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How Australia's artisan producers pivoted to survive

Tough times in the restaurant trade are prompting quality local suppliers to build a new customer base.

  • Necia Wilden

Winemakers step in and step up with a singular vision

Taking over from star predecessors is always a challenge. But these single-vineyard aficionados have done it with aplomb.

  • Max Allen

Sydney to Bathurst and back in a Tesla Model 3 Long Range

Electric car drivers are used to having 'range anxiety' but this model puts that condition to rest.

  • Tony Davis

Beware, Brisbane – giant birds are striking in September

Florentijn Hofman, the Dutch artist behind Sydney Harbour's supersized rubber duck, is unveiling his latest work at this year's Brisbane Festival.

  • John McDonald

The right tool for the right job: Samsung's Galaxy Tab S7+

For anyone who wants to take handwritten notes on top of an audio recording, this is a killer device.

  • John Davidson
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This Month

Brisbane Festival swaps blockbusters for the backblocks

New artistic director Louise Bezzina has deconstructed the festival for the COVID-19 era, vowing it will visit all 190 of the Queensland capital's suburbs.

  • Michael Bailey

And now for Rolls-Royce's post-opulence era

What do 'people of success' want in tough times? The head of the luxury British marque's Bespoke division explains.

  • Tony Davis

Burberry pins recovery on animal avatars and gaming delights

The virus has slashed the luxury British brand's sales but it's hoping a focus on sustainability and Chinese social media will put it back on track.

  • Lauren Indvik

Nutricosmetics pioneer shakes it up with a factory to call her own

A new Sydney bio-fermentation facility will enable Beauty Chef founder Carla Oates to concoct ever more powerful formulations of her hot-selling ingestibles.

  • Georgina Safe

CEO beats old injuries and new aches with yoga app

Richard Maloney has used technology to practise asanas in airport lounges, on a plane and around the world, from Bali to Bolivia.

  • Life & Leisure
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Now you can call New York's Waldorf Astoria home

A $US1 billion revamp is adding uber-luxury residences to the mythic Manhattan hotel, but the city is facing a glut of apartments already.

  • Edwin Heathcote

Hard seltzers find their mark with the wellness generation

But this not-so-young wine hack is unimpressed.

  • Max Allen

Online gallery Curatorial+Co defies the times to go physical

I just want to do my own thing, curator and founder Sophie Vander says of her new 'anti-gallery' in Sydney's Redfern.

  • Jane Albert

Bentley reaches for the heavens with new Flying Spur

Sports sedans don’t come much bigger than the luxe marque's new flagship, nor much more expensive.

  • Tony Davis

Jackson Wiederhoeft has bigger plans than dressing Lady Gaga

A just-released collection of eye-popping bridal gowns, completed in lockdown in NYC, will fund the 26-year-old Texan's crazier fashion fantasies.

  • Cat Woods

The star architect bringing a 'stacked forest' of apartments to Sydney

Celebrated Japanese designer Kengo Kuma reflects on his first residential project in Australia and designing for a post-COVID-19 world.

  • Stephen Clark

In the four-wheel-drive market, retro-chic is all the rage

The new Grenadier and Bronco models prove that everything old is new again – but will you be buying one?

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  • Tony Davis

Concrete colossi of war-ravaged Europe captured in black and white

A limited-edition collection of photographs by interior designer Don Cameron channels the immense power of the Continent's far-flung Brutalist beauties.

  • Stephen Todd

As a kid he hated running. Now this CEO's hooked on ultra-marathons

'I'm obsessed with going to very dark places to learn something I never knew about myself,' says Physio Inq founder Jonathan Moody.

  • Life & Leisure

July

Taste-testing Bollinger in my Ugg boots is one upside to COVID-19

It's not quite the same as being flown half way around the world for luxury releases, but there are unexpected compensations to virtual wine tastings.

  • Max Allen
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First electric Mini goes the distance without pushing the boundaries

Although it has plenty of charm and smarts, the battery-only Mini Cooper SE feels like a missed opportunity.

  • Tony Davis

COVID compensation: Let us eat cake

Around the country, custom bakers are seeing an unexpected spike in demand for their buttercream-filled little luxuries.

  • Necia Wilden

US PGA Championship – Glory’s first shot

In the topsy-turvy world that is 2020, the traditional last of the year's four major golf tournaments will be first off the tee on an eerily empty course.

  • Richard Allen

Qatar bets on demand for 'packaged' private jet deals

A new program offering 50 hours of private jet travel at one upfront pre-purchased price puts a new spin on hedging.

  • Fiona Carruthers

Indigenous fashion (finally) steps into the limelight

First Nations designers are hopeful of a genuinely inclusive future for their industry, which 'helps non-Indigenous people experience our culture'.

  • Dan F Stapleton