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Auberge Collection has opened reservations for The Knox, its first Dallas hotel, which welcomes guests on 29 January 2027 with 140 rooms, 48 private residences and four restaurants from about £746 a night. Martin Brudnizki designed the interiors as his only standalone hotel in the United States, for BDT & MSD Partners and Trammell Crow Company, the owners of Highland Park Village now remaking Knox Street around it. Christian Clerc, President and CEO of Auberge Collection, calls it a new chapter in the group's move into major cities; Rick Fidel, the hotel's general manager, wants it to become the city's gathering place.
travel
Ifuru Island Maldives has launched Ifuru Fanatics, a four-tier membership scheme for guests who book direct with the independent resort in the Raa Atoll. Basic, Turquoise, Blue and Pink tiers bundle a bottle of Prosecco on arrival, a welcome from the general manager, one-level suite and villa upgrades and up to 50% off future stays. For an independent resort competing with the Maldivian groups, the scheme ties repeat guests to the property rather than to the booking sites.
McLaren Automotive has revealed the McL 6GT concept at the 2026 Monterey Car Week, a car inspired by Bruce McLaren's unfinished M6GT project of the 1960s and built around an authentic manual transmission, the first offered by the marque since the legendary F1 of 1992. With full carbon fibre construction and V8 power, it previews a highly exclusive new type of supercar beyond the core portfolio, with a production version promised for 2028 and tactility at the heart of its design.
motoring
The St James's dining room that first opened in 1929 is entering a fresh era under The Evolv Collection. A restoration has returned Quaglino's Art Deco framework and famous staircase to full order, while a new menu follows founder Giovanni Quaglino's journey from Piedmont to Cannes by way of The Savoy. A champagne bar, a seafood counter, a dessert bar styled on a Cannes tabac and a new stage for cabaret complete the picture, and a Ten Pound Plates daytime offer keeps the venue's founding idea of accessible glamour in place.
food & drink
The superyacht community raised £0.9m in a single evening in Cannes, at the second Mercy Ships Yachting Day Gala held during the city's yachting festival week. More than 240 figures from across the industry gathered at the Carlton Cannes, where a live auction and an anonymous matching donor doubled the room's giving. The article draws on Bob Allen of Robert Allen Law, Mercy Ships' Cargo, Bryce Wagner, Tim Morley, Gypsy Queens, Mercy Ships Global, Hill Robinson and Morley Yachts.