Welcome To This Week In Edition — June 22, 2026
Aman reveals its first Bahamas property — 400 acres across two private cays in Exuma, designed by Jacobsen Studio with interiors by Yabu Pushelberg, developed alongside Dona Bertarelli. Audi shows the Nuvolari at Monaco — 499 examples, a twin-turbo V8 paired with three electric motors, and the clearest signal yet of where the brand intends to position itself as it enters Formula One. Elie Saab steps into aviation for the first time with a bespoke Global 8000 interior for Bombardier — birds-in-flight motifs, a main lounge, and the latest move in a brand that has been quietly expanding across residences, hospitality, yachting, and now the air. And on the Inner Mongolian steppe, Prairie Ark opens on the shore of Lake Laoli — a gallery that buried its roof into the earth, put visitors on top of the building, and refused every nomadic reference the landscape offered. Restraint. Precision. Refusal of the obvious. It runs through everything this week.
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Nicholas Meimaris – Editor in Chief
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This Week at a Glance – June 22, 2026
Formula One (@f1) becomes luxury’s most visible stage
Alexander Zverev (@alexzverev123) finally breaks through
@avenueny returns above Manhattan
Prairie Ark lands on the Inner Mongolian steppe
@audi signals a new era with the Nuvolari
@zegna transforms Malibu into an Italian summer
Elie Saab (@eliesaabworld) expands into private aviation
@tagheuer reimagines the Monaco
Mandarin Oriental (@mo_hotels) makes its Mallorca debut
@jacobson.studio reveals Amancaya (@aman)
Riyadh Air (@riyadhair) prepares for takeoff
@fourseasons turns its attention to Sevilla
America’s protein economy faces growing pressure
@shawellness advances its longevity ambitions
@chilipad redesigns the modern sleep environment
The peptide market moves into the mainstream
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These are this week’s top stories shaping culture, commerce, place, and modern wealth.
INSPIRE What shapes taste, culture, and direction
Prairie Ark Lands on the Inner Mongolian Steppe
Prairie Ark, a public gallery by Beijing studio Büro Ziyu Zhuang, has been completed on the shore of Lake Laoli in Inner Mongolia’s Ulanqab grassland, roughly 160 kilometres west of Beijing. The building arrives on the steppe as something deliberately foreign — a low circular volume whose sloping roof is buried into the earth at one edge and lifts toward the sky at the other. Visitors climb directly onto the roof from the grassland and enter through an opening cut into the top. Inside, a single undivided hall sits beneath stepped skylights, built for exhibitions, conferences, and gatherings. A separate Nomads’ Beacon Tower, drawing loosely on the signal towers of the nearby Great Wall, anchors the site alongside Founder Ziyu Zhuang has been clear about the intent — the design refuses every piece of grassland shorthand available to it. No yurts, no nomadic motifs, no pull toward the expected. Instead, Prairie Ark positions itself as an object apart, a structure that derives its identity from contrast rather than imitation. Open to the public, it sits on the steppe as both destination and provocation, where the landscape does much of the work. Read the full story here.
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INNOVATE What is being built, launched, and redefined
Audi signals a new era with the Nuvolari
Audi has revealed the most powerful production car in its history, shown on 4 June on the fringes of the Monaco Grand Prix. Named for pre-war Auto Union driver Tazio Nuvolari — one of the four marques behind Audi’s interlocking rings — the Nuvolari combines a twin-turbo V8 with three electric motors and will be limited to 499 examples worldwide. Order books open later this year, with first deliveries expected in 2027. More significant than the performance figures is what the car represents. The Nuvolari is the first production Audi to carry the brand’s new design language, translating last year’s Concept C into a road-going flagship and signalling the direction the company intends to take across its future range. It arrives as Audi prepares for its Formula One debut as a full works team, positioning the marque in territory traditionally occupied by Ferrari and McLaren and marking one of the clearest statements yet about where the brand intends to compete. Read the full story here or visit Audi here.
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INVEST Where capital is moving — and why
Jacobsen Studio reveals Amancaya
Jacobsen Studio has revealed its architecture for Amancaya, the resort and residences Aman is building across two private cays in Exuma, the Bahamas — the name meaning ‘peaceful island’ in Taíno. The $260 million development spans roughly 400 acres and will be the brand’s first property in the country and its third in the Caribbean, following Amanera in the Dominican Republic and Amanyara in Turks and Caicos. The scheme runs to a 36-pavilion hotel, a collection of Aman Residences across three to five bedrooms, a marina, a Beach Club, an Aman Spa, and dining spread across both islands. The Brazilian studio has worked in long horizontal lines and a restrained material palette of stone, woven fibre, and aged wood — drawing on coral textures and the surrounding sea, with pavilions set apart and oriented toward open water. Interiors come from Yabu Pushelberg, landscaping from Raymond Jungles, and the project is being developed alongside Swiss investor and sailor Dona Bertarelli, with a targeted LEED certification. Aman has not confirmed an opening date. This is the first detailed look at the design. Read the full story here or visit Amancaya here.
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INDULGE How wealth is expressed and experienced
Elie Saab expands into private aviation
Bombardier and Elie Saab have unveiled a bespoke interior for the Global 8000, presented at Bombardier’s Aviator Lounge in Monaco over the Grand Prix weekend. It is the planemaker’s first collaboration with a fashion house, and the Lebanese couturier’s first venture into aviation. The design centres on a main lounge wrapped in a birds-in-flight motif across walls and textiles, which Saab describes as a reflection of freedom and movement. The collaboration arrives aboard Bombardier’s flagship Global 8000 and extends a broader strategy that has seen Elie Saab steadily expand beyond fashion into residences, hospitality, interiors, and yachting. By the time the first Saab-specified aircraft enter service around 2029, the project will sit within a growing lifestyle ecosystem that increasingly positions the designer not simply as a couturier, but as a luxury brand extending across multiple categories of ownership and experience. Read the full story here or visit Bombardier here.
