The Treehouse Treatment Rooms at Spa Botánico, the luxury full-service spa at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, offer individuals and couples the ultimate in tropical paradise pampering. Guests of the 5-star resort in Puerto Rico, or the fortunate few who own one of the beachfront homes at West Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve Residences, can spoil themselves to … Read more

A new study exploring what drives people to make luxury purchases has found that it may hinge on where a particular consumer lives. University of Delaware researcher Jaehee Jung, along with researches at universities in nine other countries, looked at consumer’s perceptions of luxury and found that people in different countries buy luxury goods for very different reasons. … Read more

The design for the new Wilshire Grand, the 73-story, $1-billion hotel and office skyscraper set to be built at Wilshire Boulevard and Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles, was finally unveiled by its developer Korean Airlines yesterday. Spanning one-story taller than the 72-story U.S. Bank Tower on Bunker Hill, the Wilshire Grand will be the tallest building west of … Read more

This stunning and secluded Italian Villa–designed by renowned architect Robert Sinclair–is located high above Beverly Hills in the prestigious, guard-gated community of Beverly Park, cherished for its large-scale estate properties and for offering its distinguished residents the ultimate in privacy and security with full-time guards patrolling the community’s private avenues and manning three guard-house entrances 24 hours-a-day.… Read more

When the 85th annual Academy Awards is held on Sunday, February 24, the fortunate stars who hear their names announced after “And the winner is …”  will have a stylish, elegant lounge to relish their victory in backstage thanks to Los Angeles designer Madeline Stuart. Billed as the Architectural Digest Greenroom, the room will be an Art Deco–style … Read more

If you’ve ever turned a page to one of his critically acclaimed novels you now have an entirely new medium to experience Douglas Coupland’s artistry. The Canadian author, whose first novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the term “Generation X,” has designed his first furniture collection, which was launched during the Interior Design Show … Read more

The video above, shot and edited by Rob Lambert, captures the unique lifestyle that can be experienced, if even for just one night, at the landmark residence located at 2009 La Mesa Drive, Santa Monica (aka “The House of Rock“). The 11,000 sq ft home’s state-of-the-art recording studio, designed and curated in collaboration with a multi-Grammy winning … Read more

The Japanese restaurant that has had everyone raving from Malibu to Milan will now be serving luxurious accommodations alongside its signature dishes. Built into Caesar Palace’s Centurion Tower, The Nobu Hotel in Las Vegas took a leap from culinary to hospitality yesterday when it opened as the world’s first celebrity chef-inspired hotel. Present at Saturday’s … Read more

The Economist Intelligence Unit worldwide cost of living index 2013 has declared Tokyo, Japan the world’s most expensive city to live in, with Osaka, Japan the second costliest. Surprisingly, two Australian cities are among the top 5, with the country’s most populous city, Sydney, ranked third and Melbourne fifth after Norway’s capital, Oslo. Jon Copestake, … Read more