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Among legendary French cognac house Hennessy’s invaluable reserves of eaux-de-vie, stored at the historic family estate on the banks of the Charente river, the very rarest and best vintages are set aside to create Richard Hennessy. This ultra-exclusive blend of aged spirits, named for the 250-year-old Hennessy maison’s founder, fills only 12 barrels, or tierçons, the traditional French oak casks handmade by generations of master craftsman at Hennessy’s own cooperage. This season, the Richard Hennessy blend gets a breath of fresh air courtesy of a cool new collaboration with Daniel Libeskind, famed architect of iconic buildings the world over. Libeskind has created a limited edition, bespoke Baccarat crystal decanter that will become the new vessel for Richard Hennessy going forward. Priced at $7,000, the decanter’s mix of curves and angles, and…

Ukrainian model Tanya Kizko celebrated her Maxim March/April cover appearance by hosting an intimate, eco-conscious dinner benefitting a charity for the children of her war-torn homeland. The elegant philanthropic event featured a silent auction for Save The Children Ukraine, followed by a zerowaste dinner prepared by Chef Denevin Miranda at The Osprey restaurant inside the stunning 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge. Guests were welcomed into the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, a striking natural sanctuary located on the Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront, and greeted with a signature cocktail representing a sunflower, the national flower, of Ukraine. Proceeds from the specialty cocktails served at the hotel were donated to Save the Children Ukraine for the entire month of April. As a luxury lifestyle hotel brand inspired by nature, 1 Hotels cultivates the best of…

Spanish Jade. A magnetic piece of art in the form of a Triumph Thruxton transformed from the practical to the beautiful. The antithesis of the raison d’etre of the original 1960s Triumph Bonneville “Thruxton”—a racing machine par excellence built for speed and nothing else. This re-imagination by Tamarit Motorcyles, the renowned Spanish custom builder based in the small town of Elche near Alicante, is the opposite. A thing of beauty built not for speed, but to be adored. To melt the hearts of steely, hardened, motorcycle men. In much the same way that a sidelong glance from a seductive blonde siren would. Arriving at the weekend meet with thighs hugging a fuel tank re-clad in quilted leather, atop a matching quilted leather seat hanging out into the ether above the extended…

Very few ultra-high-end watch brands can claim to be doing something radically different than the competition. MB&F, Jacob & Co. and Richard Mille all inhabit this rarefied stratum, and Urwerk, the avant-garde Swiss watchmaker founded in 1997, should surely be part of the club. Urwerk’s dynamic duo of Martin Frei and Felix Baumgartner have now been turning the world of haute horology on its head for 25 years, with seemingly impossible feats of mechanical design and engineering. Having broken the mold several times, they are now, a quarter-century into their history, refining some of their best-received concepts. And hence we have the new bare-metal limited edition UR-112 Aggregat Odyssey. Urwerk cites spacecraft from Star Wars, Watchmen, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica as the inspiration for the titanium and steel tour-de-force, limited…

I pulled in behind the law, hyper-caffeinated and jittery, my circadian rhythm still fast asleep in New York City. Somewhere at the back of my lizard brain, a murmuring about not having any number plates. And this perhaps not being smart. My copilot was a chipper young Brit ready for whatever the day would bring. And what it brought first was the Metropolitan Police pulling us over to ask on what planet we thought driving around central London with no license plates was acceptable. Needless to say the planet was the one from whence the $900,000 David Brown Speedback GT I was driving emanated. The feline PR girl who had dropped the keys into my hands not 15 minutes earlier had assured me that the number plate thing would not be…

The 2022 Maxim Bitcoin Experience was the absolute hottest party of Miami’s annual Bitcoin Conference weekend. On April 8, Maxim and Hyde Beach at SLS South Beach hosted hundreds of models, influencers, and VIPs for an incredible event during the crypto conference, where billionaire investor Mark Cuban was the keynote speaker. The 2022 Maxim Bitcoin Experience offered the perfect blend of luxury lifestyle and financial tech in one unforgettable nightlife experience. Partygoers enjoyed musical sets by DJ Five Star, DJ Melo, and DJ Iron Lyon and free-flowing champagne and cocktails. Guests also posed for personalized red-carpet photos and enjoyed unique event activations. Sponsored by Coinchange, the Maxim-branded event saw Coinchange CEO Maxim Galash join forces with Luke Wryder of VIP Nightlife for the Miami Bitcoin blowout.…