought it via his System Capital Management, SCM. The villa, built in the 1800s, is set in 35 acres of world-class botanical gardens. The seller, via Savills (who were marketing it all for $350 million) is the [...]
Marrakech gets private jet luxury
This Saturday, 1st February 2020, Marrakech, Morocco, sees the opening of the popular destination's first private jet terminal. Already, Morocco sees over 11,000 private jet movements a year, of which about 50% go in or out of Marrakech. The Jetex operation, opening in a few days, will show that aviation and luxury hospitality are natural [...]
Staying there: Setai Miami Beach
Why is The Setai Miami Beach so special? This is the hotel that is obviously packed out not only for Art Basel Miami but for other special events: for Super Bowl 2020, this coming Sunday, 2 February, it has sold its Penthouse for five nights, for $50,000 a night.... GM Alex Furrer can cope with anything. [...]
Havana hotels update
On 1st June 2017 highly-experienced hotelier Xavier Destribats, from Bordeaux, opened Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana, which has, despite US feelings towards Cuba, proved highly popular with discerning luxury travellers. It is a new-build, in an 1894-vintage shell, and of the 246 rooms, even a starter room, say #493, offers 40 sq. m of space [...]