IWC reveals the way Carl Gustav Jung shaped the soul of its iconic watch brand The Rauschenbach family took over IWC Schaffhausen in 1880 and in 1905 one of the clan’s daughters married Carl...
Toulouse-Lautrec retrospective at the MoMA Toulouse-Lautrec’s work is so ubiquitous it’s sometimes difficult to see. You might meet La Goulue or Jane Avril at...
Outlet villages on the mainland don’t just offer bargains Yi Ou Lai Suzhou Village Lower prices are one of the factors driving mainlanders to shop for luxury goods abroad,...
The Fairmont Peace Hotel, Shanghai The-Fairmont-Peace-Hotel When a callow youth I played Elyot, one of two husbands in Noel Coward’s Private...
Hari Ra Ra Ra A few hurried steps from Sloane Street and Harrod’s Daniel Jeffreys found a charming boutique hotel that provided...
Taking tea with the French in Mohkan Shan In times past Chiang Kai-Shek, gangsters with tigers and French diplomats all sought refuge from Shanghai’s...
Ma Jian Ma Jian’s novel The Dark Road uses scorching satire to expose the agony that China’s One Child Policy has brought...
Quintessentially Asia magazine Edition 9 The latest edition of Quintessentially Asia magazine was released on Friday at Quintessentially’s fab Christmas Party...
Chanel’s love for lions It is said that Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel made her first trip to Venice in the 1920s, to mourn the death of her one...
Luxury grandmaster Jean-Marc Lacave takes charge of Moët Hennessy in Asia Pacific Christophe Navarre, CEO of Moët Hennessy, announced today (Friday July 25th) that Jean-Marc Lacave is to become...
Chinese caviar finds fortune with the New York Times Since the USSR fell and the state’s monopoly on the sturgeon egg delicacy ended experts estimate that 90% of the...
Kazuo Okada passes the taste test A great restaurant is more than just fabulous food, it should also be a wonderful space and that rule has been...
New technology transforms printing into a turbo-charged art form Evolutionary Landscape by Eve Stockton, Relief Print, Woodcut In 868AD, during the Tang dynasty, the...
Chinese Erotic art takes its place on Asia’s red hot auction block Despite being seen as a conservative country, China enjoys a profound culture of eroticism with a long history of...
The Inaugural SCAD/Quintessentially Asia Magazine Fine Art Prize The first Fine Art Painting class at SCAD Hong Kong drew a rich array of talent and the best among them was...