Monthly Archives: October 2015

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Vintage silver jewellery | scandinavian silversmiths | Sydney shopping

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Cool, understated elegance that belies inner sparkle and sizzle.

A new treasure trove of wearable silver is inspiration for gift hunters, collectors and connoisseurs. Aficionados of vintage Scandinavian silver are making a beeline for Christopher Becker’s shiny new pocket gallery in Sydney’s Potts Point, called Antiques-Art-Design. His seductive display of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian pieces – polished to a mirror shine – includes designs…

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Taming the beard | Australian bush remedies | campfire couture

Groucho
Brainy and cheeky. Witty and inventive. Always smoking hot.

If you could bottle a bushranger – and his campfire … Enterprising Sydney art dealer Michael Reid has sought inspiration from the Australian bush for a new line of beard oil. Forget your patchouli, vetiver, sandalwood and cedar, to tame the big bushy beard, you need a scent that is more pioneering – bushranger, campfire, cinnamon whiskey, or good…

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finding fernleigh | upper hunter valley | unique australia | nsw short breaks |

Garbo
Cool, understated elegance that belies inner sparkle and sizzle.

Seeking solitude and a true blue Australian break? A working farm in the Upper Hunter Valley has it in spades. Along with a unique honeymoon eyrie. Remote is travel’s new black. Out of mobile range, out of sight, out of this world … add to that exclusivity and a quintessential Australian experience, and a long weekend…

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Luxury boating | customised motor yachts | starboard status symbol

Brando
Charisma and character - and just a little bit game-changing. Action!

A gleaming new fleet of bespoke motor yachts does the rounds of Sydney Harbour It’s not every day a man asks you if you’d like to see his engines. Bruce Scott does, and it’s hard to refuse. If what’s below deck on the highly polished, immaculately designed and kitted out 73ft motor yacht Komotion has…

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Shopping in Paris | Galeries Lafayette | iconic department store

Garbo
Cool, understated elegance that belies inner sparkle and sizzle.

Art vs shopping ? Tough call. If you had just one day in Paris … The Paris shopping playground that is Galeries Lafayette came to Sydney this week to spruik its “nouveau chic” makeover and new customer treats over pastries and smoked salmon at the Sofitel Wentworth. In the hands of one family group for…

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franck muller dials into sydney | the master of complications

Groucho
Brainy and cheeky. Witty and inventive. Always smoking hot.

Franck Muller makes the coolest, craziest, watches. In Sydney to open a new store, we find out what makes him tick   Swiss watchmaker Franck Muller is attracted to precision, power and perfection. Which might explain why his inspiration in recent times has reached from the high seas to grand prix racetracks to nature’s underbelly….

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Hermitage masterpieces | royal ice-cream | from Russia with love

Monroe
Sexy and glamorous. Red carpet ready. Did someone say 'rescue fantasy'?

Just what every blue-blooded ice-cream lover needs this summer… The “Cameo Service” made by the Sèvres Porcelain Factory in France in the late 18th century for Catherine the Great, is one of the grandest and most expensive dinner services ever made. It comprises more than 700 pieces (taking care of dinner, dessert and coffee, including a very divine…

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sydney under the radar | restaurants locals love | new tables

Groucho
Brainy and cheeky. Witty and inventive. Always smoking hot.

  While fine dining temples such as the reborn Bennelong and the scheduled Noma summer pop-up at Barangaroo have been getting all the press love lately, elsewhere Sydney sizzles with more under-the-radar options. Here, four hot new diners. Petrol, in Springfield Avenue, has in the past eight years become something of an institution among Potts…

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Manta makeover | sydney waterfront dining

Monroe
Sexy and glamorous. Red carpet ready. Did someone say 'rescue fantasy'?

Dining at the Woolloomooloo Wharf is one of the best ways to experience Sydney. It delivers the goods for both locals and visitors. Manta Restaurant and Bar, between Otto and China Doll, has after nine years, undergone a makeover. Over Veuve Clicquot and a degustation to introduce the new look and feel, owner Rob Rubis…

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Coffee harvest in Costa Rica | sustainable crops | the Nespresso express

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Charisma and character - and just a little bit game-changing. Action!

The future of premium coffee lies as much in nurturing the farmer as the beans they produce. Editor Susan Skelly reports from the coffee plantations of Costa Rica. High in the San Ramon region of Costa Rica’s Central Highlands, a soufflé-fine mist is falling on Edgar Fernandez Araya’s coffee plants, making the already glossy leaves…

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