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Inside Dubai’s Longevity Scene
Dubai is building a new market around healthspan designed for life inside the city. To understand how this shift is playing out, we looked at some of the most visible longevity addresses.
Inside Dubai’s Longevity Scene
Dubai is building a new market around healthspan designed for life inside the city. To understand how this shift is playing out, we looked at some of the most visible longevity addresses.
How to Sleep When the World Feels Unsettled
There are nights when the body is tired, but sleep still does not come easily. Or it comes lightly, in fragments. In periods of political instability and relentless headlines, it becomes a familiar experience for many.
Inside London’s New Six Senses Urban Retreat
Six Senses has opened its first UK property, bringing its wellness-led hospitality into London for the first time.
Island Time: Six Eid al-Adha Escapes to Consider Now
From the Maldives and Istanbul to Mauritius and Sri Lanka, these are the kinds of places far enough to feel like a reset and close enough to make sense for a long weekend.
Lifestyle
Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City: Can a New Kind of Capitalism Be Built From Scratch?
Bhutan is building more than a new city in Gelephu. It is testing whether economic growth, cultural identity, and wellbeing can be planned together from the start.
Private Banking: Wealthy Are Spending Now Less On Status And More On Longevity
As performance and clarity start to influence deals and decisions, private banking is beginning to place health inside wealth strategy, alongside assets and liquidity.
Why Private Members’ Clubs are Replacing Social Life
There’s a global shift. Private members’ clubs have moved from legacy status symbols to a practical layer of city life: places to meet, work, and spend time well.
Clothing for Emotional Alignment: What Cultural Intelligence Fashion Means
We live in a rhythm of relocations, constant travel, and shifting social codes. In a new place, anxiety tends to arrive before you settle in. MYKAFTAN offers a practical answer through clothing.
People
Mark Sands: “The Most Valuable Outcome Is a Shift in Mindset”
In our interview with Mark Sands, Vice President of Wellness at Six Senses Hotels, we discuss what defines a meaningful wellness experience today and how it is likely to evolve in the future.
Mohamed Badie: “A deeply human space respects the body and the senses. It allows silence”
We sit down with the founder of award-winning Badie Architects, Mohamed Badie, to talk about what it actually takes to work at the intersection of structure and emotion.
Sohum Wellness Sanctuary – A Place of Quiet Power in Dubai
We spoke with founder Tanya Mansotra about her approach to deep stress recovery and why Dubai needs a place where Ayurvedic practices stay deep in a fast city.
CLIO: A Desert Artwork You Can Experience and Feel
We sit down with contemporary artist Agron Hoti, the creative force behind CLIO, a 10-kilometre land art set to launch in Dubai’s Margham desert – one of the most ambitious art projects the region has seen.
Wellbeing
Submersive and the Future of Immersive Wellness
Wellness is entering a new spatial language. Set to open in Austin in 2027, Submersive brings together immersive art, neuroscience and bathing culture.
A Place to Return To: Terra Introduces a Membership Built Around Nature
At Terra Pavilion in Expo City Dubai, a new membership programme offers a more continuous way to engage with nature. It brings people back into contact with the living world.
The Quiet Hack. How Vipassana Became a Tool of the Tech Elite
Tech CEOs spent years trying to hack productivity from the outside. Vipassana offered a harsher proposition: to turn inward and confront the mind itself.
Tulah: Longevity Retreat That Could Change the Way We Live Now
Marking a bold new era for integrative wellness, Tulal, a $100 million sanctuary in Kerala, is designed to redefine what it means to live a balanced life.
Beauty
What if the future of skincare is no longer a cream, but a beam of light?
LYMA is part of a new wave of beauty that brings advanced laser technology into the home.
The Perfume Wardrobe: A Modern Guide to Scent Layering
Today, fragrance layering has moved from a perfume-insider habit to the center of beauty culture. Our beauty editor shares a step-by-step guide to do it the right way.
Mitochondrial Antioxidants in Skincare: Can They Become the Next Big Thing?
Mitochondrial antioxidants are shaping one of the most compelling new directions in skincare, as premium beauty increasingly focuses on skin longevity.
Longevity Pods: What They Are, and Why They Matter for Beauty
Longevity pods turn at-home care into a calming immersive treatment: salt, red light, oxygen, sound, and scent combined into one guided session.
Travel
The Maybourne Riviera and a New Mood on the French Coast
Above Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, The Maybourne Riviera brings a contemporary wellbeing edge to one of Europe’s most storied coastlines.
6 European Destinations with a Wellbeing Focus This Summer
From the Cyclades to the French Alps and Burgundy, a new generation of stays is shaping travel around wellbeing and meaningful nature experiences.
What It Feels Like to Stay at Shamwari Private Game Reserve
Shamwari feels less like a safari lodge and more like a cinematic hideout: hectares of wilderness, Big Five on the horizon, and only seven lodges immersed in the landscape.
The New Era of Premium Travel: Hotels Built for Recovery and Sleep
Today, more travelers arrive at a hotel with a specific goal: recover quickly. A new kind of hospitality is quietly taking shape and it is growing in plain sight.
Culture
Mark Rothko Exhibition in Florence – and Why Hotel Savoy Is the Place to Stay
As Florence hosts a major Mark Rothko retrospective through 23 August 2026, Hotel Savoy offers one of the city’s strongest addresses shaped by art, history and privileged access.
HH Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi and Jaipur Rugs unveiled a collection of artisan carpets
Inspired by the ancient landscapes of Mleiha and Faya, Whispers of the Desert collection translates desert beauty time into contemporary woven art.
Inside Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026
Go for the installations, stay for JAX – an industrial maze turned into a slow, immersive walk through light, sound and scale.
UAE Art Season 2026 – The Shows That Matter
The UAE’s art season is now in its clearest stretch: major exhibitions in Dubai, museum anchors in Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah’s institutional programme running in parallel. We curated specific shows worth planning around.
