PROPERTY NEWS May 19, 2011 SHOREDITCH GOES AVANT-GARDE Telford Homes have just launched a new cutting edge residential development in Shoreditch. It has been designed by architect Stock Woolstencroft to include a communal “Free Spirit Garden.” Prices start at £250,000. BOUTIQUE ESTATE AGENT TO OPEN IN BELGRAVIA Quintessentially Estates plan to open a boutique estate agency in Belgravia. It is [...]
INTRODUCING: MOTOROLA XOOM May 18, 2011 COULDN’T you just look at it all day? The MOTOROLA XOOM™, the world’s first Android 3.0 tablet has landed in SELFRIDGES London and already the excitement is palpable among tablet fans. Motorola XOOM is fresh from winning the coveted “Best of Consumer Electronics” 2011 award and comes packed with features. It’s strong, fast and features [...]
ACCESSORISE YOUR XOOM May 18, 2011 HEADPHONES What better (or more stylish) way to rock out to your favourite Motorola XOOM tunes? Urban Ears, £55 PREMIUM FOLIO CASE A chic accessory, for a chic gadget. The case also allows you to position the XOOM at two different angles. Motorola, £29.99 SPEAKER DOCK This fabulous multi-tasking gadget is a dock stand, speaker, [...]
Five fabulous roof terraces May 18, 2011 NOTHING spells summer in the city better than an ice cold cocktail sipped at leisure from a roof terrace. The warm breeze, the open spaces and skyline views make for an alluring combination as the temperature rises. (Not to mention the feeling of calm and distance they offer from the hustle and bustle on the [...]
OUT OF OFFICE May 18, 2011 MOUNT STREET CELEBRATES It’s party time in Mayfair’s Mount Street this evening as the oh-so-swish stretch of luxury boutiques and restaurants celebrates the 325th anniversary of the original “May Fayre” – the event from which the area gets its name. Mount Street’s resident businesses will also no doubt be raising glasses to the end of [...]
LinkedIn sparks tech bubble fear May 17, 2011 SOCIAL network website LinkedIn last night hiked the projected price of its stock market float, sparking fears of a tech bubble amongst observers. The business-orientated competitor to Facebook raised the range of its initial public offering by $10 from $32-$35 per share to $42-$45 per share. It now expects to raise as much as $406m [...]
Kylie’s favourite luxe eco-mobile May 17, 2011 The Lexus CT200h will probably be familiar to you whether you’re a Kylie fan or not. It’s the hybrid car she’s been driving since February – on TV at least – and it’s the smallest car that Lexus has made. Lexus is the Japanese answer to BMW or Audi and it has stolen a march [...]
CAR TALK May 17, 2011 RENAULT’S ELECTRIC CAR A HIT WITH HOLLYWOOD. If you doubt whether electric cars are glamorous just take a look at the cars Hollywood’s A-listers are being ferried around Cannes in. Fully-electric (and silent) Renault Fluence Z.E models are busy chauffeuring actors and industry bigwigs around the red carpets of Cannes, despite the fact that the [...]
Lights, Camera: Beauty! May 16, 2011 RED carpet beauty is different to the catwalks. It’s not about being edgy. Our brief is simple: Actresses just want to look as gorgeous as possible,” says celebrity makeup artist Emma Day, known for working with Sienna Miller, Keira Knightly and Lily Allen, among others. “We pull out all the tricks so that people go: [...]
Episode 12: Unfamiliar as I am with this May 16, 2011 Within two minutes of Sir Roderick hanging up I’d had Rupert Carmichael on the telephone. “I’m sure you’ve heard dear boy. And I know I really ought to have been the first to tell you. You must think me terribly rude. I’m afraid that, in the end, they simply wanted a bigger man. Of course, [...]