By Mary Mullaj The Montage Hotel Beverly Hills is the first new luxury hotel to be built in Beverly Hills in more than 16 years. The eight-story hotel makes no effort to be avant-garde in its design, but instead reverts to traditional Southern California Spanish Colonial Revival style complete with terra cotta roofs and a […]

Stunning Mediterranean masterpiece in guard gated Williams Island. Waterfront with 240 ft on the water! Only home on a double lot at Island Estates! 6700 sq ft, 5 beds/6 baths, double garage, exquisite design and interior finishes, marble flooring, stunning master suite, gourmet chef’s kitchen, soothing pool area with fantastic water views. All Williams Island […]

By Mary Mullaj Brand new luxury hotel in California is for the dogs. The affluent dogs, that is, or as the hotel likes to categorize them, the “Distinguished/Dog.” The 13,500-sqaure-foot Hollywood D Pet Hotel offers a promising alternative to the doghouse, with hotel and spa amenities to alleviate the guilt of leaving your pooch while […]

“Ideally, everyone at an art fair ends up feeling diminished. It’s rough out there on the floor. Talent, status, ambition, and greed duke it out. Nobody knows who is winning because the ground is always shifting,” writes Vanity Fair‘s Dave Hickey in a column that reflects on Frieze Art Fair, in London, and prepares for […]

By Mary Mullaj We already informed you about how the new SLS Hotel is the epitome of chic. And now, we can take it one step further. The space is downright decadent, thanks to its restaurant, The Bazaar. Bazaar consists of several gathering areas that overflow onto one main space, so while the plan is […]

There’s an old joke that asks, ‘When is an actor not an actor?’ The answer is: most of the time. Michael Caine, however, seems to be the exception to the rule, because it seems like he’s ALWAYS working. He’s been in more than one hundred films, from studs to duds, including: Zulu, Alfie, Educating Rita, […]

As an update to previous posts, one that might bring a bit of closure to the item, Tommy Hilfiger has decided to delist his $50 million duplex condo at the Plaza. It was the priciest apartment on the Manhattan market after going up for sale in September. According to the Post, sources say the designer […]

By Mary Mullaj With the hurting economy, it’s not just working class folks who are buying secondhand; high-end resale and consignment shops have sales dramatically this year. An example of this is Buffalo Exchange, a luxury resale chain with 33 stores and 3 franchises across the US, that forecasts revenue of about $55 million in […]

Art Basel Miami Beach is finally upon us. Haute Living Florida’s Art Basel edition just arrived from the printers, and the issue will make its way online this week. But even within its 206 pages, there wasn’t room to mention all of the events, exhibitions, and fabulous displays that will appear all over the city […]