Elite Traveler July-August 2016

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We love… Lalique Géo Vase Swiss architect Mario Botta and luxury French lifestyle brand Lalique have created Géo Vase, a dazzling crystal collection distinguished by its geometry and transparency. Available in midnight blue, black and clear crystal, with each color limited to eight pieces. From $54,000, lalique.com

Design

Fine Dining

Created by the late architect Dame Zaha Hadid alongside Patrik Schumacher , Volu is a dining pavilion shaped like an open clamshell. Inside is a circular wooden dining table – a flat disk supported on a stump carved from a single piece of wood – and three curved benches that seat up to 10 diners. This fusion of design, engineering and manufacturing is supported by a steel stem at the back, which extends and flattens upwards to create the canopy. Its structure recreates principles found in nature. Volu is part of property developer architects and designers are invited to create living spaces. The likes of Ron Arad, Kengo Kuma, David Salle and Sou Fujimoto, have created limited-edition designs. $480,000, revolutionprecrafted.com Robbie Antonio’s Revolution project, where international

From left: Geneviève Page, 1957; Diana, Princess of Wales, 1995;

Paying tribute to the women who wore the creations of Dior, Women in Dior – Portraits of Elegance by Laurence Benaïm has pictures of Princess Grace of Monaco, Marion Cotillard, Rihanna and Eva Perón. Since 1947 women including princesses, socialites, first ladies and movie stars, have worn Dior during key moments in their lives. The book accompanies the exhibition Women in Dior – Sublime Elegance of a Portrait, which is at the Christian Dior Musuem, Granville, Normandy, until September 25. $45, available from rizzoliusa.com STYLE: WOMEN IN DIOR

HRH The Princess Margaret 1951

Words: Susie Moir. Photos: Keystone-France, Tim Graham for Getty Images, Rue des Archives AGIP