I-MAGAZINE has teamed up with eyewear manufacturer Taylor Morris to give away three pairs or Raleigh sunglasses, in order to enter, answer the following question and send the answer to info@imagazineuk.com. Question – ”Which British Monarch granted Walter Raleigh his royal charter in the 16th century”. It would help your chances if you also followed…
Read MoreBy Baroness Greengross, For many years I have been heavily engaged in the lifetime learning debate, but the impact of longevity and technology on employment, particularly of older people, means that we must make a renewed effort to shine some light on this neglected issue. Increasing longevity is a global phenomenon that, rather than being…
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I-MAGAZINE has team up with Tateossian to give three of our readers a bracelet from their collection, to enter, email info@imagazineuk.com with ‘Tateossian’ in the subject field, for browny points, follow @IMAGAZINE_UK on Twitter. About Tateossian Tateossian London was founded by Robert Tateossian in 1990 with the aspiration ofoffering men and women a distinctive way…
Read MoreI’ve pursued it around the world. There’s an alchemy about brick – about all building materials made from fired clay – where the elements of earth and water are transformed by fire into a material that can be more durable than stone. Through fire, a soft, ephemeral and ‘base’ material – mud – is transmuted…
Read MoreYou have been quickly rising to prominence in the Middle East – what has the journey been from prestigious London education to designing hotels and private residences worldwide? I set up ANARCHITECT in Dubai five years ago, following a career at both boutiqueand design-led corporate architectural practices in London and my studies atthe renowned Bartlett…
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I-MAGAZINE has teamed up with Christopher Ward to give away a C3 Morgan Chronograph, worth £450. To enter, email info@imagazineuk.com with ‘Christopher Ward’, in the subject heading, extra points for following @IMAGAZINE_UK on Twitter, simple. On 9thAugust 2018, Christopher Ward and Morgan Motor Company unveiled the latest time piece in their unique partnership, the C3…
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Premium British watch brand, Christopher Ward, launches its slimmest watch to date, the C5 Malvern 595. The new ultra-slim mechanical watch will sit within the brand’s Malvern collection, a range that is renowned for its quality, remarkable value and quintessentially English design values. Over recent years there has been a growing consumer demand for slim…
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of an aircraft both brilliant and beautiful, Bremont launches its eighth historical limited edition timepiece, the Bremont Supersonic, incorporating parts of one of the most famous and iconic planes in history – Concorde. Ahead of her time in more ways than one, Concorde flew faster than a rifle bullet and…
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Iran Modern, The Empress of Art. Foreword by HIH Empress Farah Pahlavi Text by Viola Raikhel-Bolot and Miranda Darling During her reign as the rst crowned Empress in Iranian history, Empress Farah Pahlavi dedicated her life to serving the Iranian people, creating and curating museums and festivals across the country. With a keen eye—and working…
Read MoreDutch fund manager Pim van Vliet has recently published, together with investment specialist Jan de Koning, a new book on the merits of investing in so-called ‘low risk’ stocks (High Returns from Low Risk: A Remarkable Stock Market Paradox). Van Vliet, who manages 18 billion Euros in low-risk equities at Rotterdam based Robeco, claims that…
Read MoreBy Campbell Macpherson, author of The Change Catalyst: Secrets to Successful and Sustainable Business Change. Change has never been more prevalent or more relevant than it is today. Voters across the globe are voting for change, any change; seemingly at any cost. Entire industries have been disrupted and transformed by globalisation and a new breed…
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According to the Office of National Statistics, Londoners work 100 hours a year more than the rest of the country. This wouldn’t be a bad thing if we all liked our work. But when the psychologist Daniel Kahneman researched how happy we feel by asking hundreds of employees to capture their experience during each day,…
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There is no doubt that the quality of our decisions impacts practically every aspect of our lives. Professionally, it is arguably the factor that makes the greatest difference to the level of success that we will achieve, because it determines how well every other talent or capability we have can be applied. Our proficiency in…
Read MoreBy Alan Weiss, co-author of Lifestorming: Creating Meaning and Achievement in Your Career and Life. One of the greatest expenses for organizations is, of course, people. And one of the greatest people expenses is absenteeism. And, in my 30 years of consulting, I’ve found that one of the greatest causes of absenteeism is stress. And…
Read MoreHeld under the patronage of HH Sheikha Latifa Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Dubai Design Week is the largest creative festival in the Middle East, reflecting Dubai’s position as the regional capital of design. The six-day programme is made up of +200…
Read MoreWhat made you get into broadcast journalism? I’d been a newspaper journalist for about a decade and I’d started doing bits of telly on the side, commentating on politics mainly. The more I did the more fun I had, and when Channel 4 News came knocking it occurred to me I could combine what I…
Read MoreThere are typically two poles of conservative thought regarding civilisation, best characterised as deteminist (Spengler) and non-determinist (A J Toynbee), where do you reckon Burke sits on that spectrum? Historically there has been a tension here. On the one hand you have people who regard civilisation in the manner of Katherine Hepburn in The African…
Read MoreA little over a year ago Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair of the Arts Council, made an important plea for fair funding of diversity in the arts. I believe he is right and my experience as Chair of the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal tends to confirm it. Until we unveiled the statue of Mary Seacole…
Read MoreWhen I was in my late 20s, I worked with a lady who had recently retired. Virginia (as I will call her) volunteered a few days each week at the public-service organization where I worked. One day, as we were assembling materials for a direct-mail publicity campaign, we began to talk about money. I will…
Read MoreBetween 1947 and 2007 Eileen Ford created the largest and longest lasting model agency the world has ever seen, famed for its blonde and slinky beauties whose thighs would stretch for miles. If you booked a Ford model, you got Ferrari and Porsche glamour—with Rolls-Royce prestige and prices: Jerry Hall, Lauren Hutton, Christie Brinkley, Christie…
Read MoreEntrepreneur Jim Thompson founded Crown Worldwide in 1965 with an initial investment of just 1,000 USD and took it to a turnover of 840m USD in 50 years. Launched in Yokohama, Japan, it is now one of the world’s largest privately-owned companies in the field of international logistics and related services with 265 offices in…
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To understand this, it helps to know the origins of the Kurdish people and some recent history in Turkey, Syria and nearby. The Kurds are an ancient national and cultural group, not Arab and not Turkish. They claim descent from the Medes, who were well-known to the classical Greeks and Israelites as allies of the…
Read MoreFree Speech? In 1791, the Congress of the United States ratified ten amendments to the US constitution. These amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, stand today as a clear definition of the foundations of a free society. In the long history of the slow development of human rights, from Magna Carta in 1215, through…
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I-MAGAZINE speaks to the Head Chef at city of London restaurant Hutong.
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Our population is getting older. In the next 10 years the number of people aged between 50 and State Pension age will rise by 3.2 million, while the numbers aged 16 to 49 will fall – and amazingly, one in three babies born today is expected to live to 100.
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IMAGAZINE is a business and politics laced magazine with lifestyle and culture content. The editorial relies strongly on in depth interviews with the leaders of the business and political scenes. From David Milliband to Baroness de Rothschild, I-MAGAZINE reveals their personal view and the journeys that have taken them to where they are, often revealing…
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Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing (leading), and letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning[1]).
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By Lord Watson of Richmond, Winston Churchill wrote his history of the First World War between 1923 and 1931. After the first volume appeared in 1923 Nancy Astor commented caustically that Winston had written a great volume about himself and characterised it as the history of the World’s worst crisis. She was, of course, unfair.
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She is Switzerland’s most powerful lady banker, Baroness Arriane De Rothschild occupies the second highest position in the Edmond De Rothschild group. I-MAGAZINE decided to get to know her better.
Read MoreThe Ramifications of Churchill – I have written a number of books over the years but never has one excited me as much as the one I have recently completed.
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By Jeremy Paxman, author of ‘Empire’. London can claim a fairly impressive range of buildings and institutions, but for me one tower’s over all the rest – The London Library in St James’s Square. Years ago, I used to go to the old circular reading room of the British Library, imagining that if I stayed…
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Fawaz Gruosi, President, owner and founder of De Grisogono is one of the world’s most sought-after jewellers and watch makers and we had the unique chance to meet this distinctive talent during his first trip back to his paternal country in many years.
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For a few short years in the mid-1980s, when the pockets of New York’s broad-suited investors swilled with Reagan-era money, one item of clothing defined the luxurious moment above all others: the pouf dress.
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Could you have ever guessed that your school, Middle School, was so old?
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You’re preparing to go on a road-trip to San Diego or Las Vegas from Phoenix, you get moving along the highway, then between Yuma and Calexico, you blow a tire.
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