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OCTOBER 2026 · INTERNATIONAL EDITION
The Essence of Luxury in One Place
The luxury of
choosing well
Extraordinary residences. Meaningful journeys. A
perspective for those who value every choice.
LISBON · LONDON · PARIS · MEDITERRANEAN
LIFESTYLE · CULTURE · RESIDENCES · 81 PAGES
rinoproperties.com
LUXELIVING
RINO INVEST · SPAIN
Privacy.
Character. A
personal
choice.
SPAIN · PERSONAL ATTENTION
A home. Your way
of living.
Bellagio · Allure · Casa Cuiabá · Amra
Four residences to begin a conversation.
EXPLORE OUR SELECTION
Villa Allure · Actual photograph from the material supplied by the publisher.
RESIDENCES
OCTOBER 2026 / 02
LUXELIVING
05
07
10
Chanel
11
Brunello Cucinelli
12
14
15
Jack Armstrong
23
Villa Bellagio
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Vega Sicilia
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Jetluxe
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Patek Philippe
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33
Isadore Sharp
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Villa Allure
CONTENTS / OCTOBER 2026
October, with discernment
People who leave their mark
Four international journeys
Autumn, served slowly
Fronteira Palace
History, tiles and gardens
Mobility and the value of time
Designing private travel
The dress takes a new direction
Cabin, itinerary and flexibility
Craftsmanship and vision
Cubitus and its mechanism
Frieze and London
Preserving a remarkable piece
Art and a stay in Mayfair
Caring for a collection
The collector's discernment
Art: questions before choosing
65 years of hospitality
The art of choosing his own universe
Architecture to live in
A palatial presence
81 pages · The art of living and the discernment to enjoy it
OCTOBER 2026 / 03
LUXELIVING
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Sheila Johnson
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Casa Cuiabá
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Villa Amra
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50Steel · Art Basel · Ritz
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Bernard Arnault
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CONTENTS / OCTOBER 2026
The pleasure of choosing
Hermès and Prada 2027
Alba and Leña Dubai
Silhouette and new proportions
Flavours for an October journey
Marrakech and Krug
Intimacy, dining and culture
Mediterranean serenity
A purposeful wine cellar
Yachting and Paris
Provenance, storage and occasion
Another way to welcome
Growing without losing identity
Louis Vuitton and Alhambra
Architecture and the horizon
Style reveals itself in the details
Rolls-Royce and Ferrari
Residences and contact
Design, character and comfort
Selection and international portfolio
Kyoto · Dior · Prada
Editorial and next edition
The pause and the dress
Our perspective and your subscription
81 pages · The art of living and the discernment to enjoy it
OCTOBER 2026 / 04
Brunello Cucinelli
Isadore Sharp
Sheila Johnson
Bernard Arnault
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THE OCTOBER PERSPECTIVE
People who
leave their mark
Four stories that explore luxury from within.
Behind a fashion house, a hotel or an outstanding collection are human decisions. In this
edition we meet those who turned an idea into a distinctive experience. Their journeys
connect craftsmanship, hospitality, culture and strategy.
Luxury begins in the hands
The greatness of making people feel welcome
Success can also reinvent itself
Growing without losing identity
Profiles researched using official public sources. Editorial interpretation accompanies the facts; these texts are not interviews
conducted by LuxeLiving.
OCTOBER 2026 / 05
10 OCT →
14–18 OCT
15–25 OCT
23–25 OCT
LUXELIVING
CALENDAR · OCTOBER 2026
October, with purpose
A cultural and culinary selection based on information published as of 1 October 2026.
ALBA / ITALY
White truffle market: weekends until 6 December.
LONDON / UNITED KINGDOM
Frieze London and Masters. Public access from the 15th; invitation only on the 14th.
LISBON / PORTUGAL
DocLisboa: documentary film as another way to discover the city.
PARIS / FRANCE
Art Basel Paris: public days at the Grand Palais.
OCTOBER 2026 / 06
Fronteira
LUXELIVING
HERITAGE
LISBON / PORTUGAL
A palace with the
heartbeat of a home
The Palace of the Marquesses of Fronteira brings together seventeenth-century
architecture, tiles and gardens in a residence that retains its connection to the family
who made it possible.
Photograph: Kent Wang / CC BY 4.0. Editorial framing.
OCTOBER 2026 / 07
LUXELIVING
HERITAGE
From summer retreat
to family residence
Imagine arriving through the garden to understand the
intention behind this house. Before entering, the
landscape guides the eye: water, greenery, stone and
a façade that invites you to pause. Its scale reveals
something that great residences share: the exterior
prepares the experience of the interior.
The original palace was built around 1670 at the
initiative of João de Mascarenhas and Madalena de
Castro. Conceived as a summer residence, it
received tile decoration that remains part of its walls.
After the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, the family
moved their main residence here and enlarged the
complex.
Fronteira and its gardens. Kent Wang / CC BY 4.0.
A house can also be a way
of remembering.
Its designation as a National Monument, recorded in 1982, protects an ensemble whose
artistic value extends to the gardens, fountains and ornamentation. The architecture
combines a central two-storey building with lateral wings; tiles, stucco and marble turn its
spaces into narrative surfaces. This material continuity explains why a visit can be read as
a journey through layers of time.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
OCTOBER 2026 / 08
LUXELIVING
HERITAGE
THE GARDEN AS A STORY
The detail that endures
In the Hall of Battles, the galleries and the garden, the palace shows how a residence transforms decoration
into memory. Interior visits are guided; walking through the gardens offers another way to approach the
ensemble.
We suggest allowing time for both experiences. Looking closely at a tile, pausing beside a fountain and
returning to the façade changes the visit: the house moves beyond an image and begins to reveal its
relationships.
Fronteira inspires a question that runs through this edition: what makes a place remain singular? The answer
may lie in preservation, proportion and the life that continues within it.
Photograph: Kent Wang / CC BY 4.0. Fronteira Palace garden; editorial crop.
OCTOBER 2026 / 09
CHANEL
LUXELIVING
FASHION · CHANEL
AUTUMN-WINTER 2026
The dress takes a
new direction
Matthieu Blazy's collection explores
metamorphosis through essentials, textile
experimentation and contrast. The
recreated dress brings together flowers,
colour and a silhouette in motion; the
fabric detail invites us to see the motif as
surface craftsmanship as well as a print.
Our interpretation for October: choose
an expressive piece and give it room
within the outfit. A floral design can work
for dinner with a clean-lined coat and a
restrained accessory. The interest lies in
the relationship between structure and
lightness, day and night.
The collection also revisits tailoring and
proportions. This page highlights a
specific autumn-winter 2026 look; the
QR opens the official looks to compare
dresses and details. Choosing a size and
checking how the garment falls on the
body completes what a photograph
begins.
LuxeLiving · The editorial perspective
Explore the actual garments on the
maison's website.
OFFICIAL COLLECTION
OCTOBER 2026 / 10
Brunello Cucinelli
1978
LUXELIVING
PEOPLE WHO LEAVE THEIR MARK
ITALY · CRAFTSMANSHIP AND VISION
Luxury begins in the hands
Our reading of this career is that consistency can also
be worn. A garment's value begins in its fabric but
continues in the relationship between the person who
imagines it, the person who makes it and the person
who keeps it. Exclusivity becomes more interesting
when it has a story to tell.
Before the international shop windows came a precise
decision: to bring colour to women's cashmere.
Recalling the company's origins, Brunello Cucinelli
describes ordering enough yarn for around sixty
garments and persuading a specialist to dye six
sweaters in six shades. The company began in 1978.
His first ambition had the scale of a good idea and the
challenge of earning someone's trust.
For LuxeLiving's reader, this biography invites a
different approach to the wardrobe: feel the fabric,
ask about care and choose pieces that retain their
meaning beyond the season. The pleasure of luxury
can lie in recognising a skilled hand.
The first customers contributed more than orders.
Cucinelli describes how commercial relationships and
prompt payments helped him progress when
resources were scarce. Behind that growth stands a
network of people: the supplier who allows time, the
artisan willing to experiment and the buyer who
recognises a difference.
Solomeo later became the centre of his project. The
entrepreneur linked the restoration of the village and
castle to a way of working in which the surroundings,
craftsmanship and human dignity form part of the
company's identity.
Craft turns a garment into
something worth keeping.
An idea: bringing colour to cashmere
CONTINUE THE STORY · OFFICIAL WEBSITE
OCTOBER 2026 / 11
LUXELIVING
CALENDAR · ART
London, a city to see
anew
Frieze London and Frieze Masters · 14–18 October 2026
October offers a cultural reason to return to London.
Frieze London and Frieze Masters take place in
Regent's Park from the 14th to the 18th; the 14th is the
invitation-only opening, and public days begin on the
15th. Two neighbouring fairs allow visitors to move from
contemporary art to works from other periods without
losing the thread of the conversation.
Our suggestion: reserve a morning for each fair and a
third to revisit whatever truly caught your eye. Before
buying a work, request its details, provenance and
delivery terms; a precise conversation with the gallery
is part of the experience. Complete the journey with a
stay in Mayfair, an unhurried meal and a walk without
an agenda. Visiting fewer rooms and remembering
more works may be the finest measure of the weekend.
EXPLORE THE STORY
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
OCTOBER 2026 / 12
LUXELIVING
STAYS · UNITED KINGDOM
Claridge's
The setting for London
Mayfair, service and an itinerary that leaves room to rest.
Choosing a hotel for a cultural journey also means
choosing how each day begins and ends. Claridge's
places the escape in Mayfair, with an identity
connecting British hospitality, design and the attention
of its team. Its official website includes an offer linked to
Frieze: a particularly relevant connection this October.
Our selection considers details with real
consequences: a peaceful room, space to work,
breakfast before a morning at the fair and
well-coordinated transfers. A higher category is
valuable when it suits the journey we want to make. We
suggest three nights and no more than two
commitments a day. An early dinner, time to dress and
a free afternoon give the hotel a place of its own in the
memory. Check the offer's terms and your chosen
category directly.
EXPLORE THE STORY
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
OCTOBER 2026 / 13
LUXELIVING
THE LUXELIVING NOTEBOOK / ART
Collecting begins with a
good question
The eye, the provenance and the future life of a work.
A work of art can transform a room; a collection can
transform a way of seeing. Before seeking a
celebrated name, define what interests you: a
period, a technique, a conversation between artists
or a relationship with where you live. That thread
helps you recognise an opportunity without making
every purchase an exception.
The aesthetic question
What does this work add to your existing collection? A
convincing acquisition creates a relationship between
pieces; it need not fill an empty wall.
The material question
Request detailed images and explanations of
restoration, support and conservation. Decide what
you need to inspect in person or with an independent
specialist.
Sotheby's guide distinguishes the pre-sale estimate
from the final amount and notes that commissions
and other applicable charges may be added. It also
encourages examining lots and reviewing condition
information. Provenance can provide context,
although the published history does not always
identify every previous owner.
The practical question
Before setting your limit, include acquisition, packing,
transport, installation and conservation. Bidding and
the experience of owning a work are different
moments.
We suggest keeping the details, available condition
report, provenance documentation and complete
acquisition and transport budget in one folder. Then
return to the work. If its appeal depends entirely on
what others say about it, perhaps a personal reason
to live with it has yet to emerge.
The most refined gesture is knowing why we want to live with a work of art.
READ FURTHER · Sotheby's · Buyer's guide
OCTOBER 2026 / 14
LUXELIVING
JACK
ARMSTRONG
ART · JACK ARMSTRONG
The art of choosing
his own universe
Jack Armstrong with his Cosmic Cowboy Boots and paintings. Archive published on his official website.
Some artists are recognisable before we read their signature. For Armstrong, colour, presence and
conviction form a single language. LuxeLiving explores it through the work, personal decisions and
the encounter with the viewer.
A LUXELIVING FEATURE · EIGHT PAGES TO LOOK ANEW
OCTOBER 2026 / 15
LUXELIVING
ART · JACK ARMSTRONG
Choosing his own path
Independence as a decision sustained over time.
His official biography places his arrival in New
York in 1979 and records his relationships with
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith
Haring. Armstrong says he chose to build a career
without gallery representation. This is the artist's
account of the origins of his independence.
Ellen Sterling's 2010 article in Bel-Air Magazine
shows him beside architect Narendra Patel and
describes his paintings in the architect's
surroundings. The image adds an intimate
dimension: art also circulates through personal
relationships and lived-in spaces.
That decision offers a question through which to
read his career: what is a creator willing to protect
when their work begins to circulate? For
LuxeLiving, autonomy becomes interesting when
it takes shape as a recognisable way of seeing,
choosing materials and maintaining a voice.
Here Armstrong appears approachable, with his
paintings behind him and another person beside
him. That human scale brings us closer to a
career whose public image is often monumental.
A creator can also be recognised in the
encounters that accompany their work.
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Narendra Patel and Jack Armstrong.
Archive photograph: Bel-Air Magazine, 2010; published as material supplied by the artist.
LUXELIVING
ART · JACK ARMSTRONG
A painting that
asks for time
Two works, two rhythms. A visual reading by LuxeLiving.
In Cosmic X #1, yellow opens paths through areas
of red, black and green. The image offers no single
centre: it invites us to follow a curve, pause at a
contrast and begin again. Seen as a whole, the
painting retains its character as a surface in
motion.
Cosmic Final Magic offers a different intensity.
Golden tones, light areas and red marks create a
denser network. The contrast with the 1999 work
reveals how much atmosphere can change within a
shared vocabulary.
This comparison is an editorial interpretation.
Reproduction shows relationships of colour and
composition; texture, scale and the true response
to light are discovered before the original.
The reading can begin with a simple gesture:
choose a line and notice where following it
becomes difficult. The eye participates in shaping
the experience.
OCTOBER 2026 / 17
Cosmic X #1, 1999. Acrylic on canvas.
Cosmic Final Magic, 2008. Acrylic on canvas.
LUXELIVING
ART · JACK ARMSTRONG
When painting
meets the body
The programme for the Cosmic Firebird Dance
Concert documents a performance on 2 April 2011
at the Rose Center Theater, with 110 dancers
announced. The painting became linked to a shared
experience on stage.
Our reading focuses on the transition: a painted
rhythm can suggest an entrance, a pause or a
movement. In the reproduced work, reds and
yellows establish a tension that the eye follows as a
sequence. Dance offers another way to inhabit it.
This episode broadens Armstrong's story: a
painting can become a meeting point between
disciplines.
A WORK CAN CONTINUE THROUGH THE MOVEMENT OF OTHERS.
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Cosmic Firebird, 2005.
Archive reproduction of the artist's work published in Bel-Air Magazine.
LUXELIVING
ART · JACK ARMSTRONG
The universe
remains open
Armstrong presents Cosmic X Paradigm
as his last and most complex Cosmic X
painting. The work also featured in a
SOL Luxury Magazine publication
shared on his website in 2026.
In this reproduction, red dominates
while golden forms seem to gather
around a luminous area. A sense of
expansion coexists with an inward
focus: the eye approaches and moves
out again.
The interest lies in that oscillation. A
painting can offer immediate energy
while retaining a place to return to.
Our reading gives its forms no fixed
meanings: it leaves each viewer to
build their own relationship.
Cosmic X Paradigm, 2019. Acrylic on canvas.
Looking means accepting that an
image can still surprise us.
OCTOBER 2026 / 19
LUXELIVING
ART · JACK ARMSTRONG
Art changes its
setting
Moonstone. Visual archive from the artist's official website.
Times Square: archive image of the digital project.
The Moonstone bag has a material presence very
different from canvas: stitching, metal, leather
and a central stone organise its appearance. Its
form allows art to be read at a scale close to the
body.
The Life of Luxury documents Cosmic X images on
Ripley's screen in Times Square between 2018
and 2020. The photograph places the project
within the cityscape.
Here contrast matters more than classification. An
object invites us to imagine touch and use; an
urban screen asks us to recognise an image amid
movement. These are two ways to bring a visual
language into everyday life.
The screen introduces another viewing time: a
brief appearance, a different light, a passing
audience. For LuxeLiving, this shift raises a fertile
question: how to preserve an identity when the
work leaves the silence of a wall and enters
shared space.
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