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CAPITAL
THERE IS A MOMENT, somewhere off the granite shoulders of the Costa Smeralda, when a watch stops mattering. Not because time has stopped, but because, for the first time in longer than you can remember, no one is measuring it against you.This is the secret the yachting world has alw...
By Ferruccio Rossi
Talk Of The Rock
EVERY CITY OF REFINED TASTE once had its Grand Hotel. Yet few realize that this very concept took shape in the Principality of Monaco in 1881. It was then that Alexandrine Yungbluth, owner of the Grand Hôtel de Monte-Carlo, spotted a visionary named César Ritz at Lucerne's Grand Hôt...
By Vincent and Nicolas Poylo
GASTRONOMY
THERE IS A PRECISE MOMENT during a lunch on the Riviera when the theater of the Mediterranean ceases to be a backdrop and becomes the main event. At La Vigie Zanoni, suspended over the rocky shoreline at the far tip of the Monte-Carlo Beach peninsula, that moment arrives somewhere...
By Luiz F. Costa Macambira
Talk Of The Rock
WHEN I FIRST BEGAN imagining my own catamaran, I knew almost nothing about naval architecture.Looking back, I believe that may have been one of my greatest advantages. I was not trying to improve an existing boat. I was simply trying to create the yacht I would have wanted to find m...
By Francis Lapp
Talk Of The Rock
THE PAST FEW YEARS have been defined by heightened geopolitical volatility, shifting economic alliances, and fluctuating financial markets. While markets are proving to be resilient, changes to global trade patterns, exchange rates, and the cost of raw materials are having a very re...
By Albert Henriques
Talk Of The Rock
IN APRIL 1956, the American actress Grace Kelly married the prince of a faraway country in a fairy-tale wedding - not just once but twice. It’s public knowledge that Grace wed Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a traditional civil ceremony on one day and then in an epic, highly-publici...
By Annette Anderson
SIGNALS
FOR DECADES, the yacht industry has been defined by questions such as: How much more can we add? More teak. More marble. More crew polishing that marble. We measured success in square meters and the beauty of precious metals. We were building highly designed areas that required teams to maintain, and we called it luxury.That era might be over. Not because we have run out of marble but because we have started asking better questions. The shift began with a conversation about cre...
By Paris Baloumis
JOURNEYS
THERE ARE HOTELS, and then there are addresses that seem to hold a city's entire history in their façade. The Peninsula Istanbul belongs unmistakably to the latter category. Housed in a former passenger ferry terminal on the Bosphorus waterfront, it occupies one of the rare places o...
By Luiz F. Costa Macambira
Arts
WE STAND AT A QUIET but decisive inflection point in the art market. The old certainties—trophy hunting at auction, the relentless chase of the next blue-chip name, the treatment of paintings as interchangeable financial instruments—are yielding to something more enduring.What is em...
By Karolina Blasiak
L'Art De Vivre
THERE ARE JOURNEYS one takes for reasons one cannot entirely explain—a name encountered in passing, a recommendation over dinner by someone whose taste you have learned to trust implicitly. My visit to the Todolí Citrus Fundació, in the Palmera village, a quiet corner set amid the V...
By H.R.H. Prince Michel of Yugoslavia
CAPITAL
FOR MOST of the last century, being wealthy meant accumulating things that photographed well: real estate, art, aircraft, yachts. Monaco has plenty of all of it, and none of that is going away. But talk to the people who actually manage these fortunes—not the ones who spend them—and...
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Antonio Salvatore - A Food Editor for The Monegasque™ , covering culinary art and food trends, Michelin-starred chef Antonio Salvatore was born in Basilicata, Italy, and has traveled extensively, honing his craft in Spain, England, and Russia. Now based in Monaco, he serves refined contemporary Italian cuisine at Rampoldi’s exclusive five-table setting, using top-quality ingredients from Menton, San Remo, and Southern Italy. His signature dishes include bottoni di vitello tonnato, cabri dodici ore, and texture di cioccolato, while at the brasserie, he reimagines classic dishes with a modern twist.
MONACO
Perched above the Mediterranean with its iconic Eiffel dome and Belle Epoque façade, the Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo has long defined the Principality's refined hospitality. Built upon a legacy stretching back to 1928, the palace recently unveiled the latest chapter in an ongoing revitalization program initiated in 2024 by Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer. At the heart of this evolution are the newly reimagined "Appartements de l’Hermitage." Twenty-two years after their inception, the Diamo...
By Luiz F. Costa Macambira
SIGNALS
THERE IS A PARTICULAR species of British firm whose survival across two centuries owes less to any single triumph than to a kind of institutional restlessness—an inability to sit still, to specialize too narrowly, to be satisfied. Napier is that firm. It has made banknote presses and bullet machines, taxicabs and torpedo boats, the fastest cars on Earth and the engines that carried them there, jet-age turboprops and diesel aircraft engines decades before either seemed a sensible...
By H.I.R.H. Archduke Carl Christian of Austria
CAPITAL
How the last independent jewelry house in France was built.SOME HOUSES stand the test of time. Few continue to shape history in the present tense. For more than four centuries, Mellerio has embodied a unique blend of heritage, creativity and excellence—the very qualities that have defined Europe's great dynasties.The story begins in 1515. Following King Francois Ier's annexation of the Duchy of Milan, the Mellerio family, like many Italian artists and craftsmen of the time, left...
By Laure-Isabelle Mellerio
Inner Circles
THE SILVER SPOON. The timeless phrase instantly conjures images of effortless privilege, where even the most ordinary moments shimmer with inherited luxury. Yet it hints at something deeper: a world where precious metals like silver, gold, copper, and their alloys didn't just signal status but quietly protected and enhanced life itself.Long before modern medicine, these noble elements stood as natural guardians of health and vitality. In our plastic-filled age, rediscovering the...
By Helga Piaget
L'Art De Vivre
His wife, photographer Marie Jordan, reflects on a life lived between harbors.PEOPLE WHO KNEW EDDIE always asked the same thing. How did a man with that much energy, who couldn't sit still through a meal, ever find peace on a boat?He didn't, is the honest answer. He never went for peace. He went for the freedom of it. The open water gave him as much room as he wanted, and Eddie wanted a great deal of room.He'd spent his whole life in the noise of motor racing, cameras in his fac...
By Marie Jordan
SIGNALS
Entering its eleventh year, the brokerage is turning its attention to how technology can make yacht ownership work better—while keeping the business itself decidedly personal.ELEVEN YEARS IS ENOUGH TIME in yachting to see a charter client become an owner, an owner become a builder and a yacht change hands more than once. It is also enough time to learn which parts of the business could work better.Nick Gelevert has had longer than most to consider it. The founder and CEO of Boat...
CAPITAL
DUBAI’S POPULATION has grown from 3.3 million in 2020 to over 3.7 million today. By 2030, projections point toward five million. For the investors who got there early, the arithmetic has been generous. For those arriving now, the question is no longer whether Dubai works, it is whether you have the right entry point. Monaco’s investor class has been quietly rotating into Gulf real estate for several years, drawn by yield differentials that European markets cannot approach and b...
By Alexander Agafiev
WELLBEING
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that money cannot buy its way out of - the exhaustion of a life lived entirely in performance mode. For those who spend decades analyzing the trajectories of high-achievers, a striking pattern emerges: the individuals who have truly arrived are rarely the ones still running. Instead, they are the ones who have learned, deliberately and expensively, how to stop. This is the quiet revolution now underway among Monaco's ultra-high-net-worth residents. The...
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Louis Ducruet is the son of Princess Stéphanie and Daniel Ducruet. He excelled as an international recruiter for AS Monaco and advisor for Nottingham Forest. As president of the Barbagiuans Monaco ass...
The Hinduja family has earned a prominent place on both the Forbes World’s Billionaires list and the ranking of India’s Richest families. As a senior member of the Hinduja Group, Hinduja S.P. Shanu i...
Former chemical engineer James Ratcliffe is the founder, chairman and majority owner of chemical powerhouse Ineos Group. The London-based conglomerate produces everything from synthetic oils and plast...
Stefano Pessina heads the world's largest drugstore chain, Walgreens Boots Alliance. Pessina bought over 1,500 rival companies across Europe, merged his UniChem Group with Alliance Boots and took it p...
