At VIOLETAS, culture, art, style and design come together to create a place for collectors and shoppers to peruse an exclusive array of home and personal pieces. Created by mother-daughter duo Patricia Anton Himmel and Patricia Kronfle, VIOLETAS boasts an extensive inventory of everything from unique pieces of art, jewelry and gifts to original antiques and luxurious home accessories like cowhide rugs, furniture and even Baccarat chandeliers.

Intermix opens it most ambitious store yet in NYC's meat packing district.

Gucci celebrates its 90th anniversary by opening Gucci Museo inside Florence, Italy's Palazzo della Mercanzia at the Piazza Signoria this Wednesdsay.

Home sales have begun to rebound again in the Bridgehampton and Sagaponack areas. Although houses wwth higher asking prices are still experiencing a lack of interest from buyers, Bridgehampton remains, as home builder Joe Farrel of Farrel Building Company states, "the hottest market [and] the easiest place to sell houses".

Media billionaire Rupert Murdoch has finally sold Rosehearty, his historic estate in the swank Long Island, New York community of Oyster Bay. The media mogul and his feisty wife, Wendi Deng first purchased the prime piece of waterfront property in 2003 and listed it back on the open market back in June 2007 with an asking price of $14,800,000. Over the last four and some odd years the price tag of the bucolic 4.6 estate has been taken off and put back on the market several times while the price tag tumbled to $9,995,000.

The Johnnie Walker House Combines Recycled Materials With Refined Shanghai Style to create a modern green design. In a joint effort with Singapore based agency Asylum, Agency Love developed the interiors out of a variety of materials and resources used in the whiskey making-process. The idea of developing an ‘Embassy for Whiskey’ and designing an experience more than the space played a major part in the design process and outcome. It was important to capture, grow, and nurture the whiskey culture within Shanghai’s elite.

Brazilian wine has long fascinated me since I first heard about their production of top-quality sparklers. When a friend of mine, Glen, who is my partner in crime and travel—as well as an expert in the food, wine and history of Brazil, recently learned that I was undertaking some serious study of wine, he began […]

Colombian musician, superstar, and philanthropist Shakira is well known for her love of soccer and will be performing live to officially open Olympiysky, the new four-billion-hryvnia (approximately $500 million) stadium in Kiev, Ukraine on Oct. 8.

Consumers are beginning to purchase big-ticket items through their mobile phones. A Blue Nile customer recently bought a diamond engagement ring that cost more than $300,000 through the company’s iPhone app.

Soiree, one of Dubai’s best known multi-brand boutiques, celebrates its three-year anniversary in October. A must-stop destination for fashion lovers from around the region, Soiree has cemented its name as the premier destination for some of the most talented international designers.

Modernity meets the decadance of decades past in a tale about the woman of today.

Katie Holmes, whose new thriller Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark came out last month, has accepted a TV role on the hit CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. The show premiered in 2005 and has gained an incredible fan base through its unique premise and stars Jason Segel, Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan, and Neil Patrick Harris.

Kate Spade New York President and Creative Director Deborah Lloyd has teamed up with 2010 Independent Handbag Designer Award recipient and Follis Handbag designer Catherine Meyer.

The sales environment for German luxury car brand Mercedes-Benz has become “a bit more challenging” in China, as sales growth slowed over the summer, a senior company executive for the luxury auto brand said. Luxury car sales have defied a marked slowdown in the growth rate of China’s overall auto market this year and have been soaring. Sales by Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz unit grew nearly 60% during the first half of this year. But sales growth slowed in July and August, said Klaus Maier, head of Mercedes-Benz in China, in an interview Friday. For the first eight months of the year, Mercedes-Benz sales in China totaled 123,590, up 41% from a year earlier, he said. The company didn’t release specific Mercedes-Benz sales-growth figures in China for July or August.

TAI Entertainment invites you to preview Spring at Shop Splash S/S 2012 Style Lounge & Show tomorrow night at Delano at 9 pm. Hosted by fashion blogger Amanda Del Duca of Capture Fashion and the girls behind We Can Pretend, the Style Lounge & Show will feature Grey Goose cocktails and a presentation of collections by Alexis Indah, Wildfox Couture, Maya Swimwear and Citrine by the Stones.

On Monday, Oct. 3, celebrities will gather for Starry Night Stories, an event to benefit Bellevue Hospital’s Reach Out and Read program, which makes books and parent counseling an integral part of pediatric care. Co-chaired by actress Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich, the event features actors reading children’s books aloud, just as Bellevue’s volunteers do daily.

China’s rising band of rich is made up mostly of young, single males, according to a survey. The HSBC corporation and international research company Nielsen released their findings from a survey that attempts to dissect the makeup of the richest 10 percent of the population of eight countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The countries focused on were mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia.

Chef Andrew Carmellini is set to bring gourmet to concession stands in Madison Square Garden (after its reopening in October.) With restaurants like the Dutch and the Locanda Verde on his CV, the upscale food he will bring to Madison Square Garden, in all of their concession stand glory, is sure to wow. After being closed for 20 weeks, Madison Square Garden is about to unveil its new upgraded carte du jour (with five new gourmet concession stands to start) as part of a six-year, $850 million refurbishment.