Luxatic

OMEGA has figured out something Hollywood learned years ago: people don’t just want a product anymore. They want lore. They want immersion. They want to feel like they’re buying a tiny piece of the fantasy, even if the fantasy involves a genetically blessed British spy blowing up trains while somehow keeping his cufflinks perfectly aligned.

There are luxury beds, and then there are luxury beds in the same way there are wristwatches that tell the time and wristwatches that require a man in Geneva to stare at a gear under a magnifying glass for six weeks. Savoir Beds has always belonged firmly in the second category. And now it has teamed up with Ozwald Boateng, the Savile Row tailor famous for turning suiting into something far more expressive than dull navy wool, to produce a bed called the Authenticity.

Ferrari has finally pulled the covers off the Luce, which means the thing many tifosi quietly hoped would never happen is now sitting there in broad daylight wearing a Prancing Horse badge and four doors. And honestly? I can’t decide whether it’s deeply impressive or faintly absurd. Probably both. This is Ferrari’s first fully electric production car. A 1,035-horsepower, four-motor EV weighing 2,260kg, seating five people and riding on 24-inch rear wheels.

Bang & Olufsen has spent decades selling beautiful sound to wealthy adults who want their speakers to look like sculpture and their headphones to whisper “tasteful” from across the room. Now it’s teaming up with Hiroshi Fujiwara’s Fragment Design again, because apparently the luxury tech-industrial complex still believes the future comes in matte black aluminum with impeccable branding discipline. In this case, they’re probably right.

Hublot’s latest Essential Series release takes the Hublot Spirit of Big Bang somewhere unexpected. Taupe, of all colours. A quiet, warm, and slightly dusty taupe. The kind of tone that’s usually reserved for cashmere interiors in old Bentleys or the suede lining of a Berluti shoe bag, not for a brand that built much of its modern identity impressing people with a “Bing Bang”. Still, it works. Better than expected, actually.

Baz Luhrmann has designed a railway carriage for Belmond, which somehow makes complete sense once you’ve had a moment to think about it properly. If you’ve ever seen one of his films – Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby, that Elvis one where everybody seemed permanently damp with emotion – you’ll know subtlety has never really been his preferred setting.

Lamborghini has made a 1,015-horsepower special-edition Revuelto for North America because apparently the standard Revuelto wasn’t already attention-seeking enough. It’s called the Revuelto NA63, only 63 examples will exist for the US and Canada, and every single one will almost certainly disappear into a temperature-controlled garage next to a Senna, a GT Black Series, and a pair of very white trainers. The “63” references the year Ferruccio Lamborghini founded the company.

Photo: Tod’s Tod’s has built a summer collection around Marlin, the 1930 yacht once owned by the Kennedys and now restored and sailed by Diego Della Valle, and the result has that polished ease Italians like to call sprezzatura – though here it comes with salt air and old-money Cape Cod associations. You can almost smell the varnished teak. Or maybe that’s the point. The collection arrives wrapped in a certain fantasy, naturally. JFK in Hyannis Port. White polo shirts.

Chem Chem Lodge / Photo: Auberge Collection Auberge Collection has officially arrived in Africa, bringing its particular brand of understated luxury to the plains of Tanzania with a new portfolio of safari lodges and camps that feels far more thoughtful than a typical hospitality expansion.

ER Yacht Design has unveiled a new 65-metre explorer yacht concept called Super-Expedition, a vessel designed to blur the line between luxury superyacht, expedition platform and floating operations base for owners who apparently find ordinary cruising a bit dull. And unlike many explorer concepts we’ve seen lately, this one actually seems to have been designed by people who understand how ships work. The main idea behind Super-Expedition is adaptability.