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Property
Executive property
Luxurious houses for sale nationally this week include a three-bedroom Balinese-inspired pad on the beach at Thirroul.
Cellar door comes home
A wine room where the basement once would be is the perfect setting for gourmet tastings.
Suburb profile | South Yarra
Units are an affordable way to call this stylish neighbourhood home and changes to planning rules have made more available.
An island inside
A freestanding kitchen bench is a versatile oasis where work and play can happily co-exist, writes Paul Best.
Travel
Artist in residence
Original works by sculptor and painter Mark Schaller will bring a new regional hotel to life.
Simplicity meets innovation
The emergence of a cutting-edge culinary scene is of no surprise in a city whose motto is in part “Bologna the Fat”.
Where life moves at a gentler pace
Although Neil Perry’s Rockpool is perfectly friendly, it’s unlikely it would let kids scramble up onto the bar.
Traveller | Thomas Hamel
The principal of interior design firm Thomas Hamel & Associates spends any spare time overseas at decorative arts museums.
Food & wine
Sea’s harvest on menu, with a catch
Top chefs will share their crusade for sustainable fishing at Melbourne’s Food and Wine festival.
Broke Fordwich: the Hunter Valley’s best-kept secret
Animals have a nice life in the sub-region of the lower Hunter Valley that has been planted with vines since the early 1820s.
Hot summer challenges a cold-loving varietal wine
Weingut Ott in the Wagram is one of Austria’s finest producers of grüner veltliner.
Experience the universe in a glass
The first time I had champagne I had absolutely no idea what I was drinking. I was backpacking around France.
Fashion and design
Fashion labels look for the right fit for Winter Olympics
Dressing their Olympians has obvious appeal for Australian and New Zealand labels and but those sponsorships come with risks.
Beat this, you digital upstarts
Stand-out timepieces at the year’s first watch fair in Geneva suggest the truly smart devices are mechanical.
Reviews | technology
Pint-sized perfection from Panasonic
Panasonic’s new Lumix DMC-GM1 is a serious camera in the body of a toy. It could be the best camera you ever slip into your pocket.
New phablet doesn’t do things by halves
What’s special about Nokia’s new low-cost, half-phone, half-tablet, Lumia 1320 is that it’s half the price of other phablets.
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Dream machine delights in Californian odyssey
If you’re going to drive through the California Desert and there are only two of you, the Aston-Martin Vanquish Volante is ideal.
Lexus model of grace and discretion
While the ES 350 sedan won’t get pulses racing, it is one of the most refined, roomiest and best-equipped cars for the money.
Reviews | arts
Down Under journey of Piranesi’s charming prints
The clue is in the title: Piranesi’s Grandest Tour: From Europe to Australia.
Highly successful but still highly strung?
Anxiety has no respect for status. Magazine editor Scott Stossel needs tranquilisers and booze to handle a problem so severe it almost ruined a visit to the Kennedy compound.
Film | 12 Years a Slave; Paranormal Activity
The evil of slavery makes a more gripping tale than the evil of spooks lying in wait behind the door.
Virgin’s Borghetti on war and collateral damage
Virgin CEO John Borghetti is famously calm and measured – but he is clearly pleased to have Qantas, which passed him over for the chief executive job, on the defensive.
Sport
Pedal Power | John Armstrong
The chief financial officer of SEEK says you will know you have too many bikes when your wife tells you.
Etiquette to the fore on fairways
In the final of our three-part series, Golf Australia board member Jill Spargo revealswhat the game has taught her about life.
$18m racing extravaganza out of the gate
Racing authorities are hoping for a “grand final” feel for the first year of The Championships week in Sydney in April.
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Pedal power | Jeff Provan
The founder and design director of Neometro once ran his daughter off the bike path and into the Yarra River.
