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Today, BMW announced the planned creation of a tech incubator in New York City to seed innovations in mobile and location-based services. The announcement follows the automaker's establishment in February of a venture capital company, BMW i Ventures, with an investment fund of as much as $100 million, and serves as yet another indication that BMW is turning its eye toward the mobile startup scene

In her humorous storytelling voice, Iyanla shared her viewpoint on the unique differences between Oprah and Iyanla. “There’s an exquisite place that Oprah has carved out for herself. She can go from holiday gift shopping to removing stains to interviewing Nelson Mandela! I may be good, but I ain't that good! How does she do that? Put me in a room with Nelson Mandela and I’d probably faint!

In the 1930s, Paris was the creative center of the avant-garde, and the Duchess of Windsor certainly captured the spirit of the times with an avant-garde idea of her own: She wanted a fully functioning zipper embellished with gemstones and diamonds, and she asked the French jeweler Van Cleef & ...

Some of the durable yet superlight materials that Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer uses to make its timepieces also can be found in the company’s new collection of sunglasses and frames. Priced from $890, the TAG Heuer Eyewear L-TYPE LW (www.tagheuer.com) is made from titanium, carbon fiber, and rubbery elastomer materials. ...

Milton Glaser, the legendary graphic designer best known for the "I Love New York" logo, says that it has to do with simplicity.

Not since 1645 has the Tibetan capital of Lhasa welcomed such a palatial retreat.

The crash of bowling pins is at first inaudible as you enter Daly’s Pub & Rec at Montage Deer Valley.

In 1970, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts founder Isadore Sharp opened his first property in Europe, the 227-room Inn on the Park in London. Later renamed Four Seasons London, the modern tower offered a less stuffy alternative to the city’s old-guard hotels. But after nearly 40 years, the Four Seasons ...

When Bill Lyon competes in vintage races, which he does on a fairly regular basis, he usually drives a Porsche—a 1957 356 Carrera, a 1960 RS 60, or a 1961 Carrera Abarth. But he plans to race in a different marque soon, a bright-red 1965 Alfa Romeo TZ2 that he ...

With the sweet scents from the adjacent sake brewery wafting through the air, Elizabeth Norris is busy selling, framing, and restoring intoxicating treats of a different kind. Covering the magnetic walls of her Vintage European Posters shop in Berkeley, Calif., are massive movie posters displaying vivid colors, conveying lots of ...

Photography by Lisa Charles Watson; Styling by Charles W. BumgardnerSome of the most creative jewelry designers are exploring a wilder side of the natural world, combining elements from rough lava rock to liquid freshwater pearl with more traditional precious metals and stones.

Debuting at the European boat shows this past fall was the Absolute Yachts Fly series (www.absoluteyachts.com), the first flybridge models from the 9-year-old Italian builder. The inaugural offerings are a 50-footer and a 43-footer (U.S. prices unavailable at press time), both of which can be configured with either a third ...

On October 1, 2009, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., a wrecking crew arrived at the gates of a Mediterranean palazzo with Gothic windows and a massive swallowtail battlement that would have been more appropriately perched on a promontory above the Grand Harbour in Malta than nestled on this suburban parcel. But ...

Craig Van Den Brulle, whose namesake gallery in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood carries furnishings by Gio Ponti, Robsjohn-Gibbings, and other design-world luminaries, has begun showcasing his own furniture collection, Delaunay (www.craigvandenbrulle.com). Van Den Brulle, who named his new line after a type of mathematical triangulation, uses computer design and laser soldering ...

Unadorned functionality has remained the guiding principle of modern German watch design ever since A. Lange & S