Summer’s must-have accessories
Plus, healthy chocolate, classic car culture in Como, a Fire Island house, and Bang & Olufsen’s new vinyl set-up

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| Splash out! This summer’s must-have accessories take us to the beachFrom micro bags to wraparound sunglasses – shop our picks of the season to embrace summer’s escapist mood
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| Inside Villa d’Este’s parade of four-wheeled masterpieces and their keepers
The Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este is Italy’s pre-eminent classic car event. Jonathan Bell joins the collectors to report on a weekend of high-end car culture in Como
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| A Fire Island house for two sisters reimagines the beach home typology
Coughlin Scheel Architects designs an extended-family retreat for the 21st century
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| Bang & Olufsen’s Recreated Classics series continues with this ultimate vinyl set-up
The Beosystem 3000c pairs a newly revived aluminium turntable with contemporary speakers
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| San Francisco’s controversial Vaillancourt Fountain could be facing demolition
The brutalist sculpture is conspicuously absent from renders showing a redeveloped Embarcadero Plaza and people are unhappy about it, including the structure’s 95-year-old artist
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| Healthy chocolate? Eat it at Makers, London’s new Lebanese chocolatierLocated in Chelsea, Makers offers treats free of refined sugar, seed oils, wheat and dairy – and they taste delicious
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| Take off with the June 2025 Travel Issue
Head to Hong Kong, paint the town red in Las Vegas, reimagine room service, and make a splash in sizzling swimwear – the June issue is hot to globe-trot, on newsstands now
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