Travel & Leisure

A new restaurant and Chef at Casa Cavia in Buenos Aires

Casa Cavia is an original and prestigious cultural destination in Argentina and Buenos Aires. This place offers a cozy restaurant with a large kitchen by design firm Kallos Turin, but also a publishing house, a library, a bar and a flower shop. Today, the place welcomes a new Chef, Julieta Caruso, offering new conceptual menu inspired by classic books and writers from all around the world so, each dish can count a story. Moreover, the drinks and wine lists are based on famous author's favorite beverages.

Armani/Casa just opened its largest store in Milan

If you're looking for some sophisticated ideas to design your room, bathroom or living-room, go straight to Armani/Casa new store located on prestigious Corso Venezia in Milan. Looking like a genuine design studio with high ceilings and metal mesh, the boutique features the most recent pieces of latest collections between lighting, accessories, furnishings, wallpapers, fabrics, limited editions, kitchens, baths and textiles. The perfect place to get a trendy Logo lamp, a Jazz bar cabinet or a Danzica low table.

Audemars Piguet new museum is being built step by step

The original museum settled in Audemars' family historical home is welcoming the "Maison des Fondateurs" (Founders house), a futuristic spiral carried by curved glass walls, imagined by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels. On March 30th 2017, the first foundation stone was laid in Brassus, hometown of the watch manufacturer hidden at the heart of Vallée de Joux. Jasmine Audemars (Executive Board President), Olivier Audermars (Executive Board Vice-President) and François-Henry Bennahmias (Audemars Piguet CEO) were present alongside with BIG Danish architecture studio and Canton de Vaud authorities. The next step will be the the laying of the curved glass walls which unit weight is bigger than two tonnes !

Atelier Lafont new workshop in Paris

The authentic Parisian eyewear Atelier Lafont is opening a workshop where clients can design custom glasses with handmade materials and artful frames. Starting at 550€, you can create your dreamed pair of glasses in this lovely shop from rue Vignon, close to famous Madeleine Church. Options feature classic round shapes, oval ones, cat-eyes, trapezes but also stainless steel material, rich buffalo horn (exclusivity) and acetate.