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A DRAGON’S QUEST<br />
Peter Jones is helping<br />
the next generation<br />
SWING TIME<br />
New courses taking<br />
golf to another level<br />
PERFECT NOTE<br />
The exquisite violins<br />
of Roman Goronok<br />
NATURAL CHARM<br />
An old method giving<br />
wine a fresh taste<br />
GARDEN PARTY<br />
Expert advice for<br />
idyllic outdoor spaces
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C O N T R I B U T O R S<br />
JEFFREY T IVERSON<br />
The Paris-based<br />
oenophile is<br />
captivated by<br />
pétillant-naturel, a<br />
rival to the likes of<br />
Champagne in the<br />
world of bubbly. In<br />
Sparkling Charm<br />
(page 70), he seeks<br />
out purveyors of<br />
these increasingly<br />
popular cuvées to<br />
explore their appeal.<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
From his Hamburg<br />
studio, the illustrator<br />
portrays an array<br />
of personalities<br />
for this issue,<br />
including NetJets<br />
crewmember Ingrid<br />
Chilton (page 35)<br />
and motor racing<br />
driver Chris Froggatt<br />
(page 82), who<br />
talks about his life<br />
away from the track.<br />
CLAIRE WRATHALL<br />
In Entrepreneurial<br />
Spirit (page 12), the<br />
veteran journalist<br />
takes a look at the<br />
work of the Peter<br />
Jones foundation,<br />
an organisation<br />
established by the<br />
philanthropist and<br />
Dragon’s Den judge<br />
to encourage the<br />
next generation of<br />
business brains.<br />
ALUN CALLENDER<br />
Growing up among<br />
craftspeople has<br />
allowed the British<br />
photographer to<br />
capture his subjects<br />
more intimately,<br />
as he does with<br />
violin expert<br />
Roman Goronok,<br />
a NetJets Owner,<br />
and his instruments<br />
for Master of the<br />
Strings (page 36).<br />
MATTHEW APPLEBY<br />
For Crafting Eden<br />
(page 40), the<br />
UK-based gardening<br />
writer and editor of<br />
Horticulture Week<br />
talks to leading<br />
landscape designers<br />
about trends in how<br />
to create the perfect<br />
outdoor spaces for<br />
work, living and<br />
entertaining in these<br />
strangest of times.<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
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PEAK TRAVEL<br />
Sandstone cliffs tower<br />
above Habitas AlUla<br />
in Saudi Arabia, page 54<br />
36<br />
48 62<br />
BUSINESS SENSE<br />
Peter Jones is educating<br />
and empowering a new<br />
breed of entrepreneurs<br />
pages 12-15<br />
IN THE NEWS<br />
Caribbean cool, Alpine highs,<br />
travelling safely and curated<br />
objects of desire<br />
pages 16-31<br />
<strong>NETJETS</strong> UPDATE<br />
Executive Director Christian<br />
Luwisch in profile and<br />
companywide information<br />
pages 32-35<br />
STRING SECTION<br />
Roman Goronok revels in<br />
sourcing and selling oneof-a-kind<br />
violins<br />
pages 36-39<br />
AIRBORNE BEAUTY<br />
Aesthetician to the stars<br />
Angela Caglia on skin care<br />
in-flight and beyond<br />
pages 46-47<br />
FAIRWAYS TO HEAVEN<br />
Newly built standout<br />
courses, par 3 challenges<br />
and must-have bags<br />
pages 48-53<br />
DESTINATIONS TO DELIGHT<br />
Hotel openings and<br />
renovations offer an enticing<br />
glimpse of the future<br />
pages 54-61<br />
ON THE MOVE<br />
A collection of luxuriant<br />
luggage and best-in-class<br />
travel accessories<br />
pages 62-65<br />
SLOVENIAN STYLE<br />
The tiny European nation<br />
making a big impact on<br />
the world of gastronomy<br />
pages 66-69<br />
SPARKLING SUCCESS<br />
An ancient way of making<br />
bubbly is a palate-pleasing<br />
alternative to Champagne<br />
pages 70-73<br />
ÉMINENCE GRIS<br />
The veteran German artist<br />
remains an exceptional<br />
chronicler of today’s world<br />
pages 74-81<br />
THE LAST WORD<br />
Motor racing driver Chris<br />
Froggatt on life away<br />
from the track<br />
page 82<br />
© HABITAS, ALUN CALLENDER, STEVE UZZELL, MATTHEW SHAVE<br />
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The latest trends in making<br />
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– large and small<br />
pages 40-45<br />
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FRONT<br />
COVER<br />
SPRING <strong>2021</strong> // <strong>VOLUME</strong> <strong>13</strong><br />
A tree nursery in Bavaria<br />
captured by German<br />
photographer and designer<br />
Tom Hegen for his Cultivation<br />
Series, which is dedicated to<br />
the art of gardening.<br />
(See page 40 for<br />
horticultural trends.)<br />
Image by Tom Hegen<br />
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COURTESY PETER JONES FOUNDATION<br />
GOODWILL<br />
Entrepreneurial Spirit<br />
The Peter Jones Foundation introduces both<br />
business and life skills to students across the<br />
globe // By Claire Wrathall<br />
THE ROAD TO RICHES is rarely smooth and, like<br />
many novices, the British serial entrepreneur<br />
and philanthropist Peter Jones, now a fixture on<br />
The Sunday Times Rich List, suffered his share<br />
of false starts.<br />
Having started a successful tenniscoaching<br />
enterprise while still at school, his<br />
first grown-up venture was a bar. “The idea<br />
was to create something like the one in the<br />
Tom Cruise film Cocktail – lots of throwing<br />
cocktail shakers about,” he once told The<br />
Times. “Unfortunately, it just lost money.”<br />
About £200,000 all told. “And that was a lot<br />
back then” in the 1980s. He blames himself.<br />
“I managed it badly. I knew nothing about<br />
the industry.” Very little in his education had<br />
prepared him for business, and he didn’t close<br />
it quickly enough.<br />
Just over a decade later, however, in<br />
1998, he started the telecoms giant Phones<br />
International Group, going on to build<br />
Brandpath, which supplies e-commerce<br />
and supply-chain solutions to global brands,<br />
alongside which there have been a succession<br />
of side hustles, notably in television. Indeed, he<br />
is best known as one of the original “dragons”<br />
on the long-running BBC TV series Dragons’<br />
Den (17 series and counting), in which aspiring<br />
entrepreneurs pitch to potential investors. To date<br />
he has risked more than £4 million of his own<br />
capital, putting money into a succession of now<br />
thriving start-ups ranging from foods – Love Da<br />
Popcorn, Levi Roots’ table sauces, Barenaked<br />
low-carb noodles – to RemPods, a maker of<br />
healthcare products for people with dementia.<br />
In 2005, the year Dragons’ Den was first<br />
broadcast, he also launched the Peter Jones<br />
Foundation, a charity that strives to inspire<br />
enterprise in young people and teach them the<br />
skills they need to start and run businesses of<br />
their own. As he writes in its latest annual report,<br />
“We believe that with the right mix of support and<br />
opportunity, every young person has the potential<br />
to achieve great things.”<br />
FUTURE PATH<br />
The annual EntFest is one way the Peter<br />
Jones Foundation is helping foster young<br />
people’s core business skills<br />
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GOODWILL<br />
“We help young people develop a broad range<br />
of skills that will help them in employment as<br />
well as entrepreneurship” – Bill Muirhead<br />
“A lot of people think the Peter Jones<br />
association means we’re only about<br />
entrepreneurship,” says the foundation’s<br />
managing director, Bill Muirhead. “But<br />
fundamentally these skills are life skills. They’re<br />
useful whatever pathway you’re looking to go<br />
down” – and wherever you come from. (More<br />
than 50% of those they support come from<br />
disadvantaged backgrounds.) “So we help<br />
them develop a broad range of core skills –<br />
communication, creativity and innovation,<br />
financial, digital, teamwork, leadership, problemsolving<br />
and what we call self-management and<br />
resilience – that will help them in employment as<br />
well as entrepreneurship.”<br />
Its objective, he says, is “to encourage,<br />
educate and empower”. Take the foundation’s<br />
Tycoon Enterprise Competition. Open to<br />
schools and colleges across the UK, it invites<br />
students and, in a separate iteration, military<br />
veterans, to set up and run businesses. They<br />
produce a business plan, for which they may<br />
then be offered start-up loans of up to £3,000<br />
(depending on age) and away they go.<br />
Among the under-12s, “we see a lot<br />
of cupcakes, iPhone covers and T-shirts,”<br />
says Muirhead. “Nothing wrong with that;<br />
they’re still developing skills.” But the ideas<br />
put forward by older students can be hugely<br />
impressive, especially those inspired by social<br />
and environmental issues – for which the<br />
competition has a special prize called Business<br />
for Good. Recent initiatives have focused on<br />
reconditioning and decorating pre-owned<br />
trainers, eradicating the use of plastic straws by<br />
developing reusable metal ones and producing a<br />
natural household cleaner.<br />
AND THEIR SUCCESS is no less impressive. Last<br />
year, 91% of the businesses it supported made<br />
a profit, and some endure even after their<br />
student founders move on. “A few years back<br />
a group of [16- to 18-year-olds] suggested a<br />
project called Lease 2 Learn,” says Muirhead.<br />
They’d identified a lot of digital poverty in<br />
their area. They knew their school had some<br />
old laptops, and they asked if they could<br />
refurbish and repurpose them and then lease<br />
them to families who didn’t have computers.<br />
They took a loan of £280 and over the course<br />
of the six-month programme they turned a<br />
profit of more than £5,000. Great profit, great<br />
social enterprise, great identifying of need and<br />
DAVID VINTINER<br />
MAN IN THE MIDDLE<br />
Peter Jones uses his<br />
own experiences to teach<br />
and inspire<br />
TALE OF SUCCESS<br />
Ross Bailey went from a Peter<br />
Jones Foundation course at<br />
16 to creating a multimillionpound<br />
company<br />
addressing it.” (Not everything turns a profit, in<br />
which case, the loan is written off.)<br />
If the Tycoon competition is core to<br />
the foundation’s mission to encourage, its<br />
educational strand comprises a raft of courses<br />
and qualifications for 16-plus students run<br />
in conjunction with the education publisher<br />
Pearson and offered through a network of Peter<br />
Jones Enterprise Academies (PJEAs). These<br />
aren’t actually bricks-and-mortar colleges with<br />
their own staff, but projects run alongside<br />
existing business departments in schools and<br />
colleges across the UK, as well as China and<br />
the UAE – and even farther afield soon, as<br />
international expansion plans are in play.<br />
PJEA status is, in effect, a way of adding<br />
value, enabling schools and colleges to, as<br />
Muirhead puts it, position themselves “as<br />
centres of excellence”. The foundation trains<br />
existing teachers to deliver its courses, provides<br />
masterclasses with entrepreneurs, and guest<br />
speakers and webinars intended “to link<br />
learning with earning”. Again, much of the work<br />
is project-based and reflective of “real world”<br />
opportunities and dilemmas. And of course,<br />
there’s a competitive element, as students<br />
compete with each other both in challenges<br />
set by real companies and for investment of<br />
£5,000 and the title National Entrepreneur of<br />
the Year, for which a shortlist is invited to pitch<br />
a new business, Dragons’ Den-style, to Jones<br />
and a panel of his peers.<br />
Of course, education is a never-ending<br />
process, and networking is critical to all<br />
businesses, to which end there’s also an<br />
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alumni network to enable those who’ve<br />
attended its academies to move on, whether it’s<br />
finding an apprenticeship or “incubator space<br />
with one of our business partners”. And already<br />
a virtuous circle is forming as successful<br />
alumni grow into supporters.<br />
Take Ross Bailey, who in 2009 attended the<br />
first Peter Jones Foundation course, aged just<br />
16. “I got good grades, but I didn’t want to go to<br />
university,” he says. “So I thought I’ll do this for<br />
a year and see what happens. My parents ran a<br />
hair salon, so in a way they were entrepreneurs,<br />
but I’d never met real businessmen, and it was<br />
fascinating to be taught by them. The thing about<br />
business is that there’s so much more than you<br />
find in a textbook: it’s about curiosity, and guts,<br />
and people, and finding out how to make things<br />
connect and stick. There are no correct answers.<br />
It gave you the idea that anything was possible.”<br />
Crucially, too, it also taught him “how to spot an<br />
opportunity and focus on it”. And in 20<strong>13</strong>, he did<br />
just that, founding Appear Here.<br />
Pitched as an “Airbnb for retail”, it matches<br />
businesses and nascent entrepreneurs seeking<br />
space for pop-up ventures with landlords who<br />
have empty shops that can be rented by the day.<br />
Five years later, “We had a business valued at<br />
more than £100 million.” Today it has offices in<br />
London, Paris, New York and Amsterdam; and<br />
Apple, Chanel, Nike and Spotify among 200,000-<br />
plus companies signed up to its services.<br />
IN LIGHT OF THE CHALLENGES facing the retail sector<br />
even before the pandemic, it could hardly be<br />
timelier. But as Muirhead says, “Whenever you<br />
go through a massive shift like this, there are<br />
opportunities. And opportunity is bread and<br />
butter for entrepreneurs. So I think the work<br />
that we’re doing is really relevant to the times<br />
we are living in.”<br />
Not least, too, because “one of the impacts<br />
of COVID, and the even greater economic crisis<br />
we’re facing up to when the immediate health<br />
crisis subsides, will be the increasing number<br />
of NEETS [not in education, employment, or<br />
training]. We’re going to need jobs and job<br />
creators more than ever.” And in his opinion, only<br />
the Nordic countries are really getting enterprise<br />
and entrepreneurship education right.<br />
“If you look at education in Scandinavia,<br />
entrepreneurship is a lot more embedded in the<br />
curriculum,” he says. “Pretty much every student<br />
will come out of the education system having<br />
had the experience of setting up and running a<br />
EARLY START<br />
The foundation aims<br />
to encourage, educate<br />
and empower<br />
business. And as a result, young people see<br />
entrepreneurship not as a scary option but as<br />
a career to consider.” He points to the finding<br />
that 74% of the students who took part in<br />
the Tycoon competition last year said it “had<br />
encouraged them to set up their own business<br />
in the future”, suggesting it’s a training that can’t<br />
start soon enough.<br />
But then Muirhead knows first-hand what<br />
it’s like to spot an opportunity and act on it,<br />
having set up a bar himself, this time in Chile,<br />
when it was emerging from the Pinochet era<br />
in the 1990s.<br />
“I’d been travelling and was teaching<br />
English in Santiago, where there was a growing<br />
community of expat Americans and Australians”<br />
working in the mining industry and who liked a<br />
drink. But there was nowhere much to go. So<br />
he and a group of partners leased a property in<br />
Providencia, now one of the city’s go-to places<br />
for bars, refurbished it with a glass floor under<br />
which they displayed advertising, sales from<br />
which “effectively covered the rent” and secured<br />
press coverage when it opened “to a real buzz”.<br />
It was a steep learning curve, he says. “And it<br />
also was quite successful.” But he hadn’t meant<br />
to settle in South America, and after three and<br />
half years, he sold his share, returned to London<br />
and eventually pursued a more corporate path,<br />
latterly at Coca-Cola. “Employers will always<br />
need enterprise skills,” he says. “But more than<br />
that, the world needs entrepreneurs. We’re going<br />
to need young wealth creators to get us through<br />
the economic challenges we’re facing like never<br />
before.” peterjonesfoundation.org<br />
CASEY GUTTERIDGE<br />
NetJets<br />
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HIGH LIFE<br />
EVEN BY THE EXCLUSIVE strata of hospitality in<br />
the British Virgin Islands, Oil Nut Bay occupies a<br />
rarified perch, quite literally: spread across 162<br />
hectares and surrounded by the Caribbean Sea<br />
on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other,<br />
the resort and multigenerational eco-sensitive<br />
community is located on the eastern tip of Virgin<br />
Gorda. Once on-site, guests can avail themselves<br />
of a whole host of suites and private customdesigned<br />
villas that are sensitively speckled into<br />
the island’s topography, including The Beach<br />
House: an outsized six-bedroom dwelling,<br />
complete with a bronze sculpture by British artist<br />
Simon Gudgeon, an infinity pool and terrace,<br />
and a palm-studded path down to the sugarcane<br />
littoral below.<br />
For those who wish to linger a bit longer,<br />
myriad real estate options also abound with<br />
pricing from $2.95 to $50 million. The latest<br />
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Villas, beautiful three-bedroom tropical retreats<br />
located on the water’s edge with zero setback<br />
and pricing from $5.95 million. A whole raft of<br />
diversionary activities are also available – from a<br />
beach club with three pools and a swim-up bar;<br />
wellness centre with gym and two tennis courts;<br />
equipment for kayaking, sailing, snorkelling and<br />
diving; and world-class dining options, there is no<br />
shortage of things to do. Indeed, beach volleyball<br />
is a popular pastime, as are fishing excursions.<br />
But the resort isn’t resting on its vaunted<br />
laurels: it has recently debuted a new Marina<br />
Village with an overwater restaurant and bar,<br />
suspended pool with hammocks and daybeds,<br />
a game room, a 93-slip marina capable of<br />
accommodating yachts up to 40 metres, as well<br />
as a market and boutique. And it has plans for a<br />
soon-to-launch day spa with outdoor showers, a<br />
watersports centre, an art gallery, additional retail<br />
options, and an interactive nature centre – all<br />
of which means that this unique lotusland will<br />
continue to remain at the top of its game for years<br />
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PICTURES OF PARADISE<br />
Clockwise, from above:<br />
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view of the resort;<br />
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beach club<br />
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SMALL BUT BEAUTIFUL<br />
From top: the classic<br />
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Baby II<br />
A Study in Miniature<br />
IN 1926, ETTORE BUGATTI, founder<br />
of the eponymous automobile<br />
firm, had the idea to create a<br />
scaled-down version of his Type<br />
35 for his son’s fourth birthday.<br />
The result was the Bugatti Baby<br />
that became a design icon,<br />
and the 500 vehicles made<br />
are centerpieces in collections<br />
worldwide of those fortunate<br />
to have acquired one. Almost<br />
a century later, The Little Car<br />
Company, experts in producing<br />
authentic, hand built junior cars,<br />
has produced a new beautifully<br />
crafted version at its Oxfordshire,<br />
UK, base.<br />
The Bugatti Baby II retains<br />
much of the original styling and<br />
charm, yet has been updated<br />
for contemporary tastes and<br />
technology. Whereas the original<br />
was a 50%-scale version, these<br />
new iterations, which come in<br />
three versions – Base, Vitesse and<br />
Pur Sang models – are 75% to<br />
cater for ages 14 and above, all<br />
featuring an electric rear-wheel<br />
drive powertrain with replaceable<br />
lithium-ion batteries.<br />
The Little Car Company CEO<br />
Ben Hedley gives further context:<br />
“As a counterpoint to Bugatti’s<br />
production car world speed record<br />
[in 2019], we have developed<br />
a vehicle that you can enjoy at<br />
much lower speeds with your<br />
children and grandchildren.”<br />
It’s not the only iconic model<br />
that the firm has been working on,<br />
however. In August, it announced<br />
the production of the Aston Martin<br />
DB5 Junior, a 66%-scale version<br />
of the vehicle dubbed “arguably<br />
the most famous car in the world”.<br />
Just 1,059 of the mini cars will<br />
be made – equal to the number of<br />
the 1963 original produced—and<br />
will come in two electric versions,<br />
the DB5 Junior and the DB5<br />
Vantage Junior. While the former<br />
has three driving modes – Novice,<br />
Expert and Race – the latter adds<br />
a fourth, Vantage mode, which<br />
doubles the output to <strong>13</strong>.4 bhp.<br />
An intriguing blend of<br />
modern technology and classic<br />
design, The Little Car Company’s<br />
creations bring together<br />
generations of car lovers,<br />
ensuring much-loved cars will<br />
capture the imagination long into<br />
the future. thelittlecar.co<br />
VINTAGE ART<br />
Montreal-based wine accessory creator CellArt specialises in<br />
handcrafted accoutrements to enhance the experience for the<br />
sophisticated enophile, exemplified by the Le Présentoir from its<br />
Les Irremplaçables collection. The distinctive display comes in a<br />
variety of natural woods – including in black walnut, left – and<br />
each piece is emblazoned with a brass-finish coin. cellart.com<br />
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Staying Safe<br />
A trio of NetJets partners is making sure<br />
travellers are secure from door to door<br />
FOR THOSE ROAD WARRIORS still needing (or wanting) to<br />
travel, the emphasis has morphed from thread counts<br />
and gourmet meals to health and hygiene. Whether<br />
it’s social distancing, touchless interactions or limitedcontact<br />
services, au fait travellers are putting a premium<br />
on ensuring a safe and secure bubble when they are<br />
away from home. It’s a good thing, then, that hospitality<br />
brands are hyperfocused on cleanliness, among them<br />
three NetJets partner hotel groups, each of which has<br />
created programmes that cater to a strict set of protocols<br />
for guests from check-in to checkout.<br />
Four Seasons (fourseasons.com), for example, has<br />
partnered up with Johns Hopkins Medicine International<br />
to inform the Toronto-based brand on health and safety<br />
decisions during the evolving pandemic. Grounded in<br />
the principles of care, trust and service, the Lead With<br />
Care programme was launched in June and has led to<br />
implementation of stringent procedures and rigorous<br />
practices at the brand’s properties around the world.<br />
For its part, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group<br />
(mandarinoriental.com) has launched We Care – a<br />
programme with precautionary measures designed<br />
to safeguard the health and safety of guests and<br />
employees alike. In addition to having face masks,<br />
disinfectant hand sanitisers and disposable gloves at<br />
hand, luggage can be sanitised with ultraviolet light,<br />
bedding and linens are washed daily at 70°C to ensure<br />
sterilisation, and guest rooms remain unoccupied for a<br />
48-hour period following checkout.<br />
Meanwhile, Bulgari Hotels (bulgarihotels.com) has<br />
established a Cleanliness Experts Council, consisting of<br />
in-house and outside expertise in everything from food<br />
and water safety to hygiene and infection prevention.<br />
That translates to rooms and suites being cleaned with<br />
hospital-grade disinfectants and rolling out the wider use<br />
of ultraviolet light technology throughout its six properties<br />
around the world. When it comes to well-being, there is<br />
no prevarication.<br />
HEALTH AND SAFETY<br />
Four Seasons, top<br />
left, and Mandarin<br />
Oriental, right, have<br />
launched programmes<br />
that emphasise the<br />
importance of hygiene<br />
and good practices<br />
© FOUR SEASONS, © MANDARIN ORIENTAL, ISTOCK<br />
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THE SMART GUIDE<br />
Home Improvements<br />
For those with room to spare, now is the time to<br />
amp up the pleasure pursuits with these cuttingedge<br />
offerings, installations and accoutrements<br />
GOLF SIMULATORS<br />
Endorsed by Tiger Woods and the officially licensed simulator of the<br />
PGA, FULL SWING (fullswinggolf.com) features clubhead analysis,<br />
ball-flight tracking and virtual greens using PuttView projection.<br />
With similar swing- and ball-tracking, GOLFZON’s (golfzongolf.com)<br />
Vision Premium’s moving platform provides sidehill, uphill and<br />
downhill lies on three surfaces – fairways, rough and sand – across<br />
190 courses. The FORESIGHT (foresightsports.eu) GCQuad’s four<br />
cameras, meanwhile, take 200 pictures during impact, providing<br />
exceptionally accurate strike and shot data.<br />
HOME BOWLING ALLEY<br />
Some public recreational venues are taking a hit, so installing<br />
a bowling alley at home is one solution. Market leader MURREY<br />
BOWLING (murreybowling.com) has been in the business since<br />
1938, with its fully equipped two-lane design a particular domestic<br />
favourite. BRUNSWICK (brunswickbowling.com) installs synthetic<br />
lanes with an endless array of customisation options in the US and<br />
Europe using flexible solutions to accommodate almost any space.<br />
Stylish lounge seating completes the striking approach.<br />
WINE CELLARS<br />
Time to wine down – with access to bars and clubs limited, one of<br />
SPIRAL CELLARS’ (spiralcellars.co.uk) space-saving underground<br />
cellars adds sociable value. The descending spiral design with<br />
stylish glass doors provides perfect cellaring for up to 1,900 bottles.<br />
In the US, GENUWINECELLARS (genuwinecellars.com) carries the<br />
spiral, plus its own Sommelier Select range of hand-finished, custom<br />
wine racking and bespoke millwork designs. On an altogether smaller<br />
scale, the multi-temperature-controlled LIEBHERR VINOTHEK<br />
(home.liebherr.com) holds up to 200 bottles.<br />
HOME CINEMA<br />
The right projector is the heartbeat of any home setup. SONY’s (sony.<br />
com) Ultra-Short Throw 4K HDR Home Theater Projector produces a<br />
3m-wide picture with professional resolution from just 2.5m away.<br />
OPTOMA (optoma.com) has an extensive array of projectors at<br />
different price points, with the top of the domestic range UHZ65LV as<br />
good for fast-moving sports as movies. The LG CINEBEAM (lg.com)<br />
is a sleek, compact 4K UHD affair with some models featuring built-in<br />
Harman Kardon-designed speaker systems.<br />
IN THE ZONE<br />
Clockwise, from<br />
above: The Full Swing<br />
golf simulator; wine<br />
storage from Spiral<br />
Cellars; the Optoma<br />
UHZ65LV projector;<br />
a Brunswick home<br />
bowling alley<br />
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BEN OTT<br />
WONDER ON WHEELS<br />
THE HANDMADE BODYWORK that encases the front of the BMW<br />
R18 Spirit of Passion evokes an Art Deco feel but is very much<br />
the product of a 2020’s mind. Following on from the successful<br />
transformation of the R18 into a dragster bike by Californian firm<br />
Roland Sands Design, BMW sought further collaborations to<br />
show that its most advanced Boxer model bike was also highly<br />
versatile. In fellow German company Kingston Custom, it found<br />
just the partner to produce a unique specimen to capture the<br />
minds of motorcycle aficionados worldwide. The Gelsenkirchenbased<br />
designer took the unusual step for such remodellings by<br />
adding to the original rather than stripping away – most notably<br />
with a vertical kidney grille and those panels to shield the<br />
wheel suspension and fuel tank. A custom-built saddle was<br />
also created, along with handmade barbell-like handlebars and<br />
a roadster-style exhaust pipe. The visionary behind Kingston<br />
Custom, Dirk Oehlerking, has a history of reimagining BMWs,<br />
yet still found working on an R18 a very special proposition.<br />
“The BMW R18 is so perfect that I left the technology where it<br />
was,” he says. As part of the ongoing Soulfuel project, BMW will<br />
continue to find innovative collaborators to produce one-off and<br />
limited editions. The Spirit of Passion will be a hard act to follow.<br />
bmw-motorrad.com<br />
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TIMELESS OPULENCE<br />
IN THE ALPS<br />
Chalet 1551 provides seclusion, skiing<br />
and superlative service<br />
© CHALET 1551<br />
WARM WELCOME<br />
The rustic-chic of<br />
Chalet 1551’s lounge<br />
IN LECH AM ARLBERG, at the heart of Austria’s premier<br />
ski region, Chalet 1551 is the ultimate in private<br />
Alpine indulgence. The five bedrooms – each<br />
individually designed and with exceptional views –<br />
exude comfort, with furniture and fittings overseen<br />
by Dutch interior design firm Casus Casa, headed<br />
by Wim van de Oudeweetering. A multinational<br />
feel pervades the chalet’s 600 square metres, with<br />
renowned Austrian firm Leitner Leinen supplying the<br />
linen, curtains from Italy’s Etro and sofas handmade<br />
in Spain by Ascension Latorre.<br />
The ski-in, ski-out chalet has unsurpassed<br />
access to some of the best slopes in Europe, but<br />
its amenities ensure that even the most eager skier<br />
will be happy to return at the end of the day. Chief<br />
among these is its dedication to first-class cuisine.<br />
A state-of-the-art private kitchen is overseen by<br />
Richard van Oostenbrugge and Thomas Groot of<br />
Amsterdam’s Michelin-starred Restaurant 212. The<br />
culinary team is at your disposal to create a range<br />
of gastronomic experiences with produce sourced<br />
from local farmers and partners, complemented by<br />
the well-stocked wine cellar.<br />
Optimum wellbeing is on tap, too, in the chalet’s<br />
private spa, which features a massage room, three<br />
different saunas (hammam, infrared cabin and<br />
Finnish), an onsite Ayurvedic practitioner and a<br />
10m indoor pool. Or simply relax in the sumptuous<br />
lounge with open fireplace, and revel in bespoke<br />
service from the seasoned staff in one of the Alps’<br />
most magnificent chalets. This year will also see<br />
further renovation, with 200sq m and a new kitchen<br />
added to the chalet and the pool extended outside<br />
so guests can swim in and out. chalet1551.com<br />
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PROMOTION<br />
Educating the Leaders of Tomorrow<br />
Institut auf dem Rosenberg, the Swiss boarding school redefining education<br />
The rapid advance of technology<br />
and its transformative power<br />
is affecting societies and<br />
economies worldwide. According to a<br />
new report by researcher Euromonitor<br />
International and leading Swiss<br />
boarding school Institut auf dem<br />
Rosenberg, traditional education<br />
systems are failing to prepare students<br />
for the 21st-century workplace – with<br />
65 per cent of primary-school children<br />
likely to work in jobs that do not<br />
yet exist.<br />
It is for this reason that Rosenberg<br />
is challenging standard education<br />
systems with his pioneering Talent and<br />
Enrichment programme consisting of<br />
over one hundred “co-curricular” courses<br />
which run alongside five traditional<br />
education pathways. The programme is<br />
aimed at nurturing important human<br />
skills such as creativity, ethics and public<br />
speaking while encouraging students to<br />
embrace technology from an early age.<br />
Set within nearly 10 hectares of private<br />
parkland, overlooking the historic town<br />
of St Gallen, the school features state-ofthe-art<br />
facilities, such as a Creative Lab<br />
and a Future Park, where students learn<br />
from expert partners including ETH<br />
Zurich university, SAGA space architects<br />
and robotics specialists Boston Dynamics.<br />
In this unique learning environment,<br />
students excel academically – over 85% of<br />
all grades in the 2020 A-levels were A or<br />
A*. Students gain real-world experience,<br />
leaving school equipped with the tools<br />
they need to take on the challenges of the<br />
21st century.<br />
For more information, please visit instrosenberg.ch<br />
Institut auf dem Rosenberg, Höhenweg 60, 9000 St Gallen, Switzerland
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Spirits of Adventure<br />
A selection of elixirs that prove a sense of the unknown<br />
can still mix with the most traditional of methods<br />
1 2 3 4 5<br />
9<br />
6 7 8<br />
10<br />
1 MIDLETON VERY RARE 2019 Combining only hand-selected single pot still and single grain Irish whiskeys from the Cork distillery, this<br />
is the 36th edition of a much-lauded range. midletonveryrare.com // 2 COTSWOLDS SINGLE MALT WHISKY Matured in sherry casks, this<br />
rare English batch has rich, fruity, spicy and nutty flavours to complement the underlying malt character. cotswoldsdistillery.com // 3<br />
DOMAINES HINE BONN<strong>EU</strong>IL 2010 From the heart of the Champagne region, this cognac exemplifies the unique mineral makeup of its terroir.<br />
hinecognac.com // 4 SPIRITED UNION RUM The Amsterdam-based maker of botanical rum has produced three new versions of its naturally<br />
flavoured tipple, including Sweet Orange & Ginger. spirited-union.com // 5 WESTWARD AMERICAN SINGLE MALT PINOT NOIR CASK The<br />
third in the Oregon distillery’s permanent expressions has been created alongside a handful of iconic Willamette Valley wine producers.<br />
westwardwhiskey.com // 6 COMPASS BOX MAGIC CASK BLENDED MALT SCOTCH WHISKY The Scottish whiskymaker has conjured another<br />
iteration of its otherworldy blend finished in a sherry-seasoned cask. compassboxwhisky.com // 7 TEN TO ONE RESERVE Trinidadian Marc<br />
Farrell unveils his first reserve rum, a 17-year-old limited edition that has been aged in ex-bourbon American oak barrels. tentoonerum.com<br />
// 8 DIMA’S VODKA Produced from Ukraine’s überfertile black “chernozem supersoil,” three grains – rye, wheat and barley – go into creating<br />
a smooth, crystal-clear vodka. dimasvodka.com // 9 RAMPUR ASAVA From the foothills of the Himalayas, this single malt is finished<br />
in Indian cabernet sauvignon casks. rampursinglemalt.com // 10 THE DEVIL’S KEEP This triple-distilled, 29-year-old single malt from<br />
Ireland’s Craft Irish Whiskey Co. recently became the world’s most expensive inaugural release ever. craftirishwhiskey.com<br />
TALES FROM THE LAND<br />
Making a compelling case for location being as important a factor in the production of whiskey<br />
as it is in wine, Rob Arnold takes a journey through the US, Scotland and Ireland to chronicle the<br />
works of a new generation reviving old grain flavours and inventing new ones. In The Terroir of<br />
Whiskey: A Distiller’s Journey into the Flavor of Place, Arnold meets the artisans responsible for<br />
reversing a trend when less identifiable flavours were favoured to aid mass production, proving<br />
that while they may never mix well, the grape and the grain have much in common when it<br />
comes to producing distinctive tastes that owe much to their place of origin. cup.columbia.edu<br />
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A PROUD CUSTODIAN<br />
OF THE SPIRIT OF SCOTLAND<br />
Justerini & Brooks. Two centuries of rare and fine whiskies.<br />
Justerinis.com/rare-whisky
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SHAPING TIMES Matthew Shlian’s<br />
monograph includes 200 illustrations<br />
of his most striking works<br />
PAPER TWISTS<br />
DESPITE HAVING TRAINED IN ceramics, the Michigan-based artist Matthew<br />
Shlian has fashioned an absorbing career using paper as his medium<br />
of choice. A fascination with geometry also informs his work, which<br />
encompasses a collection of sculptures that, for the first time, are<br />
captured in a monograph. Featuring 200 illustrations, Unfolding: The<br />
Paper Art and Science of Matthew Shlian also has interviews with the<br />
artist and contributions from experts, including a specialist in the sort<br />
of intricate Islamic design that increasingly influences Shlian’s work.<br />
A simple material becomes stunning art through “folding, tesselating,<br />
compressing, and extrapolating”, which finds a fitting home in a tome<br />
printed on differing paper stock and presented in a way that also explores<br />
the limit of artistic creation. thameshudson.com<br />
© THAMES & HUDSON (3), DAVID DUCHON-DORIS<br />
FUTURE RIDES<br />
Epitomising its founder Simon Dabadie’s quest to<br />
create the most audacious of motorcycle brands,<br />
French firm DAB Motors has reinvented itself. As<br />
Dabadie says, “We want to show how you can<br />
still push the boundaries.” With the latest model<br />
pictured left with a Delorean car, an ambitious<br />
project from years gone by, the firm is certainly<br />
thinking along revolutionary lines. dabmotors.com<br />
Compiled by Farhad Heydari, John McNamara and Peter Swain<br />
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Nested on a gorgeous private sandy beach, Porto Zante Villas & Spa on<br />
the Greek Island of Zakynthos is an award-winning hideaway of worldclass<br />
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Selected as one of the 24 Ultraluxe Resorts in the World by Virtuoso for<br />
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Nast Traveller’s Gold List, Porto Zante Villas & Spa is a wonderfully discreet<br />
hideaway, choice of famous clientele from all over the world. A member of<br />
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION<br />
Call +30 210 8218640 or +44 (0)20 8882 6767, email reservations@portozante.com or visit portozante.com
PROMOTION<br />
HOW TO REACH<br />
Escape to Porto Zante Villas & Spa in under two hours from most major<br />
European cities either by private jet or via one of the direct non-stop<br />
flights to the island during the summer.<br />
WORLD-CLASS VILLAS<br />
Imagine your own beachfront estate, nestled between the magnificent<br />
natural beauty of lush tropical gardens, azure skies and set on a<br />
picture-perfect turquoise sea. Nine stunning world-class villas are built<br />
amphitheatrically over a secluded sandy beach and boast private heated<br />
pools and stunning views of the Ionian Sea, creating an escape in the<br />
truest sense of the word. Inside these super-luxe havens, selected Armani/<br />
Casa and Kettal/Gervasoni furniture add to the laidback glamorous<br />
aesthetic; the divine marble bathrooms are equipped with Bulgari guest<br />
amenities, while cutting-edge technology is represented by Bang &<br />
Olufsen entertainment systems and iMac desktops.<br />
BESPOKE EXPERIENCES<br />
In case you wish to emerge from your private cocoon and the 24-hour<br />
in-villa dining service – ideally complementing the Club House Greek &<br />
Mediterranean Restaurant and the Maya Contemporary Asian Restaurant<br />
– an array of luxury experiences and fun activities awaits. Delicious<br />
dining in one of the resort’s open-air restaurants, private training in the<br />
resorts’ Gym by Technogym, yoga sessions on the tip of the water, both<br />
motorised and non-motorised water sports for all ages, private yacht<br />
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like Ancient Olympia, birthplace of Olympic Games, sample fine wines at<br />
the local vineyard, or – naturally – a signature zen spa treatment. Awarded<br />
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cobalt waters of the Ionian Sea and excels in over 20 therapies inspired by<br />
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therapists, the staff at the Kids’ Club oversees children’s entertainment and<br />
organises fun activities. It is all dedicated to fun!
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A SURPRISING VISIONARY<br />
Rolls-Royce, that bastion of traditional automotive values, is transforming<br />
what a car manufacturer can be with a powerful mobile app, at-home<br />
services and, of course, vehicles that go above and beyond<br />
BRIGHT FUTURE<br />
Rolls-Royce is embracing modern trends<br />
with its Neon Nights colour scheme<br />
and an app offering unique experiences<br />
among the latest developments<br />
ALL IMAGES COURTESY ROLLS-ROYCE<br />
BUSY IS NOT A WORD you<br />
associate with a brand as<br />
unflustered and unflappable<br />
as Rolls-Royce, but the<br />
English marque – which<br />
has had the famous Spirit<br />
of Ecstasy badge on its cars<br />
since 1911 – continues to<br />
adopt a progressive and<br />
front-foot approach as we<br />
pass through the formative<br />
years of what promises to be<br />
the most disruptive decade in<br />
automotive history.<br />
As well as launching an<br />
all-new, tech-laden update of<br />
its “baby Roller” Ghost model<br />
in 2020 (see sidebar), bringing<br />
its portfolio up to five, the<br />
brand has ramped up its edgier<br />
and more attention-grabbing<br />
side by expanding its Black<br />
Badge limited-edition line to<br />
now include a Neon Nights<br />
colour scheme – perfect for<br />
any customers who might want<br />
their new Wraith, Cullinan, or<br />
Dawn in hues such as lime<br />
rock green, mirabeau blue or<br />
eagle rock red.<br />
Part of the point of such<br />
initiatives, of course, is to<br />
project a modern spirit, as<br />
well as attract and serve a<br />
younger and perhaps more<br />
experimental customer – the<br />
current average age for owners<br />
is 43, the lowest in its history,<br />
while almost every car that is<br />
built at its Goodwood base, 60<br />
miles south of London, could<br />
now be described as bespoke.<br />
With all this in mind,<br />
Rolls-Royce announced last<br />
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year that it had recruited a<br />
design studio to update its<br />
brand identity, in order to, in the<br />
words of CEO Torsten Müller-<br />
Ötvös, “echo those changes<br />
seen in our portfolio, our client<br />
demographic, their lifestyle, and<br />
the luxury world that surrounds<br />
them”. After all, Rolls-Royce’s<br />
digital presence has expanded<br />
significantly in recent years,<br />
creating many more channels<br />
through which customers can<br />
interact. Indeed, increasingly<br />
Rolls-Royce has repositioned<br />
itself as a luxury lifestyle brand<br />
rather than purely a maker of<br />
exceptional cars.<br />
All these considerations<br />
were well demonstrated back<br />
in February 2020 when the<br />
marque, owned by BMW<br />
Group, revealed that it was<br />
introducing for customers a<br />
digital members’ club known<br />
as Whispers, which, via<br />
an app, would bring to the<br />
attention of its demanding<br />
and discerning community a<br />
series of rare products and<br />
rarefied experiences.<br />
Sourced and curated by<br />
an intriguingly titled division<br />
called the Luxury Intelligence<br />
Unit, the service, in fact,<br />
began in 2018 on a selective<br />
beta basis. Customer feedback<br />
over this period was such that<br />
it has now been rolled out to<br />
its global customer base.<br />
The effects of COVID-19<br />
required the team to change<br />
the focus of its original offering<br />
somewhat: where previously<br />
travel experiences like an<br />
expedition to Antarctica may<br />
have been the norm, offers<br />
became more centred on<br />
the home and family, the<br />
opportunity to collect first<br />
editions of The Wind in the<br />
Willows for example, or private<br />
virtual cooking lessons with<br />
world-renowned chefs.<br />
Alongside such<br />
opportunities, the app also<br />
houses a range of tailored<br />
content, recent examples of<br />
which include a long-form<br />
interview with Chinese artist<br />
Cao Fei on the future of video<br />
art, and a curated list of the<br />
best live safari streams at a<br />
time when the real thing just<br />
isn’t possible.<br />
At-home virtual experiences<br />
have proven particularly<br />
popular, from live theatre<br />
performances to spa packages,<br />
provided alongside partner<br />
hotels. Like any club, there is<br />
also a social side on offer. Here<br />
members have the chance to<br />
message one another directly.<br />
Unsurprisingly, Rolls-Royce has<br />
made security a priority.<br />
In some ways, Whispers<br />
represents an extension of the<br />
brand’s existing one-to-one<br />
“private office” approach to<br />
customer relationships. But<br />
Rolls-Royce didn’t have to<br />
develop, launch and maintain<br />
something that, on paper at<br />
least, sits so far outside its core<br />
skill set. That it has done so<br />
successfully is testament not<br />
only to the ambition within<br />
Rolls-Royce right now but<br />
also of the carmaker’s acute<br />
awareness of the brand it wants<br />
to become. – Will Hersey<br />
THE NEW GHOST<br />
If ever there was a motoring equivalent of the<br />
swan’s surface serenity and furious unseen<br />
work below, then the all-new Ghost would<br />
be it. Unveiled in September, the secondgeneration<br />
version of the car first introduced<br />
as the smaller, more accessible Rolls-Royce<br />
back in 2009 – which became the most<br />
successful car in its history – has been<br />
designed with an even purer expression of<br />
those classic lines on the outside. But inside<br />
it’s the most technically advanced Rolls-<br />
Royce ever made.<br />
Top billing on this front goes to the<br />
Planar suspension system that manages to<br />
improve, however imperceptibly, on what<br />
was already an impeccably smooth ride and<br />
passenger experience. Cabin acoustics and<br />
noise reduction have been another focus,<br />
enhanced by the car’s new aluminium<br />
underpinnings, while the entire cabin has<br />
been tuned to a specific frequency known<br />
internally as “the whisper”.<br />
The overall less-is-more theme is carried<br />
through into the dashboard design, where<br />
fewer instrument panels and simpler<br />
controls belie the range and complexity of<br />
the functions available. The quality of finish<br />
is, of course, hard to improve upon, which<br />
just leaves that 6.75-litre twin-turbo V-12,<br />
effortlessly producing 563bhp on request, to<br />
remind its driver that this is also a majestic<br />
mode of transport and not a living room. To<br />
demonstrate the level of work and attention<br />
to detail on show in this car, the fact that only<br />
the Spirit of Ecstasy and the umbrellas have<br />
been carried over from its predecessor kind of<br />
says it all. rolls-roycemotorcars.com – WH<br />
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NOTES FROM <strong>NETJETS</strong><br />
IN CONVERSATION WITH<br />
CHRISTIAN<br />
LUWISCH<br />
The NetJets Executive Director<br />
was elevated to his new post<br />
during a year unlike any other.<br />
Having held a variety of senior<br />
roles, including most recently<br />
Chief Financial Officer, the 18-<br />
year company veteran not only<br />
navigated the challenges of 2020<br />
but also led his European team<br />
through an unprecedented year of<br />
uncertainty and upheaval. In his<br />
first in-depth interview, he speaks<br />
about the measures the company<br />
has undertaken to ensure safety<br />
and security, reflects on the past<br />
12 months and expresses optimism<br />
about the future of the business.<br />
Historical Perspective and Future Proofing<br />
Being on the job since 2003 gives you a<br />
deep understanding and overall knowledge<br />
of the business and the company culture.<br />
I started when we were quite small and<br />
then we grew to have a larger footprint,<br />
but, of course, we had to regress because<br />
of the financial crisis in 2008 before we<br />
could build the business back up again.<br />
I’ve seen the good and the bad and I really<br />
understand our culture, our people and<br />
our core values. Despite the challenges of<br />
the past year, today we’re a much more<br />
resilient business thanks to the lessons we<br />
learned in 2008. And we will emerge from<br />
the pandemic much stronger.<br />
Markets, Options and Products<br />
One of the reasons we are in a stronger<br />
position is because the size of the potential<br />
market has increased. Today, we are being<br />
purveyed by a much broader demographic<br />
who wish to join us given the perceptions<br />
pertaining to flying commercial for one’s<br />
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“Our Owners are our best<br />
ambassadors, and they are even<br />
more generous in their praise for<br />
us during the pandemic”<br />
health and convenience. This sudden<br />
increase provides a huge opportunity for<br />
us to adapt our products for this new<br />
phase. And that’s exactly what we are<br />
going to do. So, all in all, we’re the best<br />
option available, and we’re already seeing<br />
more people joining the programme.<br />
Investing in Core Values<br />
In crafting new products, we will not<br />
abandon our core values of safety and<br />
service because they are part of our<br />
DNA. We will be investing much more in<br />
both so that when you fly with us, you<br />
feel that you are getting the best value<br />
and a hassle-free experience – that, in<br />
short, you get anywhere you want to go,<br />
anytime. For example, we will be not<br />
only investing in faster broadband access<br />
on board and improving the booking<br />
experience, but also becoming much<br />
more competitive during the off-peak<br />
season where we have more capacity as<br />
we’re a much more seasonal business in<br />
Europe. We know there is competition<br />
out there, but we ensure unimpeachable<br />
safety, the best service and products,<br />
and the newest and best planes to<br />
demonstrate that we are the leader in<br />
private aviation.<br />
European Travel in 2020<br />
As you know, there were a lot of entry<br />
and exit protocols that came into force in<br />
several countries throughout the year. Our<br />
teams quickly and successfully adapted to<br />
the rules and regulations. Of course, we<br />
had fewer flights with the restrictions, but<br />
the complexity per flight was exponential:<br />
substantially more paperwork for each<br />
flight to ensure we were compliant for<br />
this patchwork of border and demarcation<br />
procedures. This is where the experience<br />
of all our teams differentiates us from the<br />
competition and truly enables us to make<br />
travel as seamless as possible.<br />
The Falcon Returns<br />
In hindsight, the decisions we took<br />
pertaining to reinstating the Falcon fleet<br />
are a testament to the resilience of our<br />
business model, our Owners and their<br />
loyalty. We rectified the Falcon removal<br />
as fast as we could, listened to our<br />
Owners, and brought the aircraft back into<br />
circulation. Our Owners can see that we<br />
are the leading provider in private aviation.<br />
It is a volatile business environment but,<br />
because of our longevity and experience,<br />
we’re always going to be the stable player<br />
– this is why we acquire so many new<br />
customers by referral.<br />
Seamless and Safe Travel<br />
Our Owners are our best ambassadors,<br />
and they are even more generous in their<br />
praise for us during the pandemic. In<br />
2020 we invested more than $16 million<br />
in our global response to COVID-19 to<br />
include The NetJets Clean – a multitiered<br />
aircraft cleaning programme. That’s<br />
how we make sure that travel with us is<br />
seamless and protected.<br />
<strong>2021</strong>: The Business Year Ahead<br />
I’m delighted to have been chosen<br />
to lead NetJets Europe, much as I<br />
have been doing strategically and<br />
commercially for many of the past<br />
18 years, and of course, to continue<br />
serving our Owners, many of whom I<br />
know personally. I’ll be reaching out to<br />
those whom I don’t know – and I would<br />
encourage them to do the same: I’m<br />
available and at their disposal. I am<br />
looking forward to continuing our success<br />
and growth in Europe, with all elements<br />
of the business (human resources to<br />
economic and environmental) being<br />
sustainable on all fronts. That includes<br />
governance: I want every element to be<br />
completely transparent.<br />
Events and Experiences<br />
This has been one of the most frustrating<br />
elements of the pandemic, and we<br />
can’t wait to go back to our events<br />
programme. We are, of course, cautiously<br />
but optimistically looking into how the<br />
situation with COVID-19 is evolving. With<br />
the vaccine being rolled out right now,<br />
we hope things will get better and are<br />
therefore planning to once again have<br />
a full roster of our rarefied and unique<br />
experiences to excite our NetJets family.<br />
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ZURICH DELIGHT<br />
Beyond its core mission to provide the<br />
world’s best private aviation experience,<br />
NetJets is also dedicated to establishing<br />
alliances and collaborative opportunities<br />
with like-minded partners to offer<br />
superlative experiences in beautiful,<br />
must-visit locations. One such partner is<br />
Baur au Lac, set in its own park within<br />
easy reach of Zurich’s financial district,<br />
but also in touching distance of the city’s<br />
namesake lake and the Alps. This idyllic<br />
location enables a new initiative from the<br />
hotel: the Best of Baur Au Lac, whereby<br />
guests can enjoy the full range of superb<br />
services in just 24 hours. The package<br />
includes one night in a junior suite,<br />
private arrival or departure transfer in a<br />
Bentley Flying Spur (within a radius of<br />
12 kilometres), food and beverage credits<br />
worth CHF100, á la carte breakfast and<br />
more. And of course, even a mere day<br />
at Baur au Lac allows time to indulge at<br />
the 120-key hotel’s pride and joy – the<br />
two-Michelin-starred Pavillon restaurant,<br />
where head chef Laurent Eperon creates<br />
21st-century interpretations of classic<br />
haute cuisine. bauraulac.ch<br />
© BAUR AU LAC<br />
<strong>NETJETS</strong> BY THE NUMBERS<br />
CESSNA CITATION<br />
LATITUDE<br />
128<br />
Citation Latitudes in the NetJets<br />
worldwide fleet by the end of<br />
2020 (NetJets has purchased<br />
and operates 50% of all<br />
Citation Latitudes delivered by<br />
Textron Aviation worldwide)<br />
707<br />
NetJets pilots who currently fly the<br />
Citation Latitude. (At the moment<br />
NetJets employs nearly 3,000<br />
active pilots worldwide)<br />
30% LARGER<br />
Latitude’s window size compared with that<br />
of other Citation aircraft. (This allows for<br />
more natural light into the cabin)<br />
26 MINUTES<br />
Time it takes the Citation Latitude to reach<br />
cruising altitude. (Cruising altitude for the<br />
Latitude is 43,000 feet)<br />
60,999<br />
Flights completed on the Citation Latitude<br />
in 2020<br />
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JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
THE ONE DAY AT <strong>NETJETS</strong> I WON’T FORGET<br />
WAS … receiving the email to let me know I<br />
had the job. A dream come true.<br />
CREWMEMBERS IN PROFILE<br />
INGRID CHILTON<br />
Cabin Crew Falcon/Challenger/<br />
GL5000/6000<br />
MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO FLYING WAS …<br />
for Airtours in 2001, my 30th birthday was<br />
celebrated on the initial training course in full<br />
uniform including a hat. I originally thought I<br />
would just try it for a year – almost 20 years<br />
later I am still flying high.<br />
THE BEST PART OF FLYING IS … the variety<br />
of life it provides, from the ever-changing<br />
destinations to the different types of Owners<br />
that we have. It all adds up to an amazing<br />
experience for us as crew as well as the Owners.<br />
BEFORE JOINING THE <strong>NETJETS</strong> <strong>EU</strong> TEAM,<br />
I WAS … working for NetJets Middle East<br />
based in Jeddah and Riyadh and this is where<br />
I realised just what an amazing life/career was<br />
ahead of me.<br />
ONE THING OWNERS PROBABLY<br />
WOULDN’T GUESS ABOUT ME IS … I am<br />
Welsh (most Owners think I am Scandinavian),<br />
and my favourite place is the library. I just love<br />
books. They have been a huge part of my life.<br />
ON MY DAYS OFF … I regularly hike<br />
mountains and when I’m not doing that, I am<br />
shopping for a new house that we are building<br />
– as well as shoes.<br />
WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR I WOULD LIKE … to<br />
learn salsa dancing.<br />
WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS … I would<br />
like to still be able to do the job that I love.<br />
MY BEST ADVICE FOR STAYING SANE AND<br />
ENERGISED ACROSS TIME ZONES … is to<br />
get plenty of rest and keep fit and healthy. A<br />
workout before a night flight has always kept<br />
me awake throughout the night. It just gives<br />
that extra boost that is needed. It has worked<br />
for me for almost 20 years.<br />
MY PROUDEST MOMENT AS A CREW<br />
MEMBER … has been, and is, to say that I<br />
work for NetJets.<br />
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OWNER’S PROFILE<br />
MASTER<br />
OF THE<br />
STRINGS<br />
In the very exclusive world of elite violins, Roman<br />
Goronok is a major figure – and he’s fighting to<br />
keep the centuries-old instruments in circulation<br />
// By Josh Sims<br />
ROMAN GORONOK MIGHT AS well call himself an<br />
art dealer. “These are works of art,” he insists,<br />
“or rather a combination of artwork and tool of<br />
the trade. There’s no difference between a very<br />
fine da Vinci or Rembrandt and one of these.<br />
In terms of their part in an artistic tradition, in<br />
terms of their monumental achievement in what<br />
and how that tradition was expressed, you can<br />
say the same of these as of any painting. More<br />
so, perhaps, because as much as a da Vinci<br />
may be beautiful to the eye, one of these speaks<br />
to more senses than that.”<br />
When Goronok tells people that he’s a violin<br />
broker, they are fascinated if a little confused.<br />
After all, as he admits, the difference between<br />
two inexpensive violins is minimal. But the kind<br />
of instrument he deals with is of a different<br />
echelon altogether, priced in many millions.<br />
They’re the kind of violins that have, over the<br />
last three centuries, been passed between the<br />
very best players like holy relics. “And once a<br />
musician bonds with one of these instruments,<br />
it becomes part of them, more important than<br />
their children,” he only half jokes. “Seriously,<br />
musicians of this calibre keep their violin next to<br />
them in bed.”<br />
Another difference is that the rarefied world<br />
of instruments doesn’t have quite the name<br />
recognition on a public scale as do painters.<br />
Goronok deals in violins made by the likes of<br />
Andrea Amati, Francesco Ruggieri, Giuseppe<br />
Guarneri and the more famed Antonio Stradivari<br />
in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. These<br />
are violins of a craftsmanship and tone that<br />
AT HOME WITH MUSIC<br />
Roman Goronok, who also brokers<br />
cellos and violas along with his first<br />
love, violins<br />
ALUN CALLENDER<br />
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OWNER’S PROFILE<br />
likely will never be seen again. And they’re<br />
increasingly rare. “Say Stradivari made 900<br />
violins in his lifetime. Over the last 300 years a<br />
third have been lost or destroyed and a third are<br />
in museums or private collections, which leaves<br />
only 300 that may one day be available,” says<br />
Goronok, Russian-born but based in London, the<br />
son of a professor of violin and of a violin maker.<br />
“There’s no new supply. And you can’t put a<br />
price on a unique sound.”<br />
AS SUCH, THESE VIOLINS are both extremely<br />
valuable – all the more so depending on<br />
condition, of course, but also provenance,<br />
maker, ownership history – and, what’s<br />
more, never decrease in value. As a result,<br />
his clients include not only conductors and<br />
professional musicians, those looking to fill a<br />
specific gap in their collection, but also those<br />
looking to put their money into a seriously<br />
blue-chip investment – and, thankfully, not<br />
to then secret the instrument away in some<br />
vault, though that does happen on occasion.<br />
“I’m pleased to say that most buyers who<br />
come to me have the education to appreciate<br />
why these violins shouldn’t be hidden away,<br />
which is reassuring,” says Goronok, who also<br />
deals in violas and cellos. But given the number<br />
of violins in an orchestra, and the extent of the<br />
classical music repertoire written for the violin,<br />
he finds that the smallest of his wares are<br />
inevitably where the market is at.<br />
“After all, they are such extraordinary<br />
objects; they deserve to be played,” he adds.<br />
“Most of my job is in finding them, in keeping<br />
track of them – of, as someone once said of<br />
the art world, knowing which painting is on<br />
whose wall. I have my little black book, so<br />
I know where these violins are, who’s using<br />
them, which players may be near the end of<br />
their careers and so looking to release their<br />
instrument back into circulation.”<br />
The job isn’t quite as simple as playing<br />
matchmaker, of course. It also involves<br />
authenticating the instruments, though Goronok<br />
says, “That’s not as scary as it may seem.<br />
Other people have sold and brokered these<br />
instruments for centuries, working out what<br />
is what, and for the last century at least that’s<br />
been well documented too.” These days there’s<br />
also carbon dating and dendrochronology – the<br />
counting of rings through wood to determine<br />
its age – to assuage any last doubts. There are<br />
fakes, but in a market this small, passing one off<br />
is extremely difficult.<br />
What pleases Goronok most about his<br />
work is that it not only brings musician and<br />
instrument together but also allows investors to<br />
act, in effect, as sponsors of the arts by loaning<br />
their violin out to the kind of virtuoso player, or<br />
young player of immense potential, for which it<br />
was in some sense always destined. His dream<br />
is to find evermore enthusiastic clients who can<br />
help to make this happen.<br />
“Because,” as Goronok notes, “if you want<br />
to be a racing driver, it’s no good practising on a<br />
tractor. If you’ve achieved a certain level of selfexpression<br />
with your instrument, you need an<br />
instrument fine enough to allow you to develop<br />
your voice without limits. Obviously, such<br />
instruments are not easy to get access to.”<br />
LENDING OUT SUCH a fine instrument might sound<br />
like foolishness, given cases like that of an<br />
absent-minded British violinist, who in 2019 left<br />
his almost £250,000 violin – made by David<br />
Tecchler in 1709 – on the train. “It was,” the<br />
musician reported, “like having my arm cut off.”<br />
Fortunately, Goronok reassures, most musicians<br />
are consequently overcareful with their antique<br />
charge, and these sonic sculptures are highly<br />
insurable: so well-known are the individual<br />
pieces among the elite violinist circuit that if they<br />
are stolen, they are virtually unsellable on the<br />
black market, which takes away a huge part of<br />
the risk for insurers.<br />
Inevitably, some violins have a special<br />
place even among these finest of instruments.<br />
“Playing the violin is the deepest<br />
form of meditation I know”<br />
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A DEDICATED LIFE<br />
His family’s musical background<br />
instilled a love of violins in Goronok<br />
Is, for example, the oft-cited reputation of a<br />
Stradivarius justified? Goronok explains that<br />
because the violin maker had such a long<br />
career – he lived to 93, notably late for the<br />
18th century – he also had the opportunity to<br />
be a great experimenter, thus not only shaping<br />
the classical music canon but also making<br />
some of its more progressive compositions<br />
possible. Like Picasso, he says, Stradivari had<br />
the violin-making equivalent of his Blue Period,<br />
or of Cubism.<br />
“A Strad,” Goronok says, with the familiarity<br />
that only someone as close to violins like this<br />
could pull off, “can play very quietly, or it can<br />
scream, and since much of the [classical] music<br />
we hear today is romantic, for full orchestra,<br />
it has to be pretty loud. That’s the difference<br />
between a good violin and a very, very, very<br />
fine violin — the good one just won’t have the<br />
power, it won’t have the colours either.”<br />
Goronok speaks with more than the<br />
knowledge that comes from, as he puts it,<br />
being surrounded by violin music from his<br />
earliest memories, or that comes from his<br />
working life. He, too, was a professional<br />
violinist as a young man, until a motorcycle<br />
accident in his twenties ended the likely<br />
prospects of becoming a top player.<br />
“I can’t imagine a life without music, and<br />
playing the violin is still the deepest form of<br />
meditation I know,” he says. “But if you can’t<br />
play [to the standard I’d hoped for] then you<br />
have to find a way of being useful to the art.<br />
I wasn’t a violin maker: you have to be an<br />
excellent carpenter and that wasn’t me. And<br />
I wasn’t interested in managing musicians.<br />
But I found brokering violins, and it’s very<br />
satisfying to be told by a musician that a<br />
certain violin is what they’d been looking for<br />
their entire life, or to know that in helping to<br />
keep an instrument alive it means that certain<br />
pieces of music can still be played as they<br />
were first conceived. If the likes of Beethoven<br />
is worth giving sound to, then you have to<br />
have the right instrument to perform it on.”<br />
But the relative rarity of the masterpieces<br />
he works with makes him wonder if he<br />
may be among the last of his already rather<br />
unusual breed. “Statistically, assuming I work<br />
for another 30 years or so, I’m likely to be<br />
among the last people who will get to handle<br />
these instruments on the open market,”<br />
Goronok says. “By the end of my career, it’s<br />
likely that most of these instruments will be in<br />
museums or private collections. This doesn’t<br />
mean they won’t be played, thankfully, but<br />
you won’t be able to buy one. Until then, I<br />
want to keep on doing whatever I can to help<br />
those who have the means to help the world<br />
of classical music.” romangoronok.com<br />
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OUTDOOR LIFE<br />
CRAFTING<br />
EDEN<br />
From sprawling estates to bijou rooftops, our private slices of the<br />
great outdoors have become all the more important over the past<br />
year. Leading landscape designers share their views on the latest<br />
trends and essentials for our alfresco spaces // By Matthew Appleby<br />
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MINIMALIST STYLE<br />
Todd Haiman’s imaginative<br />
approach to New York’s<br />
brownstone backyards<br />
© TODD HAIMAN<br />
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OUTDOOR LIFE<br />
GARDEN DESIGN HAS BEEN one of the few winners<br />
of the past year. Whether done decoratively or<br />
figuratively, fanciful, xeriscaped, ornamental,<br />
abstract or Zen, as we spend more time at<br />
home and, when permissible, host friends and<br />
family, a beautiful garden with useful features<br />
is more relevant than ever – no matter its size.<br />
There are a few key trends that have either<br />
emerged or been amplified over recent months.<br />
London-based designer Andrew Fisher Tomlin,<br />
of Fisher Tomlin & Bowyer (andrewfishertomlin.<br />
com), says some clients are thinking outside<br />
the box, looking for what he calls “seamless<br />
design narratives”. He explains: “Outdoor<br />
kitchens are well accepted now, but rather<br />
than the off-the-shelf versions, we’re designing<br />
them from scratch featuring bespoke joinery<br />
elements that inspire planters and furniture so<br />
that everything is designed as one rather than<br />
an eclectic mix of suppliers. We’re especially<br />
using timbers like Accoya and black walnut.”<br />
Fisher Tomlin has an international practice,<br />
which allows him a global perspective on<br />
what the future of seamless design might<br />
be: “Whereas in the UK there are still a lot of<br />
hard surfaces and walls happening, we’ve<br />
moved towards a heavily planted naturalistic<br />
aesthetic look that you tend only to see in<br />
public settings in the US. Hopefully, we’re<br />
setting a trend away from lots of clipped topiary<br />
toward much more relaxed gardens that can be<br />
shared with wildlife as much as our families.”<br />
IN 2020 THERE WAS a significant move toward<br />
naturalistic plantings and towards a greater<br />
appreciation of the mental and physical health<br />
benefits of growing plants in general. “Planting<br />
design is generally moving toward a more<br />
considered approach – what I like to think of as<br />
slow planting design,” says Fisher Tomlin. “That<br />
means allowing trees and shrubs to achieve<br />
their natural shape and size without lots of<br />
maintenance. An enhanced awareness of climate<br />
change and the changing nature of homes –<br />
working from home, multitasking, family-shared<br />
spaces – plus a willingness to share our garden<br />
spaces more with wildlife and nature mean that,<br />
certainly for our design office, we’re planting-led with projects,<br />
and plants are high up the list of priorities of our clients.”<br />
A more radical vision of this naturalistic scheme comes by way<br />
of landscape architect Cleve West (clevewest.com), who says,<br />
“I hope rewilding gains more traction in <strong>2021</strong> as land-use for<br />
agriculture has to be addressed if we’re going to stand any chance<br />
of mitigating climate change. I also hope the veganic approach<br />
INTO THE WILD<br />
The Andrew Fisher Tomlin-designed<br />
garden at the Roehampton Club,<br />
southwest London<br />
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“Planting design is generally moving toward<br />
a more considered approach” Andrew Fisher Tomlin<br />
© ANDREW FISHER TOMLIN<br />
will be taken more seriously.” This means “a more sympathetic<br />
approach to gardening where wildlife can go about their business<br />
in relative safety – a shift to more considerate gardening”.<br />
However one approaches it, those with space are now<br />
populating their sprawling setups with much more than<br />
vegetation. Whether it’s the installation of integrated outdoor<br />
gyms; pitching and putting areas; wellness with saunas,<br />
hammams, banyas and plunge pools; or art, the<br />
sky’s the limit with options, foregoing hitherto<br />
standbys such as tennis courts and swimming<br />
pools. Indeed, London-based Opera Gallery<br />
(operagallery.com) has a matchmaking service<br />
that offers buyers a bespoke service to help<br />
them find the perfect sculpture for their gardens.<br />
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OUTDOOR LIFE<br />
MIXING IT UP<br />
Flowers and herbs emerge<br />
from stone structures in this<br />
Cleve West creation<br />
© CLEVE WEST<br />
For those with less commodious surroundings, New York designer<br />
Todd Haiman (toddhaimanlandscapedesign.com) conceptualises<br />
in the same conscious du jour way as his UK counterparts but<br />
in the much tighter confines of Manhattan skyscrapers and<br />
minuscule brownstone backyards. “People call because they don’t<br />
want formal gardens,” he says of his ethos. “I have a tendency<br />
to put more wild plants and indigenous plants in. You attract<br />
pollinators and birds by using plant material that has evolved over<br />
thousands of years. A roof garden has high winds and full sun so<br />
ornamental grasses do well, as they do on meadows and plains.”<br />
Haiman talks about breaking up outdoor spaces with highly<br />
sought-after outdoor kitchens and pergolas to offer shade.<br />
He recently hoisted steel up to a 25th-floor penthouse<br />
to build a pergola for a client. Shade is crucial for the<br />
summer and can also, he says, be useful for outdoor TVs.<br />
Increasingly over the past year, he says, “People want to extend<br />
the season. In March and April they want to be able to get out, and<br />
in November and December too.” Outdoor heaters are the answer,<br />
but he notes that they have been difficult to get hold of recently,<br />
as restaurants are buying them all up to allow for outdoor dining.<br />
AS FOR PLANTINGS, Haiman recommends little bluestem,<br />
switchgrass plant material that can deal with conditions akin<br />
to a beach or rocky cliff, where roots can’t dig in deep. Alpine<br />
A PRETTY PAIR<br />
American landscape designer Nick McCullough’s two big trends for <strong>2021</strong><br />
Outdoor gathering spaces have been a trend for a couple of years, but they have really gained momentum throughout the pandemic. This includes<br />
creature comforts such as heating and fire elements as well as bars and socially distanced dining. Design-wise, the “manicured wild” has certainly<br />
been a major trend. This is generally how I design, with a theory of organised chaos that integrates boundaries of hedging or hard surfaces and within<br />
those boundaries perennial plantings that seem to be woven together like a tapestry. Our plant palette [in the US] is so broad-sweeping due to our<br />
many zones – it is nice to see plants becoming the focus again in lieu of hardscapes. mccland.com<br />
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AHEAD OF THE GAME<br />
From left: one of Nick McCullough’s<br />
colourful designs; Seo Young-Deok’s<br />
Meditation 1554, 2019, an example<br />
of garden art from Opera Gallery<br />
© NICK McCULLOUGH<br />
GUY BELL<br />
plants make a lot of sense. He views garden planting, in contrast,<br />
as a forest understorey because buildings, fences and large<br />
street plane trees block a lot of light and create that habitat.<br />
He also offers remediation of potentially toxic soil so it is good<br />
to grow tomatoes and kale. Blueberry shrubs are also great on<br />
a roof, as everyone loves picking berries in summer and there<br />
are flowers in the spring as well as excellent leaf colour in the<br />
fall. Beach plums and alpine strawberries are other top tips.<br />
For furniture, he sees backs of seats getting lower, and<br />
a move from formal dining to casual with smaller tables<br />
and small-plate tapas rather than large meals. A space<br />
that can be used to read a book, drink a cocktail or have<br />
an outdoor bar area allows for flexibility that has become<br />
such a necessity for those spending more time at home.<br />
Haiman concludes, “There’s a lifestyle change going on here,<br />
and there’s an appreciation like never before.” The “quarantine<br />
of consumption” has led to a change in societal values, with<br />
people able to spend more time outdoors. His wife, a CFO,<br />
envisions fellow executives spending perhaps three days in<br />
the office and two days at home in the future, and so Haiman<br />
is currently planning spaces that can be used as outdoor offices<br />
and those that can serve as seductive backdrops for virtual<br />
meetings on the roof. It’s proof positive that human ingenuity<br />
knows no bounds – no matter what obstacles we’re facing.<br />
TIGHT SPACES<br />
A quintet of recommendations from Bowles & Wyer design director James Smith<br />
With so many people working from home, “we’re realising the huge benefit a beautiful garden can bring to our lives and well-being,” says Smith, whose<br />
firm is based just northwest of London. He’s picked out a handful of trend-forward ways to maximise limited spaces. First of all, remember that there<br />
is no place to hide, which is to say, note how the garden looks from all angles, including from above. Number two is less is more, taking the form,<br />
perhaps, of a unified colour scheme for furniture, paving and planting to bring the garden together and stop it looking fragmented. Thirdly, keep quality<br />
high by stretching the budget to include more durable features: they not only last longer but also look better. The fourth is to borrow landscapes and<br />
make sure that you don’t cut off your own views of the best of your surroundings. Finally, he recommends that you keep editing – change the design to<br />
incorporate the seasons and to keep the feeling of a fresh, dynamic space. bowleswyer.co.uk<br />
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LIVING WELL<br />
BEAUTY ON<br />
THE MOVE<br />
Master aesthetician Angela Caglia writes about her plant-based<br />
skin care range and offers an expert perspective on keeping<br />
your skin at its best during and after flights<br />
I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE power of plants and fruit growing up in<br />
central California as part of a large farming family that exported<br />
the highest quality apricots, plums, wine grapes and nectarines.<br />
While studying in Paris in my early twenties, I found my second<br />
passion in the beauty rituals, facials and skin care habits of the<br />
French. Inspired to study not only international business but<br />
also aesthetics on my return to the US, I became a facialist and<br />
trained with one of the leading French botanical skin care lines<br />
and French beauty experts, working on international celebrities.<br />
Eventually, I settled in Los Angeles and opened my own skin<br />
studio, building a loyal A-list celebrity following that includes<br />
Barbra Streisand, Minnie Driver, Helena Christensen and Sting.<br />
When launching my line of beauty products, I wanted to marry<br />
the principles of my farming background to my knowledge of<br />
ingredients and skin. My plant-based skin care line was begun in<br />
order to fill the gaps in the market: I helped create the innovative<br />
formulas using my insight – garnered from working on over 20,000<br />
faces – of how the skin reacts to ingredients in skin care products.<br />
Meadowfoam seed oil, which is grown only in Oregon and<br />
Washington, is the hero ingredient of my line because its bioidentical<br />
molecular structure is so similar to our own sebum.<br />
It is able to penetrate deeper into the skin along with the other<br />
proprietary ingredients of the formulas, giving an instant glow<br />
and dewiness to the skin while delivering potent actives.<br />
My philosophy is less is more. So many people are<br />
over-washing and over-exfoliating using harsh ingredients.<br />
My products soothe and nourish your lipid barrier instead<br />
of sensitising it with too many essential oils, harsh<br />
synthetic chemicals, or long routines. I source only the<br />
best US Department of Agriculture-certified organic and<br />
natural ingredients from farmers from all over the world.<br />
So how does this translate into the best way to look after<br />
your skin while travelling? The best way to prepare your skin<br />
for a long flight is extra hydration and moisture. I suggest using<br />
either my Soufflé Moisturizer or Daily Botanical Serum, which<br />
is a beautiful oil, reapplied every two hours in the air. Forgo<br />
makeup and focus on applying extra skin care during the flight<br />
to protect from the microclimate that being on an airplane can<br />
create. Artificial heat or air conditioning can cause dehydration<br />
and tightness of the skin. It also causes transepidermal<br />
water loss, making fine lines and wrinkles more pronounced.<br />
To combat dehydrated skin during the flight, try reapplying<br />
face oil during the flight to seal in moisture and hydration.<br />
Bring the proper skin care for the climate you are going to.<br />
For example, heading to a humid climate you will want lighter<br />
products and to focus more on serums. My Detox Serum<br />
is hydrating and balances the skin’s oil levels with sage,<br />
rosemary and hyaluronic acid. If traveling to a colder climate,<br />
on the other hand, take heavier face oils, hydrating masks and<br />
moisturisers with oils in them – like my Soufflé Moisturizer – to<br />
keep the skin dewy, bright and glowing on the ski slopes. When<br />
returning home, exfoliate the first evening with a gentle lactic<br />
acid peel or serum and then go back to your normal ritual.<br />
For avoiding jet lag and puffiness I recommend using my Rose<br />
Quartz Goddess Face Mask over my Facial in a Mask bio-cellulose<br />
sheet mask when arriving at your room. The cold rose quartz crystals<br />
make it soothing and help to revive tired skin, further infuse the sheet<br />
mask serum and combat puffiness and dark circles. It only takes<br />
ten minutes, and you can recline in bed with the masks on. It’s like<br />
getting my signature Rose Quartz Facial. The sheet mask is filled<br />
with hyaluronic acid, peptides, vitamin C, 24 karat gold flakes and<br />
lactic acid. It’s very popular with my jet-set clients. angelacaglia.com<br />
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FRIEND OF THE EARTH<br />
Angela Caglia’s success<br />
stems from embracing the<br />
bounty of nature<br />
JOE KIM<br />
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TEEING OFF<br />
LONG-<br />
AWAITED<br />
LAYOUTS<br />
STEVE UZZELL<br />
COASTAL BEAUTY<br />
The 12th hole at the<br />
Apes Hill Club, Barbados<br />
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These standout courses – each with a<br />
special twist – are the crème de la crème<br />
of this year’s openings // By Larry Olmsted<br />
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EVAN SCHILLER<br />
TEEING OFF<br />
THE GOLDEN AGE OF GOLF DESIGN spanned three decades in the early<br />
20th century and now a lost relic from the era is returning – this time<br />
in Thailand. That’s just the tip of the iceberg for an unusual year in<br />
golf, one that will also see the Golden Bear, Jack Nicklaus, waive his<br />
$3 million Signature design fee to build a course for charity, a private<br />
Donald Ross standout go public for its 100th birthday, and a slew of<br />
famous names tackle the suddenly popular short-course concept.<br />
When the Lido opened on Long Island in 1917, it immediately<br />
joined the ranks of the world’s best courses and was compared<br />
favourably to Pine Valley, the US’s top-rated layout. But the<br />
club was shuttered during World War II and never reopened.<br />
Now, 80 years later, it is returning in spirit, thanks to Gil Hanse<br />
(the winner of the competition to design the course for the Rio<br />
Olympic Games), who is creating a hole-by-hole homage to<br />
Charles Blair MacDonald and Seth Raynor’s Lido design. Debuting<br />
in August <strong>2021</strong> as the centrepiece of the Ban Rakat Club, just<br />
35 minutes from downtown Bangkok, Ballyshear Links (brc.<br />
co.th) is named after MacDonald’s Long Island estate and<br />
is expected to be the biggest thing ever to hit golf in Thailand.<br />
Bangkok is a long way from New Jersey, but Hanse has also<br />
managed to simultaneously complete an extensive restoration<br />
of Baltusrol Golf Club’s Lower Course (baltusrol.org), a highly<br />
FLYING HIGH<br />
The Lower Course<br />
renovation at Baltusrol<br />
Golf Club, New Jersey<br />
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ALL AN HENRY<br />
ranked AW Tillinghast design that will host the KPMG Women’s<br />
PGA Championship in 2023 and the PGA Championship, for the<br />
third time, in 2029. The restored Lower Course reopens in May.<br />
Two other American courses present one-of-a-kind tales: the<br />
first starts with Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rooney, a US Air Force<br />
fighter pilot who founded nonprofit organisation Folds of Honor<br />
to provide educational scholarships to spouses and children of<br />
America’s deceased or disabled service members. Rooney came<br />
up with the idea of creating a golf facility to benefit the foundation,<br />
and personally flew to West Palm Beach to solicit his childhood<br />
sports hero, Jack Nicklaus. The Golden Bear waived his fee and<br />
personally handled American Dunes (americandunesgolfclub.<br />
com), a 7,2<strong>13</strong>-yard dunescape inland links course that opens<br />
this spring in Grand Haven, Michigan, a Great Lakes beach resort<br />
town. The public course will have on-site accommodations in a<br />
16-room lodge. Nicklaus Design is also set to open a new private<br />
club in Scottsdale, Arizona, Sterling Grove Golf & Country Club<br />
(sterlinggroveclub.com), which will be managed by Troon Golf.<br />
AMERICAN DUNES IS THE highest-profile new 18 in the United<br />
States, but the biggest reopening is the Southern Pines Golf<br />
Club (southernpinesgolfclub.com) just outside Pinehurst, North<br />
PEAK PROGRESS<br />
Nicklaus Design’s Sterling<br />
Grove Golf & Country Club,<br />
Scottsdale, Arizona<br />
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PLAYED AND PERFECTED<br />
Well-considered carry, stand and<br />
buggy bags for your next outing<br />
1<br />
Carolina. Known as the “cradle of golf” in America,<br />
Pinehurst is to the US what St Andrews is to Scotland,<br />
and is especially known for famed resident and golf<br />
architect Donald Ross, who did many area courses,<br />
including Pinehurst No 2, Pine Needles and Mid Pines,<br />
all of which have hosted PGA Major tournaments. But for<br />
the last century, the hidden gem has been Ross’s private<br />
Southern Pines GC, which was recently purchased by the<br />
sibling adjacent Pine Needles and Mid Pines resorts. The<br />
owner brought in Kyle Franz, who did historically accurate<br />
restorations of both vaunted Ross designs, to tackle the<br />
“new” third layout at the resort. One hundred years after it<br />
originally opened, Southern Pines will be back and public,<br />
making this the only resort in the world with 54 original<br />
premier Ross holes. The first wave of work will be done<br />
for play in the peak spring season, followed by a summer<br />
green replacement and second reopening in autumn.<br />
COURTESY THE COMPANIES<br />
2<br />
3<br />
1 JONES SPORTS CO<br />
As traditional as carry bags come, this new herringbone iteration of the Utility Rover weighs<br />
in at around 1.5kg, with two-way divider, a single and secondary strap and, unlike Sunday<br />
models of yore, has a half-dozen pockets to ensure your mid-round beverage is ice-cold in<br />
the insulated quick-draw pocket, and features like the Velcro patch, so your glove remains<br />
easily accessible and talcum-dry. jonessportsco.com<br />
2 VESSEL BAGS<br />
The choice of PGA Pros such as Paul Casey, this newcomer is upping the ante with a refined<br />
lineup for the amateur golfer. Case in point, the 2kg VLX stand bag, which is fashioned from<br />
Tour-grade synthetic leather and features four-way, full-length dividers with nary an exposed<br />
seam nor rivet in sight. Moreover, the bag is customisable, and the company donates a<br />
backpack to a child in need for each bag sold. vesselbags.com<br />
3 MNML GOLF<br />
No round of golf would be complete without an on-the-range or on-course videography<br />
session for social media. Enter this newbie brand, whose patent-pending Filming Pocket is<br />
all the rage with the influencer set. A tech kit update adds a custom-made Bluetooth speaker<br />
which, together with features such as magnetic pocket closures and a sizable thermal pocket,<br />
bring this customisable carry bag to five pounds. minimalgolf.com<br />
4 SUN MOUNTAIN BOOM BAG<br />
If an on-course soundtrack is how you wish to complement your round of golf, then the<br />
new Boom cart bag from the Missoula, Montana-based purveyor has to be your go-to<br />
choice. The unrivalled maker of waterproof specimens has added a built-in Bluetooth<br />
speaker to its feted 14-way bags, with top-to-bottom dividers that protect grips and shafts.<br />
sunmountain.com<br />
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ANOTHER MAJOR RENOVATION is Apes Hill Club (apeshillclub.<br />
com), a private Barbados residential community long<br />
popular with Londoners. The extensive redesign by Ron<br />
Kirby of Ireland’s Old Head fame will add a 19th bonus<br />
hole modelled after the famous 17th island hole at TPC<br />
Sawgrass, as well as an entirely new nine-hole par 3<br />
course. The uniquely elevated site in St James overlooks<br />
both the east and west coasts and features deep tropical<br />
jungle gullies, exposed coral rock formations, 200-yearold,<br />
30m-high bearded fig trees – and no actual apes<br />
but lots of green monkeys. It should be finished toward<br />
the very end of <strong>2021</strong>, around the same time another<br />
Caribbean biggie is expected to debut preview rounds.<br />
The development team behind Canada’s acclaimed Cabot<br />
resort is taking its skills to the islands to create a new<br />
resort, Cabot St Lucia (cabotsaintlucia.com). While<br />
residential and hospitality facilities will not open until<br />
2022, the course will come first, designed by the hottest<br />
architects in golf today, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw.<br />
In comparison, Kyle Phillips, famous for Scotland’s<br />
Kingsbarns, has been quiet recently, but will be<br />
back in the golf news when his newest design, PGA<br />
National Czech Republic Course (oakspga.cz), opens<br />
this spring. A classic parkland layout on a historic<br />
estate in the suburbs of Prague, the project includes<br />
a boutique hotel, spa and clubhouse in a restored<br />
19th-century château, all managed by Troon Golf.<br />
SUVARNABHUMI AIRPORT TO BALLYSHEAR LINKS: 19miles/31km;<br />
NEWARK AIRPORT TO BALTUSROL GOLF CLUB: <strong>13</strong>miles/21km; GERALD<br />
R FORD AIRPORT TO AMERICAN DUNES: 49 miles/79km; PHOENIX<br />
SKY HARBOR AIRPORT TO STERLING GROVE GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB:<br />
35miles/56km; MOORES COUNTY AIRPORT TO SOUTHERN PINES<br />
GOLF CLUB: 7 miles/11km; BARBADOS AIRPORT TO APES HILL CLUB:<br />
12miles/19km; GEORGE FL CHARLES AIRPORT TO CABOT ST LUCIA:<br />
11miles/18km; PRAGUE AIRPORT TO PGA NATIONAL CZECH REPUBLIC<br />
COURSE: 21miles/34km<br />
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WHY SHORT IS BIG IN <strong>2021</strong><br />
No longer the preserve of beginner golfers, more and more iconic<br />
venues (think Pinehurst, Bandon Dunes and Scottsdale National) have<br />
all added short courses. Herewith a quartet of other recent debuts by<br />
marquee resorts that are now joining the list<br />
PEBBLE BEACH<br />
America’s most famous golf resort will have its four 18-hole<br />
layouts joined early in <strong>2021</strong> by a new par 3 course designed<br />
by none other than Tiger Woods. Despite being new to the golf<br />
design game, Woods is a big fan of the short-course concept and<br />
this will be his fourth to date, but the only one on the Monterey<br />
Peninsula, with sweeping Pacific Ocean views throughout.<br />
pebblebeach.com<br />
MONTEREY PENINSULA AIRPORT: 8miles/<strong>13</strong>km<br />
DESTINATION KOHLER<br />
With four 18s that have hosted majors, this is a Wisconsin<br />
powerhouse, which debuts the 10-hole Baths of Blackwolf Run.<br />
With alternative routings for 3-, 6-, 10- or 12-hole loops and three<br />
sets of tees letting golfers play holes as short as 60 and as long<br />
as 220 yards, it is all about pleasing everyone. There are four<br />
dramatic water hazards – the “Baths” – with an option to play<br />
around all of them. americanclubresort.com<br />
GENERAL MITCHELL AIRPORT: 64miles/103km<br />
STEVE RANKIN<br />
GAMBLE SANDS<br />
David Kidd, the Scottish designer behind Bandon Dunes, is<br />
making his debut as a short-course artist with this 14-hole<br />
stunner called Quicksands next to his Sands Course, already rated<br />
the best public layout in Washington state. He’s already created<br />
a natural grass putting course on-site, and the new par-3 layout,<br />
Kidd says “is a golfing playground created in a bowl next to the<br />
clubhouse that’s meant for pure fun. The holes are as wild as we<br />
could dream up. It’s all about the ground game at Gamble Sands,<br />
and the unexpected is to be expected.” gamblesands.com<br />
BREWSTER AIRPORT: 7miles/11km<br />
THE NEST<br />
The “Bandon Dunes of Canada,” Cabot Links was the country’s<br />
first true links course, fittingly designed by Canadian architect<br />
Rod Whitman. Then Coore & Crenshaw added a second eighteen,<br />
Cabot Cliffs, and now Whitman is back with partner Dave Axland<br />
to present The Nest, a 10-hole par-3 course perched on the<br />
highest coastal site within Nova Scotia’s Cabot resort. With raw,<br />
rugged bunkers, undulating greens, running approaches, and<br />
wind and ocean views everywhere you turn, it is Cabot’s third<br />
taste of old-school links golf—only smaller. cabotlinks.com<br />
MARGAREE AIRPORT: 24miles/39km<br />
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PERFECT ISOLATION<br />
The Lightkeeper’s Lodge next<br />
to Pater Noster lighthouse<br />
on Sweden’s windswept<br />
Hamneskär island.<br />
ERIK NISSEN JOHANSEN<br />
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SUITE DREAMS<br />
With so many hotels delaying openings over the past<br />
12 months and others using the time for renovations,<br />
the year ahead promises to be packed with standout<br />
opportunities for travel of all kinds // By Lauren Ho<br />
THE FUTURE OF THE travel industry is certainly<br />
a hot topic at the moment. From talk about<br />
increased safety and hygiene to forecasts for a<br />
surge in villa rentals or, better yet, entire private<br />
island takeovers, post-COVID predictions are<br />
coming in thick and fast. And while the travel<br />
industry – and much of the world – was on<br />
pause for most of 2020, the upside is that <strong>2021</strong><br />
is bursting with fresh optimism and a renewed<br />
appreciation for the simple things in life. From<br />
travelling with a sense of purpose and fulfillment<br />
to ticking off that bucket list, this year is all about<br />
embracing and savouring safe, slower, soulful,<br />
secluded and sustainable travel experiences.<br />
SLOW BUT SURE<br />
Frantically vanquishing must-see tourist hot spots<br />
is a thing of the past as we look to make a deeper<br />
connection with our destination. Whether it’s<br />
opting to linger longer to truly get to the heart of<br />
a culture, or spending more time on the ground<br />
exploring by foot, bicycle or train, these days we<br />
are all about leisurely paced cultural immersion<br />
and finding joy in unscripted moments. One<br />
such place to reconnect with nature amid 30<br />
hectares of rolling hills and lush meadows is<br />
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ALEPH ALIGHIERI<br />
Hutton Brickyards (salthotels.com), the last<br />
architecturally intact brick factory in Kingston,<br />
upstate New York, which has been transformed<br />
into an innovative retreat focused on upskilling<br />
with activities such as beekeeping and writing<br />
workshops on offer. In Vietnam, vintage railway<br />
travel has made a comeback with the recent<br />
launch of The Vietage (thevietagetrain.com),<br />
a luxe 12-guest carriage that chugs south from<br />
Hoi An along Central Vietnam’s eastern coastline<br />
to Quy Nhon in an unhurried six-hour journey<br />
during which a three-course menu is served<br />
against rolling views of forest-swathed mountains<br />
and sparkling shores. There is also the option to<br />
take it slow in Sicily and experience the island’s<br />
diverse landscape and unique cuisine by train<br />
before ending your journey on a high at Villa<br />
Igiea (roccofortehotels.com), a magnificently<br />
restored 19th-century palazzo in Palermo.<br />
EXTRAORDINARY MOMENTS<br />
Now is the time, if ever, to make up for lost travel<br />
and turn those once-in-a-lifetime destinations into<br />
a reality. Whether it’s skiing under the Northern<br />
Lights in Finnish Lapland or riding with cowboys<br />
in Colombia, it’s all about living for today and<br />
experiencing those rare, jaw-dropping moments.<br />
With a bag full of epic journeys, Cookson<br />
Adventures (cooksonadventures.com, see<br />
interview on page 59) is ahead of the game, with<br />
extraordinary expeditions such as swimming<br />
with orcas in Arctic Norway, navigating those<br />
rare destinations around the globe in a private<br />
superyacht or, in a world first, sub diving in the<br />
Pacific in a seven-seat submersible. In South<br />
Africa’s Kruger Park, bask in an epic African<br />
sunset from a cantilevered pool at Kruger<br />
Shalati (krugershalati.com), an indulgent hotel<br />
in a restored vintage train overlooking the park’s<br />
Sabie River. Or, immerse yourself in Utah’s<br />
otherworldly landscape of towering mesas, slot<br />
canyons and rust-coloured sands from Camp<br />
Sarika (aman.com), Amangiri’s ten-tent camp,<br />
set within 243 hectares of sun-drenched desert.<br />
PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION<br />
From rehoming tortoises in the Galápagos Islands<br />
to reaching the summit of an unconquered<br />
mountain, this year is all about our renewed<br />
resolve to travel with purpose. Whether<br />
it’s consciously supporting conservation,<br />
communities and sustainability, or even learning<br />
a new skill, we are looking for elevated travel<br />
experiences that will set us on the path to<br />
personal fulfillment. Cookson Adventures is once<br />
again leading the way with a host of extraordinary<br />
expeditions, including hands-on conservation<br />
efforts such as tagging sharks, completing<br />
shark surveys, and researching manta rays<br />
in a scientist-guided experience in Mexico’s<br />
Revillagigedo Archipelago; or trailing previously<br />
undocumented elephant herds and the very<br />
last of a species of giant antelope with leading<br />
conservationists, veterinarians and biologists in a<br />
world-first conservation expedition in Angola. Also<br />
in Africa, Xigera (xigera.com), a 12-suite art-filled<br />
camp in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, offers a<br />
first-class safari experience against a background<br />
of sustainability, conservation and support for<br />
the local community, while on the Pacific coast<br />
of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, Paradero<br />
Todos Santos (paraderohotels.com), a 35-room<br />
HOT AND COLD<br />
The arid landscape of Paradero Todos<br />
Santos, Mexico, above; Norwegian<br />
fjørds explored on a Cookson Adventures<br />
journey, facing page<br />
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Now is the time, if ever, to make up for<br />
lost travel and turn those once-in-a-lifetime<br />
destinations into a reality<br />
FROM TOP: SIM DAVIS, IGOR DEMBA<br />
THE MAGIC OF MARRAKECH: MOROCCO’S MOST VIBRANT JEWEL SHINES<br />
An intoxicating city best known for its heady souks, abundant fragrances and winding medina, but also for its hip<br />
hotels and trendy art galleries, Marrakech is bursting with life, cementing its spot as a must-visit destination this<br />
year. Cult boutique hotel favourite El Fenn (el-fenn.com, left) has unveiled a splendid new expansion so that the<br />
property now extends over 12 riads to include a new rooftop pool and a ground-floor bar and restaurant, while the<br />
landmark La Mamounia (mamounia.com) hotel has teamed up with legendary chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten<br />
to launch two new culinary destinations: an Italian trattoria and an elegant Southeast Asian-inflected restaurant.<br />
Elsewhere, organic eatery Les Jardins du Lotus (+212 6614 52429) embraces a slow menu of solid dishes – such<br />
as the poached lobster salad served with zingy citrus fruits – from its home inside a 19th-century residence in the<br />
heart of the medina; while nearby, the rooftop restaurant Kabana (kabana-marrakech.com) serves up artisanal<br />
Moroccan cocktails and an international menu, including excellent sushi, against magnificent views of the Koutoubia<br />
mosque. Joining the rest of the city’s upscale dining spots and chic bars in the Gueliz neighborhood, Italian<br />
restaurant Vita Nova (vita-nova.ma) has become a firm favourite for its fresh ingredients, including burrata and<br />
delicious salamis. Coming soon, the Nobu Hotel brand (nobuhotels.com) will make its debut in the city’s Hivernage<br />
district, a short stride from the historic heart of the city, with 71 rooms, a series of drinking and dining venues –<br />
including a rooftop space – and a 2,000sq m spa with indoor and outdoor swimming pools.<br />
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Marrakech Airport to city centre: 3miles/5km<br />
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Even before the arrival of the pandemic,<br />
off-the-beaten-track destinations were on the<br />
rise, as many of us looked to feed our souls<br />
hotel, slots right into its surrounding landscape<br />
with 60 endemic plant species and a sprawling<br />
9,200sq m botanical garden. In Romania, it’s a<br />
different sort of nature in focus: Transylvania’s<br />
wild, mist-cloaked valleys and gothic castles at<br />
Bethlen Estates (bethlenestates.com). Here,<br />
the Bethlen family have been quietly acquiring<br />
tumbledown buildings in their ancestral village of<br />
Cris and transforming them into design-led havens,<br />
which can be rented out, while simultaneously<br />
supporting local communities through employment<br />
and education. Last but not least, in the Maldives,<br />
Soneva Fushi (soneva.com) continues to fly the<br />
sustainability flag with its numerous initiatives,<br />
including Soneva Namoona, a partnership with the<br />
resort’s three neighbouring islands that provides<br />
a blueprint for phasing out single-use plastics.<br />
FAR-FLUNG SOLACE<br />
Remote, socially distanced travel might be a<br />
necessity these days, but even before the arrival<br />
of the pandemic, off-the-beaten-track destinations<br />
were on the rise, as many of us looked to feed<br />
our souls by truly getting away and switching off.<br />
Marooned off the coast of Mozambique among<br />
an archipelago of islands that rivals the Maldives,<br />
Kisawa Sanctuary (kisawasanctuary.com) is a<br />
12-room retreat surrounded by nothing other than<br />
300 hectares of forest, beach and sand dunes.<br />
On the remote, windblown and barren archipelago<br />
of Pater Noster off the coast of Sweden, hunker<br />
down in the Lightkeeper’s Lodge (paternoster.<br />
se), the former lighthouse master’s home, which<br />
has been transformed into a cosy eight-room<br />
retreat. In the once-desolate northwestern deserts<br />
of Saudi Arabia, eco-conscious brand Habitas<br />
will open Habitas AlUla (ourhabitas.com), a<br />
modular designed sustainable resort with 100<br />
stand-alone capsules made from laminated wood,<br />
aluminium and other planet-friendly materials.<br />
REVISIT THE FAMILIAR<br />
Sometimes, the key to relaxation is in the comfort<br />
of knowing exactly what to expect – more so<br />
in <strong>2021</strong>, as we also look to head back to the<br />
destinations we have missed over the past year.<br />
In Geneva, the German hospitality group Oetker<br />
OASIS IN THE DESERT<br />
One of the 100 stand-alone<br />
capsules of Habitas AlUla<br />
in Saudi Arabia<br />
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THREE MINUTES WITH<br />
HENRY COOKSON<br />
Since 2009, Cookson Adventures, a NetJets partner,<br />
has specialised in tailor-made trips to remote<br />
locations. Its founder talks about intrepid travel<br />
trends for the year ahead.<br />
What are some of the requests you’re already<br />
receiving for travel in <strong>2021</strong> – and are any<br />
common threads emerging?<br />
We have, fortunately, been very well placed for the<br />
recent shift towards secluded travel. Explorers are<br />
looking for private lodges, private islands and trips<br />
in totally remote destinations, away from the crowds<br />
– all of which has always been Cookson Adventures’<br />
bread and butter. It means we haven’t had to<br />
sacrifice adventure for safety over the past year,<br />
thankfully. It’s also been a year of “door-to-door”<br />
escapes, using private jets for families to travel<br />
flexibly and stay clear of crowded airport queues.<br />
Iceland, for example, has been perfect for this. It’s a<br />
short flight from most of Western Europe and is ideal<br />
for exploring without seeing a soul in sight. We’ve had<br />
clients enjoy heli-safaris, ATV races on black sand<br />
beaches, snorkelling with humpback whales, and<br />
caving. No two days needed to ever be the same.<br />
What are clients moving towards in terms of<br />
destinations and experiences?<br />
There’s now a wider shift towards more meaningful<br />
travel. Out with the weekend getaways and in with<br />
family-focused itineraries for longer periods of<br />
time, particularly when activities with educational<br />
elements for the children are woven into the<br />
schedule. It could be learning how to read a map or<br />
build a shelter with a survival expert, or bespoke<br />
treasure hunts that test their problem-solving<br />
abilities as they island hop in the Maldives. It helps<br />
to make their time away count.<br />
Entry and exit protocols and restrictions<br />
notwithstanding, what are some of the locales<br />
that you’re really excited about for <strong>2021</strong>?<br />
This has been the first season in a long time when<br />
I haven’t returned to Antarctica. I am blown away<br />
every time I arrive at its shores – glassy white<br />
icebergs that tower over the largest of yachts, pods<br />
of humpback whales feeding on the summer’s algae,<br />
and an unimaginable number of penguins darting<br />
into the waters on foraging missions. It’s pure bliss.<br />
There’s a lot of planning required to deliver trips<br />
of this magnitude, so we’re planning itineraries<br />
now for the 21/22 season. I’m also just back from<br />
Costa Rica. We like to call it nature’s playground<br />
because the biodiversity and adventure on offer are<br />
at insane levels. We’ve seen lots of client interest<br />
for conservation-centric adventures there this<br />
year, both for on board a yacht or while staying at<br />
an eco-camp – one of which is a shark-tagging<br />
experience alongside marine biologists. They will<br />
help tag hammerhead sharks to gather crucial<br />
information about their behavior. There’s even an<br />
option to “adopt” a shark and name one to receive<br />
reports of its travels and growth over its lifetime.<br />
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Collection is set to launch The Woodward<br />
(oetkercollection.com), a suite-only property<br />
occupying a post-Haussmann-style building,<br />
which has been overhauled by architect Pierre<br />
Yves-Rochon and features panoramic views<br />
of Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc. Greece<br />
favourite Mykonos will welcome Kalesma<br />
(kalesmamykonos.com), a 25-suite and twovilla<br />
property set on a hilltop above Ornos Bay,<br />
while the Six Senses group (sixsenses.com) will<br />
continue its expansion with an opening in Ibiza,<br />
set within two hectares on the island’s crystalline<br />
Cala Xarraca Bay. In the Atlantic, Rosewood Le<br />
Guanahani St Barth (rosewoodhotels.com) will<br />
reopen after a makeover to include renovated<br />
guest rooms – many with new private pools – and<br />
a series of updated facilities, including a distinct<br />
beachfront dining concept, while The Chatwal<br />
Lodge (thechatwallodge.com), a sister property to<br />
the Manhattan original, will open its doors in the<br />
Catskills, in upstate New York. Set on 24 hectares<br />
along the shores of the Toronto Reservoir, the<br />
hand-hewn, all-suite timber retreat will offer farmto-table<br />
dining and Ayurvedic-focused wellness.<br />
URBAN REVIVAL<br />
With many of the world’s biggest cities slowly<br />
waking up after a year on pause, their familiar<br />
landscapes will undoubtedly be reshaped by<br />
last year’s events. From reenergised creative<br />
scenes to the emergence of blossoming new<br />
neighbourhoods, along with the much-anticipated<br />
openings of an abundance of hotels, now is the<br />
time to reexplore old favourites as they begin to<br />
regenerate and reopen. In New York, both the Six<br />
Senses and Aman brands are set to take wellness<br />
to a new level, with the latter – which will occupy<br />
the landmark Crown Building – featuring a<br />
sprawling 2,300sq m spa set over three floors<br />
with a dramatic 20m indoor swimming pool.<br />
The Six Senses offering, meanwhile, will be<br />
located between Manhattan’s Hudson River<br />
and The High Line and will feature interiors<br />
by Paris-based outfit Gilles & Boissier. Further<br />
down south in São Paulo, Rosewood makes<br />
its South American debut in a former hospital,<br />
with architecture by Pritzker prize-winner Jean<br />
Nouvel and interiors by Philippe Starck, while over<br />
in Europe, NoMad London (thenomadhotel.com)<br />
– the brand’s first opening outside the US – will<br />
launch inside the historic grade II-listed former Bow<br />
Street Magistrates’ Court and Police Station. Visitors<br />
to Paris will have a couple more options soon with<br />
both the Bulgari (bulgarihotels.com) and Cheval<br />
Blanc (chevalblanc.com) opening their doors: the<br />
former boasts a 25m pool and a Bulgari restaurant,<br />
and the latter occupies the beguiling former La<br />
Samaritaine department store. Meanwhile, the US’s<br />
hip Ace Hotel (acehotel.com) brand continues its<br />
global expansion with the opening of a Sydney<br />
outpost in the city’s Surry Hills neighbourhood.<br />
NEXT-LEVEL WELLNESS<br />
Wellness is big business. And while the industry<br />
has already been booming for a number of years,<br />
never before has health and well-being been so<br />
important. The hospitality industry has made a<br />
similar investment, as hotels increasingly shift<br />
toward wellness-focused offerings, from the<br />
integration of smart technology such as air purifiers<br />
or shower heads infused with vitamin C to gyms<br />
and spas taking centre stage, such as fitness brand<br />
Equinox (equinox-hotels.com) opening its first hotel<br />
in 2019 in New York’s Hudson Yards. This upswing<br />
is further illustrated with The Aurum (theaurum.<br />
com), a soon-to-open retreat in the Catskills in<br />
upstate New York, which will feature a 550sq m<br />
spa with a concept that puts a modern spin on<br />
ancient Roman bathing. In India, Goa will welcome<br />
King’s Mansion (kingsmansiongoa.com), its first<br />
integrated wellness destination, while Bangkok<br />
also steps things up with the launch of RAKxa<br />
(rakxawellness.com), a wellness and medical retreat<br />
on its own island across from the city on the banks<br />
of the Chao Phraya River. In Europe, Montenegro’s<br />
new One & Only Portonovi (oneandonlyresorts.<br />
com) has teamed up with pioneering wellness<br />
brand Chenot Espace, whose next-level offerings<br />
include detox programs, body checkups, diet<br />
and nutrition consultations, and medical spa<br />
treatments. And up near the Arctic Circle, Sweden’s<br />
Arctic Bath hotel (arcticbath.se) centres on its<br />
spa, which focuses on cold therapy and features<br />
saunas that circle a bath filled with pure river water.<br />
© ROSEWOOD<br />
BEACH RETREAT<br />
The renovated Rosewood<br />
Le Guanahani St Barth will<br />
open again in the spring<br />
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KINGSTON-ULSTER AIRPORT TO HUTTON BRICKYARDS: 6miles/10km; DA NANG AIRPORT TO THE VIETAGE (HOI AN): 18miles/29km; PALERMO AIRPORT TO VILLA IGIEA: 19miles/31km; SKUKUZA<br />
AIRPORT TO KRUGER SHALATI: 2miles/3km; PAGE AIRPORT TO CAMP SARIKA BY AMANGIRI: 17miles/27km; MAUN AIRPORT TO XIGERA: 75miles/121km; SAN JOSÉ DEL CABO AIRPORT TO<br />
PARADERO TODOS SANTOS: 68miles/109km; TÂRGU MUREŞ AIRPORT TO BETHLEN ESTATES: 40miles/64km; DHARAVANDHOO AIRPORT TO SONEVA FUSHI: 5miles/8km (via seaplane);<br />
VILANKULO AIRPORT TO KISAWA SANCTUARY: 10miles/16km (via helicopter); GOTHENBURG AIRPORT TO PATER NOSTER: 25miles/40km; PRINCE ABDUL MAJEED BIN ABDULAZIZ AIRPORT<br />
TO HABITAS ALULA: 19miles/31km; GENEVA AIRPORT TO THE WOODWARD: 3miles/5km; MYKONOS AIRPORT TO KALESMA: 3miles/5km; IBIZA AIRPORT TO SIX SENSES IBIZA: 20miles/32km;<br />
GUSTAF III AIRPORT TO ROSEWOOD LE GUANAHANI ST BARTH: 4miles/6km; SULLIVAN COUNTY AIRPORT TO THE CHATWAL LODGE: 6miles/10km; LAGUARDIA AIRPORT TO SIX SENSES<br />
NEW YORK: 10miles/16km; LAGUARDIA AIRPORT TO AMAN NEW YORK: 10miles/16km; LONDON CITY AIRPORT TO NOMAD LONDON: 9miles/14km; LE BOURGET TO BULGARI HOTEL PARIS:<br />
<strong>13</strong>miles/21km; LE BOURGET TO CHEVAL BLANC PARIS: 14miles/23km; SYDNEY AIRPORT TO ACE HOTEL SYDNEY: 4miles/6km; LAGUARDIA AIRPORT TO EQUINOX: 10miles/16km; STEWART<br />
AIRPORT TO THE AURUM: 55miles/89km; DABOLIM AIRPORT TO KING’S MANSION: 29miles/47km; DON MUEANG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO RAKXA: 25miles/40km; TIVAT AIRPORT TO<br />
ONE&ONLY PORTONOVI: 11miles/18km; LULEÅ AIRPORT TO ARCTIC BATH: 53miles/85km<br />
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OPEN AND CLOSED<br />
ON THE<br />
CASE<br />
A curated selection of the latest luggage and travel accessories<br />
// Photography by Matthew Shave Production by Elisa Vallata<br />
Clockwise, from left:<br />
LOUIS VUITTON Soft Trunk<br />
Briefcase, crafted from<br />
black-and-grey Monogram<br />
Eclipse canvas, featuring<br />
leather top handles and a<br />
removable shoulder strap<br />
TOM FORD alligator<br />
leather iPhone cover and<br />
cardholder on a neck<br />
strap with gold hardware<br />
LEICA M10-R compact<br />
digital view and<br />
rangefinder system<br />
camera with black<br />
chrome finish and<br />
ultraquiet shutter<br />
BANG & OLUFSEN Beoplay<br />
H95 Adaptive ANC<br />
headphones in gold tone<br />
GLOBE-TROTTER fourwheel<br />
carry-on trolley<br />
case in ocean green and<br />
black from the No Time to<br />
Die collection<br />
decorated with Vintage<br />
007 leather stickers.<br />
CONNOLLY tan leather<br />
wash bag with contrast<br />
stitching details<br />
AESOP Arrival Travel Kit<br />
featuring Classic<br />
Shampoo, Classic<br />
Conditioner, Geranium<br />
Leaf Body Cleanser<br />
and Rind Concentrate<br />
Body Balm<br />
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From left:<br />
TUMI Tegra-Lite 2 Short<br />
Trip Expandable 4<br />
Wheeled Packing Case,<br />
made in Tegris composite,<br />
with an expandable main<br />
compartment and a<br />
removable garment sleeve<br />
AVIT<strong>EU</strong>R Carry-On, handcrafted<br />
from calf-skin<br />
leather, with aviationgrade<br />
aluminium wheel<br />
casters, silent wheels,<br />
transparent and<br />
buttonless Lucite handle,<br />
Alcantara interior, and<br />
two compartments.<br />
FPM MILANO leathertrimmed<br />
aluminium vanity<br />
case, featuring dual<br />
TSA-certified combination<br />
fastenings and a butterfly<br />
lock, plus a fully lined<br />
interior with a divider and<br />
zipped pockets, available<br />
on mrporter.com<br />
RIMOWA Classic Check-In<br />
L in matte black, crafted<br />
in an aluminium alloy<br />
and featuring handmade<br />
leather handles<br />
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Clockwise, from left:<br />
SMYTHSON Ludlow Large<br />
Briefcase in grain calf<br />
leather with zip front<br />
SERAPIAN nappa leather<br />
travel bag in black and<br />
off-white Mosaico. Part<br />
of the “Signed by our<br />
Artisans” collection<br />
BILL AMBERG STUDIO<br />
handcrafted weekender<br />
in brown leather with<br />
polished aluminium<br />
handles and refined<br />
personalisation options<br />
DUNHILL Lock Bag in AD<br />
silver-finish leather<br />
with a lock mechanism in<br />
AD brass and detachable<br />
shoulder strap<br />
BILL AMBERG STUDIO<br />
handcrafted Rocket Bag<br />
briefcase in tan leather<br />
with fine goat suede<br />
or calfskin lining and<br />
customisable details and<br />
pocket configurations<br />
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From the top,<br />
anti-clockwise:<br />
RALPH LAUREN Alligator<br />
Mini Portfolio with a<br />
buckled strap closure<br />
BENNETT WINCH Watch<br />
Roll in Tuscan leather<br />
with Kevlar lining<br />
CHOPARD L.U.C<br />
GMT One (left) with a<br />
42mm rose gold case<br />
and brown sunburst<br />
satin-brushed dial<br />
AUDEMARS PIGUET<br />
Code 11.59 Selfwinding<br />
(right) with a 41mm<br />
white and pink gold<br />
case and grey<br />
lacquered dial<br />
ASPINAL Slim Credit<br />
Card Holder in Deep<br />
Shine British Racing<br />
Green Small Croc<br />
TIFFANY & CO. yellow<br />
gold and sterling silver<br />
Square Signet cuff links<br />
CARTIER Première de<br />
Cartier sunglasses<br />
in tortoiseshell<br />
composite with green<br />
polarised lenses<br />
TIFFANY & CO. sterling<br />
silver compass from<br />
the Tiffany 1837<br />
Makers collection<br />
MONTBLANC M Gram<br />
Wallet 12cc in leather,<br />
featuring the new<br />
M pattern; and<br />
Meisterstück Le Petit<br />
Prince Solitaire Doué<br />
LeGrand Fountain Pen<br />
featuring a brown<br />
leather cap, etched<br />
with the drawing of the<br />
desert and an airplane<br />
CARAN D’ACHE<br />
palladium-finished<br />
Ecridor Avenue<br />
fountain pen
GOURMET SCENE<br />
LEADING THE WAY<br />
Ana Roš, facing page, is at<br />
the forefront of Slovenian<br />
cuisine, with creations rooted<br />
in the country’s produce<br />
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The tiny country at the heart of Europe is increasingly a major<br />
player in gastronomic circles, and its wonderfully eclectic restaurants<br />
are gaining international esteem // By Alexander Lobrano<br />
A SLICE OF<br />
SLOVENIA<br />
SITTING AT THE CROSSROADS of so many of the Old World’s<br />
gastronomic civilisations – Mediterranean, Germanic, Slavic and<br />
Hungarian – Slovenia is the gastronomic keystone of Europe.<br />
Belying its size (barely half that of Switzerland), this stunningly<br />
beautiful part of the world still flies under the radar but is rapidly<br />
gaining recognition among the gourmet cognoscenti.<br />
Last year, its culinary excellence and uniqueness was recognised<br />
by France’s venerable Michelin Guides, which published its first<br />
handbook on the country. “Our inspectors’ selection showcases the<br />
exceptional quality of the Slovenian culinary scene, the creativity<br />
of its talented chefs, the high quality of the local ingredients and<br />
also the commitment of the chefs to a more sustainable approach<br />
to gastronomy,” said Gwendal Poullennec, international director<br />
for the Michelin Guides, at the publication launch. In this first<br />
edition, Michelin awarded Hiša Franko in Kobarid on the Italian<br />
border two stars and five other Slovenian tables a single star –<br />
an impressive constellation for a country of two million people.<br />
“It’s the greenest cooking in Europe,” says chef Ana Roš of Hiša<br />
Franko (hisafranko.com), explaining the identity of her country’s<br />
little-known kitchen. “Slovenians are deeply connected<br />
to the land, and most of us have gardens and forage for<br />
wild foods, like blueberries, elder blossoms, mushrooms<br />
and wild herbs. Much of our produce is organic, and<br />
we have a passionate communal commitment to<br />
protecting and preserving our environment,” she says.<br />
Roš had originally planned a career as a diplomat before she<br />
met her husband, Valter Kramar, and the pair took over his family’s<br />
auberge. “When we became independent from Yugoslavia in 1991,<br />
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gastronomy had been dormant in Slovenia for a long time. The old<br />
references for great food were France and Vienna, since Slovenia was<br />
part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire for centuries. We had dishes of<br />
our own, of course, but most people saw them as country food and<br />
not what you’d go to a restaurant to eat. Now this has changed, as<br />
contemporary Slovenian cooking reinvents these traditional dishes<br />
with seasonal local produce and a touch of creativity,” says Roš.<br />
The menu at Hiša Franko brims with dishes that are perfect<br />
examples of not only Roš’s lyrical culinary imagination but also<br />
contemporary Slovenian gastronomy. Among the standouts from<br />
a recent tasting menu were tiny ravioli filled with hop shoots in<br />
black bean broth with baby goat brains; trout fillet in a beurre blanc<br />
with poppy seeds and summer apples; and roebuck with bee’s<br />
wax and pollen garum, preserved berries and wild mushrooms.<br />
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA’S CHARMING CAPITAL, is where most travellers<br />
begin their discovery of the country’s excellent cooking, and the<br />
best place for a first delicious lesson is Gostilna Na Gradu (jezersek.<br />
si). A gostilna is a Slovenian version of a tavern or an auberge,<br />
and this one is located in Ljubljana Castle, which is built on an<br />
outcrop overlooking the city. Chefs Luka Jezeršek and Sebastjan<br />
Elbl cook a regularly changing menu of Slovenian favourites,<br />
including braised wild boar cheeks with plum dumplings and sea<br />
bream with fennel, pickled red onions, grapes and capers. Also<br />
located at the castle is Restavracija Strelec (strelec.kaval-group.<br />
si), which has great views over the city from the archers’ tower.<br />
Chef Igor Jagodic proposes an array of dishes that are historic<br />
local favourites but with a modern spin, including Kvarner shrimp<br />
from Slovenia’s brief Mediterranean coastline with veal tongue<br />
and pumpkin, and burek (flaky pastry) filled with curd cheese,<br />
leeks and pine nuts with roasted onion cream.<br />
The edgiest restaurant in Ljubljana is Atelje (restavracijaatelje.<br />
com), which has a Michelin star and a hipster industrial interior<br />
FINEST FISH<br />
Fillet of sea bass,<br />
steamed above a salt<br />
grill from Pri Lojzetu<br />
with Edison bulbs like something you might find in Brooklyn or<br />
Shoreditch. Here, chef Jorg Zupan and his team make almost<br />
everything they serve in-house from seasonal organic produce,<br />
including smoked beef tartare with toasted buckwheat and<br />
artichokes, and broiled Adriatic langoustines in tomato butter.<br />
LEAVING LJUBLJANA to do a clockwise tour of Slovenia’s best<br />
restaurants, it’s an hour’s drive west to Pri Lojzetu (zemono.si),<br />
a Michelin-starred table in a beautiful Baroque hunting lodge built<br />
by Venetian nobles in the Vipava valley near the Italian border<br />
during the 17th century. Chef Tomaž Kavčič serves exquisite tasting<br />
menus that are stunningly original but also deeply respectful of<br />
local traditions. “The essential axis of Slovenian cooking is the<br />
sincerity of its rusticity and the quality of its seasonal produce from<br />
small local farms,” says Kavčič, explaining superb dishes like a pale<br />
green melon soup with wild-nettle croutons, prsut (prosciutto-style<br />
Slovenian ham) crumbs and crayfish with a side of white nectarine<br />
canapés; and risotto with wild nettles, mussels and clams.<br />
If Pri Lojzetu is perfect for lunch when you can sit on the veranda<br />
and enjoy views of the surrounding vineyards, chef Uroš Fakuč’s<br />
Michelin-starred Dam (damhotel.si) 20 minutes up the road in Nova<br />
Gorica is ideal for dinner and staying the night. Fakuč does elegant<br />
and very imaginative contemporary Mediterranean cooking with a<br />
Slavic accent, including dishes like trout sashimi with polenta and<br />
Tolminc cottage cheese (Tolmin is Slovenia’s most famous cheesemaking<br />
town), and scallops with hemp, broccoli and white truffles.<br />
After a meal and a night at Hiša Franko in Kobarid, head for<br />
chef Uroš Štefelin’s Michelin-starred Vila Podvin (vilapodvin.<br />
si) in Radovljica by way of Lake Bled, one of the most beautiful<br />
lakes in Europe. Štefelin does subtly updated versions of age-old<br />
Slovenian dishes, including rainbow trout with horseradish parsnip<br />
cream, pickled gherkins and nasturtium buds, and caviar and herb<br />
crumble, a starter, and venison with buckwheat pilaf, acorn sauce<br />
PETER IRMAN<br />
MODERN TAKE<br />
Gregor Vračko’s<br />
Hiša Denk matches<br />
contemporary flair to<br />
classic dishes<br />
MATEJ LOZAR<br />
LJUBLJANA AIRPORT TO HIŠA FRANKO; GOSTILNA<br />
NA GRADU & RESTAVRACIJI STRELEC; ATELJE; VILA<br />
PODVIN: 64miles/103km; 19miles/31km; 16miles/26km;<br />
16miles/26km; MARIBOR AIRPORT TO GOSTILNA REPOVŽ;<br />
HIŠA DENK; RAJH: 53miles/85km; 15miles/24km;<br />
37miles/60km; PORTOROŽ AIRPORT TO PRI LOJZETU;<br />
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and cabbage-and-potato stew with kale – and the restaurant’s five<br />
rooms are all very comfortable. Don’t miss the fascinating beekeeping<br />
museum in Radovljica – Slovenians are avid beekeepers, with<br />
five beekeepers for every thousand residents, and the Slovenian<br />
countryside is dotted with stacks of colourfully painted beehives.<br />
BREAK THE DRIVE to Maribor, the second-largest city in Slovenia and a<br />
handsome old Hapsburg town once known as Marburg, by stopping<br />
for lunch at Gostilna Repovž (gostilna-repovz.si) in Šentjanž. It<br />
was awarded a Bib Gourmand, the Michelin Guide’s designation<br />
for delicious good-value eating, and it’s one of the country’s most<br />
popular gostilnas serving contemporary comfort-food dishes like<br />
štruklji (rolled dough dumplings) cooked in broth and braised lamb<br />
with curd-cheese dumplings, grapes and parsnips.<br />
Just outside Maribor, chef Gregor Vračko’s beautifully presented<br />
cooking has made his Michelin-starred Hiša Denk (hisadenk.si)<br />
a destination. It occupies a striking modern building in a famed<br />
wine-producing region, hence its superlative wine list (and<br />
it must be noted, Slovenian wines are truly excellent). Expect<br />
regional dishes with a contemporary flair, including pikeperch<br />
fillet with calf’s tongue and cabbage; smoked Pohorje beef with<br />
onions; and an intriguing dessert of rosehips, quince and corn.<br />
No one making a gourmet road trip to Slovenia should miss<br />
a meal at Rajh (rajh.si) in Bakovci, where the traditions of the<br />
kitchen have evolved over five generations of the same family<br />
and tell a delicious story about how Slovenian gastronomy has<br />
evolved, leading to a Bib Gourmand from the Michelin Guide.<br />
Ignac Rajh founded the original inn in 1886, and then moved<br />
it to an estate where he and his family bred horses and ran a<br />
slaughterhouse. During World War II, Rajh, his wife and two<br />
daughters died in Auschwitz, but his son Geza survived and<br />
reopened the restaurant in 1950. When Geza’s son Ignac and<br />
his wife, Marta, took over, the inn moved to its present location in<br />
1969, and it eventually won a reputation throughout Yugoslavia<br />
for the quality of its cooking, a mixture of regional specialities,<br />
including fried carp and bograč (beef-and-pork goulash) and<br />
international dishes. Today it serves succulent contemporary<br />
dishes inspired by traditional Slovenian recipes and produce,<br />
including Mangalica pork with dödöli (Slovenian gnocci) and<br />
mushroom ragout and Prekmurska gibanica, a layered pastry<br />
filled with poppy seeds, walnuts, apples, raisins and quark.<br />
“Our kitchen is like a hinge that moves in every direction.<br />
We get our taste for savoury foods from the Italians, smoke<br />
from the Germans, sour things from the Slavs and some<br />
heat from the Hungarians. This is why the flavours in our<br />
cooking are so balanced and ultimately so Slovenian,” says<br />
owner Tanja Pintarič, Ignac and Marta’s daughter, proudly,<br />
adding the Slovenian equivalent of bon appétit: “Dober Tek!”<br />
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TASTING NOTES<br />
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Bubbly made according to ancestral methods – known to<br />
oenophiles as pétillant-naturel wines – is making a resurgence<br />
from the Loire Valley to upstate New York thanks to its ability to<br />
express both grape and terroir // By Jeffrey T. Iverson<br />
SPARKLING<br />
CHARM<br />
WHY DO WE LOVE sparkling wine? Perhaps it’s the way it titillates<br />
our senses, from the pop of the cork to the effervescent spectacle<br />
in the glass to the ineffable sensation it creates across the palate.<br />
Compared to still wine, the sparkling variety seems positively alive,<br />
encapsulating the bubbling, awe-inducing magic of fermentation<br />
itself. And though Louis Pasteur unveiled the mysteries of that<br />
process years ago, there is still a special reverence in the way we<br />
pour every coupe of prosecco, cava, or Champagne. Now there’s<br />
another style of bubbly that seems to have tapped directly into<br />
this primal fascination – the pétillant-naturel, better known as<br />
“pét-nat”, which over the past two decades has emerged from<br />
obscurity to become a perennial favourite among top sommeliers.<br />
And while some of its iterations have sparked controversy,<br />
today a growing number of pét-nat cuvées are proving it’s a<br />
style that can express terroirs in the most intriguing ways while<br />
recounting chapters of vinous history that were all but forgotten.<br />
Few experts have followed the rise of pét-nat more intimately<br />
than Pascaline Lepeltier, a sommelier renowned both in the United<br />
States for her award-winning wine lists at top New York City<br />
restaurants, and in France for becoming the first woman to win the<br />
nation’s Best Sommelier competition. Lepeltier grew up in France’s<br />
Loire Valley, and began studying wine there in the early 2000s at<br />
a time when the Loire was becoming a locus of a new “natural”<br />
winemaking movement, which saw artisan vignerons abandoning<br />
pesticides in the vineyards and oenological additives in the cellar.<br />
Some of them, starting with the late Christian Chaussard of Domaine<br />
le Briseau and Vincent Carême in Vouvray, had begun to experiment<br />
with a largely forgotten technique called the méthode ancestrale<br />
for making naturally sparkling wines, or pétillant-naturels.<br />
For a young student of wine like Lepeltier, this new breed of<br />
bubbly was a revelation. “The Loire became the heart of a pét-nat<br />
revival, and I really got into the style,” she recalls. Its diversity alone<br />
was remarkable, from sparkling rosés of cabernet franc, malbec or<br />
pinot noir, boasting an exquisite balance of fresh fruit sweetness<br />
and acidity, like those of cult winery Les Capriades in Touraine,<br />
to refreshing, complex sparkling whites like Carême’s pioneering<br />
l’Ancestrale cuvée, made from old-vine chenin bottle-aged up to<br />
24 months. “I remember thinking this was truly superb sparkling<br />
wine,” she says. And yet it fit the profile of no wine she knew. Why?<br />
Because, unlike the method for making Champagne (called the<br />
méthode traditionnelle), which involves adding sugar and selected<br />
yeasts to dry, still wine to trigger a second fermentation and produce<br />
bubbles, the méthode ancestrale used for pét-nat works by bottling<br />
wine when it is still fermenting and a precise amount of grape<br />
sugars remains, so it will continue fermenting inside just enough to<br />
create the desired pressure. It’s an oenological high-wire act, but<br />
when successful, says Lepeltier, the result is a wine like no other.<br />
“A Champagne, or méthode traditionnelle sparkling wine,<br />
represents an entirely different metabolisation of the aromatic<br />
compounds,” says Lepeltier. “With a pét-nat chardonnay I expect<br />
fresh grape aromas, and more zesty, citrusy and slightly floral<br />
aspects. Whereas with a Champagne the chardonnay takes on<br />
autolytic characteristics from the lees, like brioche, butter, and<br />
cream – it’s really another world of aromatics.” If many aromas<br />
in great Champagne are related to the vinification process,<br />
the best pét-nats tend to highlight the innate fruit aromas of a<br />
specific grape variety while boasting lively acidity even when<br />
residual sugar remains. “It should be a varietal wine – you should<br />
LEADING LIGHT<br />
Pascaline Lepeltier has brought an<br />
expertise on the old ways of sparkling<br />
wine from France to America<br />
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be able to taste the difference between a pét-nat from chenin,<br />
gewürztraminer, or carignan,” she says. “A pét-nat should be fun to<br />
drink; it can be very complex, but very refreshing at the same time.”<br />
IN THE PAST DECADE, that potent combination has seduced wine<br />
lovers from San Francisco to Tokyo. In 2016, the website Eater<br />
summarised the hype by dubbing pét-nat “the new rosé”. Given this<br />
blossoming market, winemakers around the world are adding a pétnat<br />
cuvée to their range. But this profusion of product can be a<br />
headache for sommeliers like Lepeltier, today a managing partner at<br />
Racines NY, where her list includes dozens of pét-nats. “The problem<br />
is it’s become so popular that you have a lot of disappointing wines<br />
now,” she says. “Bottles that have zero bubbles, are cloudy, heavy,<br />
or mousey – it’s lazy winemaking, and it doesn’t help the style to<br />
continue to grow and be taken seriously by people, which it should be.”<br />
In Montlouis-sur-Loire, an appellation mainly dedicated to<br />
chenin-based traditional sparkling wines, winemakers fought for 15<br />
years to convince labelling authorities to accept pétillant-naturel as<br />
a legitimate alternative to méthode traditionnelle. “I created my first<br />
pét-nat in 2005 because it made no sense to me to make sparkling<br />
wine with added yeast, when every other wine in my range was<br />
born of spontaneous fermentation,” says Damien Delecheneau<br />
of Domaine La Grange Tiphaine. In 2020, they finally won, and<br />
can now label their additive-free, bottle-fermented sparkling wines<br />
with the Montlouis-sur-Loire AOC. His 2019 sparkling rosé, then<br />
labelled as table wine, was already ranked among the top 8% of<br />
all wines by online wine marketplace Vivino’s 35 million users,<br />
but for Delecheneau that recognition mattered more. “My ambition<br />
is not to make a trendy wine,” he says. “I’m here to ensure the<br />
transmission of a viticultural heritage to the next generation.”<br />
The Montlouis-sur-Loire winemakers dubbed their interpretation<br />
of the style “Pétillant Originel”, an apt description of what a pétnat<br />
essentially is – the original sparkling wine. More than a<br />
century before Dom Pérignon is said to have invented Champagne,<br />
Benedictine monks at an abbey in Saint-Hilaire in Languedoc were<br />
already using the method to create what is now considered the first<br />
sparkling white wine produced in France: Blanquette de Limoux.<br />
Manuscripts from 1531 detail the monks’ production of their corkstoppered<br />
flasks of lightly sparkling wine redolent of honey, acacia<br />
and stewed apple. Made from mauzac grapes, it is still bottled<br />
according to tradition while the wine is still fermenting during the<br />
“old” or waning moon in March. In nearby Gaillac, essentially the<br />
same method for a making sparkling mauzac wine is dubbed the<br />
méthode gaillacoise. The paragon of the style is undoubtedly the<br />
Mauzac Nature cuvée from Domaine Plageoles, a lip-smacking<br />
wine of great finesse with notes of citrus oil, apple and hazelnut,<br />
by one of this ancient winemaking region’s oldest wine families.<br />
Once France’s best-kept secrets, today thanks to the pét-nat<br />
craze, such wines are being discovered by oenophiles globally. Take<br />
cerdon, a sparkling cru from the high-altitude vineyards of Bugey<br />
in eastern France. “Fifteen years ago the market for cerdon was<br />
mostly local,” says winemaker Patrick Bottex, “whereas today we<br />
have a growing demand for exports from around the world.” And no<br />
wonder. Using the méthode ancestrale, Bottex produces deep-pink<br />
sparkling wines, boasting tantalising sweetness, grapefruit-like<br />
acidity and complex aromas of strawberry and currants. For Anthony<br />
Lynch, son of the iconic importer Kermit Lynch, this once forgotten<br />
Alpine specialty, made essentially the same way for centuries,<br />
is simply “one of the most delicious beverages in existence”.<br />
AROUND THE WORLD, similar rediscoveries are taking place today.<br />
In Italy, a growing number of producers are returning to the old<br />
ways, eschewing industrial techniques to produce lambrusco<br />
and prosecco using only the grapes’ natural sugars, according<br />
to Ernest Ifkovitz of PortoVino Selections, a specialist in Italian<br />
bottle-fermented wines. “Pét-nat’s Italian cousin is called metodo<br />
ancestrale,” he explains: “Glou-glou, easy-drinking aperitivo wines<br />
with fizzy pressure of 2-2.5 bars, but always in the dry brut style,<br />
and thus perfect for a meal as well.” In Germany’s Palatinate region,<br />
Marie Menger-Krug of Motzenbäcker – the country’s most historic<br />
Deutsche Sektgut, or sparkling wine producer, dating back to 1758<br />
– has embraced the méthode rurale (another term for méthode<br />
ancestrale) to create a range of wines from chardonnay, sauvignon<br />
blanc and riesling that recall “the origins of effervescence in wine”.<br />
In North America, winemakers are using pétillant-naturel as a<br />
means to rediscover the unimagined potential of oft-maligned hybrid<br />
grapes (most of which were born of native North American varietals).<br />
From the fabulous Ces Petits Imprévus cuvée of 100% vidal by<br />
Domaine du Nival in Quebec to pét-nats made from marquette,<br />
frontenac, or st croix by La Garagista in Vermont. In New York’s Finger<br />
Lakes, the Chëpìka wine project seeks to restore the reputation of the<br />
catawba and delaware grapes while reviving a sparkling winemaking<br />
tradition in a region that until Prohibition was a world-renowned<br />
producer of bubbly. Founded in 2016, Chëpìka is a joint venture<br />
between winemaker Nathan Kendall and (naturally) sommelier<br />
Pascaline Lepeltier. “Nobody has vinified these grapes the way we<br />
are doing it in more than 100 years,” she enthuses. And perhaps<br />
that’s the deeper allure of pét-nat – drinking one is like tasting a<br />
wine from another era. With their primal fruit aromas, vibrant acidity<br />
and jubilant bubbles, they transport us back to the infancy of wine.<br />
“A pét-nat should be fun to drink; it can be<br />
complex, but refreshing at the same time”<br />
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NEW WORLD, OLD METHODS<br />
La Garagista of Vermont’s take<br />
on the méthode ancestrale<br />
DEIRDRE HEEKIN<br />
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REINVENTING<br />
TH E REAL<br />
The landscapes of Gerhard Richter, now on display in<br />
Zurich, demonstrate the German artist’s remarkably<br />
influential vision of our relationship to the natural world<br />
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THE ARTIST’S<br />
ARTIST<br />
There are no bigger names in the European art world than Gerhard Richter, the German<br />
artist whose first solo show came all the way back in 1964. Over the ensuing five<br />
decades, he’s been an innovative creator and a dynamic teacher – and, remarkably, a<br />
retiring and inscrutable character in an increasingly loud industry. Richter has largely<br />
allowed his canvases (he’s primarily, but not exclusively, a painter) to do the talking,<br />
and they have earned him retrospectives at MoMA (2002), Tate Modern (2011) and<br />
the Pompidou Centre (2012), among other top museums around the globe. His auction<br />
sales record is almost unparalleled in recent decades, and his astonishing diversity<br />
of works means that even now there can be fresh perspectives on his talent. The<br />
exhibition Gerhard Richter: Landscape, is one such example – bringing together for<br />
the first time more than <strong>13</strong>0 outdoor-themed works that span his full career. Initially<br />
shown at the Vienna Kunstforum until 7 March, it moves to the Zurich Kunsthaus for<br />
an extended run (26 March – 25 July). Demonstrating his constant experimentation<br />
and roving curiosity, the works on display are a reminder of just how varied Richter’s<br />
career has been and how his influence extends from our relationship to photographic<br />
stillness to the intellectual tradition of the Romantics. It’s a remarkable legacy and, for<br />
the 89-year-old artist, one that continues to grow. kunsthaus.ch<br />
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Eis [Ice], 1981, oil on<br />
canvas, 100 x 70cm,<br />
from the collection of<br />
Ruth McLoughlin, Monaco<br />
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A handful of Richter works<br />
on display at the Vienna<br />
Kunstforum, including<br />
Ruhrtalbrücke (left, 1969)<br />
FACING PAGE<br />
Sternbild [Constellation],<br />
1969, oil on canvas, 92<br />
x 92cm, Frieder Burda<br />
Museum, Baden-Baden<br />
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ALL ARTWORKS © GERHARD RICHTER 2020; PHOTO CHRISTOF SCHELBERT, OLTEN (TOP); N<strong>EU</strong>ES MUS<strong>EU</strong>M NÜRNBERG/ANETTE KRADISCH (BOTTOM LEFT)<br />
INSIDE LOOK<br />
THIS PAGE<br />
Clockwise from top: Piz Surlej,<br />
Piz Corvatsch, 1992, oil on<br />
photograph, 8.9 x 12.6cm,<br />
from the collection of Peter<br />
and Elisabeth Bloch; Venedig<br />
[Venice], 1986, oil on canvas,<br />
121 x 86cm, Frieder Burda<br />
Museum, Baden-Baden;<br />
Stadtbild PL [Cityscape PL],<br />
1970, oil on canvas, 170 x<br />
170cm, private collection<br />
FACING PAGE<br />
Waldhaus [Forest House], 2004,<br />
oil on canvas, 92 x 126cm,<br />
private collection<br />
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THE LAST WORD<br />
CHRIS FROGGATT<br />
The racing driver and NetJets Brand Ambassador on life off the track<br />
TRAVEL<br />
Sun worshipper or thrill-seeker?<br />
I would say I am more of the<br />
latter. I love new adventures,<br />
whether it’s in the desert – riding<br />
buggies and quad bikes through<br />
the dunes, then relaxing by the<br />
warmth of a campfire at night –<br />
or spending a day diving out at<br />
sea. I have never visited Japan,<br />
but I have many friends who ski<br />
there and have only heard good<br />
things. That’s the next destination<br />
to visit when I can.<br />
FOOD<br />
Top names or hidden gems? One<br />
hundred percent, my preference<br />
is for spots packed with locals<br />
that serve locally sourced, fresh,<br />
simple food. I really enjoy that<br />
authentic experience, but, of<br />
course, there’s always a time<br />
and place for those big names –<br />
it just depends on the mood.<br />
ARTS<br />
Still life or live performance? Not<br />
spending enough time in galleries<br />
or museums, I have to say it’s live<br />
performance. I love the energy<br />
and connection you form with the<br />
performers whether it’s a concert<br />
or at the theatre. Over the past<br />
couple of years, I’ve started to really<br />
enjoy stand-up comedy. I had the<br />
pleasure of seeing Kevin Hart on<br />
his Irresponsible Tour at The O2<br />
in London; that was particularly<br />
memorable for me.<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Good book or big screen? I really<br />
enjoy movies and TV shows, although<br />
I have a bad habit of starting<br />
something and never finishing it.<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
Latest gadgets or digital detox? I am<br />
a big fan of tech and incorporating<br />
it into day-to-day life to make things<br />
even more efficient. I have started<br />
using a Whoop Strap, and I’ve found<br />
this fitness tracker so useful. It has a<br />
feature to monitor sleep and recovery<br />
that is brilliant.<br />
FUTURE PLANS<br />
Stay on track or exciting moves<br />
around the corner? This year was<br />
extremely successful with Ferrari in<br />
the GT World Challenge, but I feel<br />
there is some unfinished business<br />
there. Outside of this, as for most GT<br />
drivers, competing at the legendary<br />
24 Hours of Le Mans – and the World<br />
Endurance Championship it is part of<br />
– is the dream.<br />
ACCOMMODATION<br />
Grandes dames, luxe design, or<br />
eminently private? When it comes<br />
to travel and hotel preferences, my<br />
style is more toward minimalist/<br />
modern. Very neutral tones: light<br />
wood floors, white/grey marble<br />
bathrooms, sparsely furnished,<br />
and a nice firm bed. I travel<br />
regularly both with racing and my<br />
personal life, and I’ve come to<br />
prioritise the level of service and<br />
attitude from staff.<br />
JULIAN RENTZSCH<br />
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