NOBLE&STYLE

Ipanema doesn't need the hard sell. The beach speaks for itself, and so does the food. This is a neighbourhood where the restaurants have figured out the balance between looking good and actually delivering, where a white-linen Italian can sit a few blocks from a smoky, fire-driven Brazilian grill, and both make perfect sense.

There is a particular kind of founder story that begins not with ambition but with dissatisfaction. Lenny Niemeyer did not arrive in Rio de Janeiro with a business plan or a vision board. She arrived in the late 1970s as a São Paulo native, encountering Carioca life for the first time. What struck her immediately was the gap between the women she saw around her, their ease, t...

In contemporary mobility, the bicycle is having a very real second golden age. It’s no longer just a way to get from A to B. The right bike can be a statement piece, depending on design, build quality, and the choices you make along the way.