Bombardier Experience Magazine 36

Bombardier’s Business Aviation Magazine • Issue 36 • 2021

Upward Spiral Serene New Zealand • Chopard’s Odyssey The Global 7500’s World of Wellness • And More

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Radar: The stunning science behind the Mygdal Plantlight.

PROFILE

Setting the Stage PRG’s Chairman and CEO, Jere Harris, on a new era of entertainment.

By Victoria Marin

New Horizons Private aviation trailblazer VistaJet prepares for a bold new chapter in business travel.

By Christopher Korchin

CR AFTSMANSHIP

Myths & Legends The muses and magic behind Chopard’s divine red carpet collection of fine jewelry.

By Elio Iannacci

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Eye in the Sky

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Haven Sent

A bold new hotel concept reigns above South Africa’s vast ecosystem.

By Charu Suri

With its natural grandeur and serene beauty, New Zealand’s South Island captivates at every turn.

By Ellen Himelfarb

IN EVERY ISSUE 07 Insight 08 Contributors 11 Radar 53 Bombardier Worldwide

CITY GUIDE

Boston Proper An uplifting tour of New England’s cultural and culinary capital.

By Christopher Muther

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The soaring heights of fashion photographer Melvin Sokolsky.

By Elio Iannacci

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Higher Ground

AIRCR AFT

Cool. Calm. Connected.

Bombardier’s Global 7500 aircraft masters the art of wellness.

By Michael Stephen Johnson

WINGSPAN

Set to Soar How Bombardier’s Customer Delivery Team ensures a seamless, safe and celebratory entry into service.

By Renée Morrison EXPERIENCE

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Spotlight: Melvin Sokolsky’s aviation-inspired photography.

PHOTOS: ERWIN BLOCK (PLANTLIGHT) • MELVIN SOKOLSKY

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he global pandemic has fostered a heightened awareness of the benefits of business aviation.

Market conditions have showcased the sector’s versatility and transformational capabilities as business aircraft took flight to support a world in crisis. By providing essential medevac, cargo and repatriation flights, and by filling routes cancelled by commercial carriers, business aviation has become a hero. It is a thriving sector of which Bombardier is a proud and integral part.

To thrive requires preparation, innovation and mitigating the fear of change. We have taken on the challenges of recent years, and we are transforming Bombardier to ensure continued success by focusing solely on you—our valued business jet customers. Our flexibility, responsiveness, purposeful action and strong leadership will remain and continue to ensure your success operating our products.

We have an unmatched portfolio of business aircraft, including award winning, best-selling and best-in-class jets. Our passion for consistently superior customer service is enduring, and we are embracing technology to augment the ownership experience. Our incredibly talented workforce is wholeheartedly committed to this collective purpose, setting us on a dynamic new trajectory for our business and our customers.

Redefining experiences is top of the agenda for many of us as we move forward. This Experience showcases two inspiring additions to the worldwide repertoire of boutique accommodations. The simply stunning tree houses of Hapuku Lodge, hovering high above New Zealand’s Kaikoura coastline, invite guests to appreciate nature’s full splendour deep in a Kanuka grove canopy. Reinventing the sleeper-train notion, South Africa’s Kruger Shalati—The Train on the Bridge hotel, reflects the essence of local African design and culture. Each artfully appointed carriage of the permanently stationed train offers unencumbered views of a constantly changing Kruger National Park scenery.

This Experience also asserts our position on the business aviation landscape. We are proud to showcase the superlative characteristics that position the Global 7500 as our flagship aircraft. An interview with Thomas Flohr, Founder and Chairman of VistaJet, profiles the membership group’s impeccable aviation offering and how the all-Bombardier fleet satisfies even the most discerning clients. Finally, ensuring a smooth transition from production to delivery for each new aircraft is an essential part of Bombardier’s exceptional customer experience. Discover how our extraordinary aircraft delivery team seamlessly manages the complex process.

As these features demonstrate, we remain committed to delivering our signature smooth ride, incorporating ultimate styling and technology into our spacious cabins to support comfort and productivity, and continue to push the boundaries of aircraft performance through our portfolio of multiaward-winning Challenger and Global aircraft. As we commence the next chapter of our history we are excited about the future.

“REDEFINING EXPERIENCES IS TOP OF THE AGENDA FOR MANY OF US AS WE MOVE FORWARD.”

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George Greaves Set to Soar / page 25

Bombardier’s Business Aviation Magazine • Issue 36 • 2021

Whether it’s in collaboration with brands such as Hèrmes and Bulgari or creating one-of-a-kind prints and products for his online shop— aptly named Printed Goods—artist George Greaves’ fastidiousness can be found in every one of his illustrations. For this issue, the Bristolborn, London-based talent drew a thoroughly modern Art Deco graphic for the magazine’s Wingspan feature pages.

Upward Spiral Serene New Zealand • Chopard’s Odyssey The Global 7500’s World of Wellness • And More

Bénédicte Lassalle Haven Sent / page 46

Capturing some of the most interesting pockets of the Earth is all in a day’s work for photographer Bénédicte Lassalle, whose extraordinary images have been published in Vogue Paris, Le Figaro, Le Monde and The Boston Globe. She went above and beyond the call of duty when snapping New Zealand’s South Island as Lassalle refused to miss snapping a sunset or a sundown during her 10-day sojourn.

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Setting the Stage / page 28

Living in New York for more than two decades, award-winning journalist Victoria Marin was well-prepared to interview PRG’s Chairman and CEO, Jere Harris, whose productions have helped embolden the Big Apple’s razzle dazzle for years. Marin’s cultural acumen—as seen in her work in publications such as The Washington Post, Thrillist and Departures—allowed her to engage in a stimulating chat with Harris on the future of entertainment as we know it.

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Boston Proper / page 18

Tasked with rediscovering his hometown, travel writer Christopher Muther strolled through his favorite neighborhoods to remind himself why Boston is a cultural epicenter and culinary capital. As a longtime travel columnist for The Boston Globe, Muther sees his jet-setting ways as an extension of his childhood dreams, spurred on by his globetrotting grandparents, who gave a series of children’s books (This Is London, This Is Paris, This Is Hong Kong) to him when he was merely five years old.

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R ADAR Goods • Design • Inspiration

PHOTO: ERWIN BLOCK

Spring Eternal A self-sufficient ecosystem living in a lighting fixture? This is the unbelievable beauty and science behind the Mygdal Plantlight. At the crossroads of technology and nature, German-based architecture and design studio NUI took years of research to plan out photosynthesis-friendly home lighting with a multidisciplinary group of furniture designers, farmers, botanists and scientists. The idea of having an encased plant that not only brightens a room but is independent of daylight and requires no watering seems like sorcery. Yet with specifically designed LED lights and composed soil, the cycle of nature has been replicated in bulb form so that each leaf stays lush and strong. The luster and glow of each Mygdal Plantlight can be controlled by the touch of a smartphone or tablet and since different vegetation elicits different moods, owners have the option of changing their indoor greenery every season. —E . I.

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Fine Tune It was the end of an era when the Juilliard School in New York City announced it would stop the practice of solely stocking its classrooms with Steinway pianos. Purists were, at first, concerned with the idea of allowing instruments from venerated Italian piano maker, Fazioli, into the confines of the sacred musical institution. That was until word got around about the sound quality and sleek design that Fazioli offered.

The pinnacle of Fazioli’s craft can be found in the recently designed Marco Polo model, finished with a red high-gloss varnish and a hand-painted reproduction of a masterpiece by the Venetian artist Canaletto.

Available in veneers such as Satin, Ebony and Silver, instruments feature a laminated maple rim and a stunning quarter-sawn soundboard imported directly from the Italian Alps. —E . I.

Big Time Sensuality With its striking electric-blue sunburst pattern face and exquisite titanium frame, the Endeavour Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon is one of the most remarkably designed watches H. Moser & Cie. has ever crafted. The positioning of the timepiece’s chimes and hammers, unconventionally set on the dial side, gives the watch an understated elegance.

With no minute markings, the tourbillon floats on the dial so time appears to be actually flying. —JULIETTE BAXTER

Sotheby’s newest gallery—dedicated to the curation of art, jewelry and antiques—is fast becoming a compulsory stop for both new and seasoned collectors. Located in the Royal Poinciana Plaza, Palm Beach’s shopping oasis, Sotheby’s latest hub features a museum-worthy roster of artists within its 2,700-square-foot space.

This expansion is, in part, due to Sotheby’s recent successes with their ongoing online auction program, which includes coveted items ranging from collectable one-of-a-kind designer Nike sneakers to Chippendale furnishings previously owned by the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma. For the Palm Beach gallery location, blue chip art from Pablo Picasso and Mark Rothko have already made a splash in serious collector’s circles and so the bar is set sky high for the gallery’s upcoming spring exhibitions. —SHANNON LIVERPOOL 12

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PHOTOS: COURTESY OF SOTHEBY’S • ROBERTO ZAVA (FAZIOLI PIANOFORTI) COURTESY OF MOSER (WATCH)

Sneak Peek

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Inner Circles Born from the imaginations of Stephane Noyer, a computer scientist fascinated by geometry, and Julia Ibbini, a graphic designer with a background in collage, the singular vases from Ibbini Studio embody the idea of multi-dimensionality. Each piece in the Symbio Vessels collection is a study in hard-won patience: They can take up to six months to create. The complex process involves paper or veneer woods, which are collected and layered using collaging technology. Algorithms are employed to intensify hand-drawn designs, which are then passed through high-precision machines that laser-cut thousands of individual motifs. Completing the 50/50 collaboration between human and computer, they are assembled entirely by hand using glue, pins and surgical scalpels, and finished in crystals and mother-ofpearl. The innovation behind the collection hasn’t gone unnoticed as it was recently awarded the Van Cleef & Arpels Emergent Design Prize in partnership with Tashkeel. —E . I.

PHOTOS: LAURENT PARRAULT (BACCARAT) • COURTESY OF IBBINI STUDIO

Crystal Therapy Netflix’s beloved series The Queen’s Gambit has managed to jumpstart our collective curiosity about the game of chess. After Anya Taylor-Joy’s portrayal of chess whiz Beth Harmon was released, the online gaming network Twitch saw a jump in its chess audience from 12,520 on the show’s premiere date to 96,998 just six weeks later. Those who have been inspired to get into the game will want to score a limited edition chess set commissioned by Baccarat. Renowned Dutch designer Marcel Wanders is the brainchild behind the architecturally inspired set, which includes beautifully sculpted crystal pawns, a marble board and a queen that doubles as a stem vase for a single bloom—for when you’re lucky enough to make all the right moves. —J. B .

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Higher Ground The soaring heights of fashion photographer Melvin Sokolsky.

By Elio Iannacci

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he prolific career of Melvin Sokolsky is a prime example of how one person can reinvent an entire genre of photography from the ground up. A favorite of Diana Vreeland—the celebrated editor of American Vogue who helped discover and promote the likes of Cher, Mick Jagger and Lauren Bacall well before they became known the world over— Sokolsky’s early praise from the uncontested empress of fashion turned out to be prophetic.

“When I was in my twenties, I started working with Ms. Vreeland and I was really trying to push the boundaries of what fashion could look like because I saw that so many shoots looked so staged, lifeless and boring,” Sokolsky says from his home in Los Angeles. “When she saw some of my early contact sheets, she said, ‘Twenty years from now, your photography will be as important as Picasso’s artworks.’”

True to Vreeland’s word, Sokolsky’s extraordinary oeuvre has been exhibited in major museums around the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Yet, at the age of 87, Sokolsky says he has so much more to accomplish. “I still work every day,” he explains. “My whole life is still about trying to get my pictures to look as vivid as my imagination. I’d like to get to a place where my photographed images are as vivid as what I see in my mind’s eye.”

What draws most people to Sokolsky is the Bubble Series, a number of dreamlike photographs he took while on assignment for Harper’s Bazaar in Paris during the spring fashion collections of 1963. Rather than follow the crowd of established photographers, Sokolsky did not, in his words, “do the street-style thing” and capture same-old glances and poses near French landmarks. “That whole travelogue approach is what I wanted to avoid.” What Sokolsky did

do, was hunt down plexiglass and metal used for aircraft frames in order to design and build the now-legendary transparent orbs seen in his photos. The mechanics of it all are mind-boggling: the Bubble photo shoots required cranes and just the right adventurous model to not only be lifted high above ground in Sokolsky’s globular structure, but also perform in it. Model Simone D’Aillencourt, draped in couture Dior, proved to be one of his most thrilling collaborators.

“My direction when we lifted her up in the bubble was simple: I told her she would be the captain of the ship and she could fly it to anywhere in Paris. Most people were terrified. She looked like she was born in it.”

The high-flying idea scared the editors of Harper’s Bazaar so much that Sokolsky was asked to pay for a reshoot out of his own pocket if his aerial experiment failed, but he remained unphased.

Fueled by childhood dreams of soaring through the air like Superman and fixated on the spherical figures found in Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch’s oil painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, Sokolsky was set on shooting a real-life fantasy. “When I was a little boy, I dreamed that I could fly. I had these visions of me up in the sky,” he says, wistfully. “Soon after, I became interested in Einstein’s and Newton’s gravitational theories and I was hooked.”

The result of this blending illusion with ingenuity was an outpouring of applause from tastemakers for years to come. So much so that, after working steadily for magazines and luxury brands for more than 51 years, Sokolsky was asked to recreate his famous bubble shoot for Harper’s Bazaar and have Jennifer Aniston pose for him to commemorate the publication’s revered holiday issue. Those images, and the many he created over the course of five decades, continue to be studied in major educational institutions and shared on social media (especially now, when the idea of living in a society of bubbles has taken on a new resonance).

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The art scene’s preoccupation with Sokolsky’s magic is a long and storied one as well.

When his pictures were first printed, Sokolsky was introduced to Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter was convinced that the photographer actually had the ability to help Dalí jet into the sky. Yet it was Sokolsky who sky-rocketed into fame and soon after, the sharp shooter’s work was exhibited in the most esteemed art spaces in the world.

Throughout a half-century behind the camera, Sokolsky’s upper hand has been his capacity to see human beings as more than mere hangers or mannequins for clothing and accessories. Rather, like most sentient fashion photographers, he positions his subject as the focal point of the shot, a force the viewer must reckon with. Often, his subjects look like they have superpowers.

“He was never beauty or fashion led, he is much more innovative,” said British model Twiggy of the well-known photos she worked on with him in New York City, including one which had her embark on a translucent helicopter. “Melvin’s photography is about movement rather than a static shot.”

It is a style that one of Sokolsky’s main gallerists, Izzy Sulejmani of Toronto’s Izzy Gallery, likens to a series of premonitions. “His work feels futuristic, no matter what era he is shooting in,” he says, noting that Sokolsky is still open to experimentation during every step of the process. “He still makes his own prints once the photos are taken… so that oneof-a-kind sentiment is always there since his hands [touch] everything from start to finish.”

To master the techniques of lighting, angles and photo development is a feat in itself, but Sokolsky insists something else is at work when he captures an image. “I only press the camera button when I get that feeling I can’t define. It’s a stick in my heart that says, ‘yes, go ahead’—that’s when I know something important is about to happen.”

[PAGE 14] Over New York (1963), Courtesy of Izzy Gallery.

[PAGE 16] Jennifer Aniston in Harper’s Bazaar (2015), Courtesy of Melvin Sokolsky.

[PAGE 17] On the Seine, Paris (1963), Courtesy of Izzy Gallery.

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t’s not often that a 390-year-old city can be referred to as fresh, but in the case of Boston, the description is surprisingly accurate. Boston still offers up colonial-era brick sidewalks and brownstone-filled enclaves, but it also has a shiny new neighborhood to explore. The Seaport District (above) has emerged in an area that was once a wasteland of sun-scorched parking lots and weeds. It’s now chockablock with restaurants, shops and a breathtaking Harborwalk.

By Christopher Muther

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If it’s summer, you’ll find most Bostonians escaping to Cape Cod and the islands (Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket): It’s just a 90-minute ferry ride to the Cape from downtown Boston. The posh Wequassett Resort and Golf Club in Harwich was the first hotel on the Cape to be awarded five stars by Forbes, and its 18-hole golf course is equally lauded. Play tennis, or hit the links on a course that Golf Digest ranked one of the 20 best, then wile away the evening in front of your room’s private fireplace.

Another exquisite abode option is the Chatham Bars Inn. Make sure you try dinner at its restaurant, Stars. Here, you can gaze at Chatham Harbor from your table as chefs prepare dishes with ingredients from its own eight-acre farm.

PHOTO: F11PHOTO (HARBOR)

An uplifting tour of New England’s cultural and culinary capital.

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Last summer, the pandemic transformed Boston into an alfresco dining paradise. The city’s outdoor dining program returns this spring, and sidewalks will again be filled with tables and strings of lights. Walk through leafy Union Park in the South End neighborhood for true café culture at Coppa and the South End Buttery. You can find one of the city’s newest cultural institutions nearby, under a highway overpass: Underground at Ink Block is an eight-acre urban park filled with powerful streetmurals. It’s the ideal spot for a cultural stroll on a warm afternoon. After a quiet winter, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts busts out in layers of color this summer. The museum will focus on the work of Boston children’s book artist Ekua Holmes beginning July 17. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum spins into summer, showcasing the work of artist Shen Wei. His Painting in Motion exhibition runs through June 20. Also: Do not leave without a visit to the Gardner’s courtyard (right), which is a calming botanical wonderland.

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PHOTOS: MARK KLINCHIN (ISABELLE GARDNER MUSEUM) READ MCKENDREE (THE NEWBURY HOTEL) • VICTOR JANCZAR (TASTING COUNTER)

This spring, Boston welcomes a pair of newly revamped luxury hotels. The Newbury (left) opened in March after an extensive top-to-bottom renovation of the nearly 100-year-old building. At the top of the hotel is a new, 4,000-square-foot modern glass rooftop restaurant with sweeping city views. Reserve the Mansion—one of the Newbury’s Presidential Suites—which offers extensive views of Boston’s Public Garden (landscaped in a Victorian style and blossoming with cherry trees). Another abode to consider is the Langham, which is scheduled to open in spring and located in the Financial District.

It was recently stripped to the studs and given an elegant new look with glamorous art deco nods to the days when the building was the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

—INDULGE—

Dining at the Tasting Counter, located in Boston’s west side, is an absolute must for anyone who is curious to sample the work of one of the city’s most revered chefs, Peter Ungár. The restaurant’s nine-course tasting menu weighs in with fish, seasonal New England delicacies and a daily change of menu items that range from mains such as octopus with charred strawberry and local beach-rose vinegar to desserts such as golden beet granita.

Chef-selected wines, beers and sake are paired with every plate so all unsavory aftertastes are avoided. Tickets for dinner are purchased ahead of time, so planning is essential. Diners sit at a U-shaped counter in the chic space and watch the chef teams create their meals. It’s the most delicious floor show in the Boston area.

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Cool. Calm. Connected.

WITH CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY AND REVOLUTIONARY DESIGN, BOMBARDIER’S GLOBAL 7500 AIRCR AFT MASTERS THE ART OF WELLNESS.

By Michael Stephen Johnson

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e’re always searching for comfort—perhaps now more than ever—when what we really need is wellness.

Comfort is what you feel in the moment: It’s a warm meal after a long workday; a bed that lulls you into a deep sleep; a perfect song that cues up as soon as you press play. Wellness, meanwhile, is what stays with you long after the moment has passed. It’s a lifetime of warm meals, deep sleeps and perfect songs. It’s comfort you can carry with you everywhere you go.

As the world’s largest and longest-range business jet, the Global 7500 aircraft offers comfort the likes of which this industry has never seen—but that’s only part of the story. The Global 7500 is the industry’s first business jet with an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). Also: No other design team in business aviation dove this deep into the science of feeling good. When you experience smooth ride technology, award-winning ergonomic seating, lighting systems designed to beat jet lag, and the purest air and cleanest sound in business aviation, it becomes clear that this is about much more than comfort. This is about wellness.

Fast and Steady

We’re all in a hurry, but at what cost? Do we have to compromise whenever time is against us? No, we don’t. Thanks to the Global 7500 jet’s smooth ride technology, speed can be safe and comfortable.

Consider the wing design: The profile is clean and highly swept, wing loading and flexibility are engineered to absorb and dampen turbulence like no other jet in its class, allowing the Global 7500 aircraft to aerodynamically cut through the atmosphere at even the highest speeds. The design is at the core of the Global 7500 aircraft’s unrivaled field performance, as state-of-the-art leading-edge slats and double-slotted Fowler flaps allow the jet to seamlessly switch from high cruising speeds to exceptional control and agility during approach, landing and takeoff.

A Seat in the Clouds

Within the Global 7500 aircraft, a range of suites allow business and pleasure to coexist. The Principal Suite is your home away from home, with customizable features like a permanent bed and a true stand-up shower. The Conference Suite seats six for meetings or, better still, a fine dining experience prepared in the industry’s largest and bestequipped kitchen. It’s as inviting a space, ergonomically designed with storage options that enable cabin crew to thrive and passengers to indulge. The bright and open Club Suite is optimized for productivity, including a fully connected nice Touch cabin management system (CMS) and the Bombardier Touch dial, which features the first OLED display dial to be certified for business aircraft.

One of the Global 7500 aircraft’s most defining features is the Nuage seat, a crown jewel in Bombardier’s pioneering approach to inflight ergonomics. It has been three decades since business aviation has seen a revolution in seat architecture like this: It’s the industry’s first seat with a patented floating base and tilting headrest, not to mention a tilt link system that enables a deep recline. Bombardier’s designers collaborate with customers on an extensive palette of custom leathers, stitching and cushioning to ensure that each Nuage seat has a personal, one-of-a-kind look.

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THE GLOBAL 7500 AIRCRAFT OFFERS COMFORT THE LIKES OF WHICH THIS INDUSTRY HAS NEVER SEEN.

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Technology and innovation were extensively used in curating a redefined passenger experience—one in which wellness can be maintained while in flight.

Light and Sound

Wellness is a sensorial experience that unfolds over time. We can’t always pinpoint exactly where or when it begins; sometimes it’s so subtle we can barely pinpoint it at all. Wellness can creep up on you, it can make you stop in your tracks and realize that something in the background of your life, something you barely notice, has enriched your body and mind. You’ll find this kind of experience throughout the Global 7500 aircraft: seamless in-flight features you have to feel to believe.

So much has been said about how the right light can stimulate mood and transform atmosphere. Ongoing psychological studies from institutes such as the University of Michigan confirm that light has the ability to stabilize our circadian rhythms, help us get a good night’s sleep, alleviate depression and increase cognitive performance.

Soleil is aviation’s first circadian rhythm-based cabin lighting system—and it’s exclusive to the Global 7500 jet. Its groundbreaking, highly intelligent Dynamic Daylight Simulation uses specific combinations of red and blue light wavelengths, which studies have shown to help prevent jet lag: They influence the body’s melatonin production, thereby synchronizing your circadian rhythm with the time zone at your destination. Night owls and early birds alike can conveniently choose whatever circadian adjustment setting they please using the nice Touch CMS, which includes 24 natural lighting presets, a host of custom mood lighting options for everything from meetings to meditation, and a dynamic lighting feature that can recreate outdoor lighting so lifelike, you may begin to think you’re soaking in the sun somewhere in the Mediterranean.

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Healthy dining on the Global 7500 aircraft can be prepared in what is considered to be the industry’s largest and best-equipped kitchen.

That sense of serenity is reflected in all that you hear in the Global 7500’s cabin. In fact, Bombardier’s consummate l’Opéra audio system fills the Global 7500 aircraft with the richest, cleanest and most dynamic sound in business aviation. It’s the kind of system that allows instrumentation and vocal range to be heard with precision, regardless of music genre. It also features fully integrated full-range speakers, each designed to deliver pristine sound at even the highest volume levels; class-D amplifiers that would rival most home theaters, and a dynamic compression engineered for greater consistency, so you don’t have to keep reaching for the volume control. Yet there’s much more to the l’Opéra audio system than the fact that it was built to reduce audio spikes and boost low volume moments. It’s also ergonomically designed, with seat-centric sound technology that comfortably reaches you at ear level wherever you are in the aircraft. The more you make yourself at home, the more you can customize your sound experience with a sweet spot feature that lets you pipe audio to your precise location in the cabin.

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The Air Up There

We’re all more mindful of cleanliness these days—especially in the air.

That’s why the Global 7500 jet is equipped with Bombardier’s Pũr Air, an industry-leading air purification and circulation system available exclusively on Global aircraft.

Pũr Air was designed with your long-term health in mind. While 100 percent fresh air only systems are limited in their ability to filter air because they aren’t typically equipped with HEPA filters, Pũr Air is a dual system, offering both 100 percent fresh air and filtered air. Its HEPA filters capture 99.99 percent of viruses, allergens and bacteria, while its activated carbon filters help neutralize unwanted odors and gases. As the filters clean the air, the filtered air recirculation feature keeps your cabin nice and humid for your lungs, skin and sinuses.

Pũr Air can also heat and cool your cabin twice as fast as aircraft using a 100 percent fresh air only system, and its circulation system can refresh your cabin with 100 percent fresh air in as little as 90 seconds—up to 25 percent faster than the competition.

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Set to Soar HOW BOMBARDIER’S CUSTOMER DELIVERY TEAM ENSURES A SEAMLESS, SAFE AND CELEBR ATORY ENTRY INTO SERVICE.

By Renée Morrison

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THIS PAGE: A red carpet delivery at Bombardier’s Montreal facility.

OPPOSITE PAGE: Bombardier’s Customer Delivery Team leaders: Ken Drennan, Director of Aircraft Delivery (left) and Sergio Marrone, Vice President of Delivery (right).

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t goes without saying that the purchase of a business jet is one of the most important investments an entrepreneur can make. From contract signing to interior completion, thousands of hours go into preparing each aircraft for final delivery. It is only after each avionics system has been triple-tested, the last custom leather seat has been installed and every last inch of interior and exterior has been polished and groomed, that the aircraft is considered ready for final delivery. What is involved in the unveiling of a Bombardier business jet? The last step of the purchase process is thoughtfully planned out and carefully executed by Bombardier’s Customer Delivery Team, led by Sergio Marrone, Vice President of Delivery and Ken Drennan, Director of Aircraft Delivery.

The most important aspect of the delivery process is that each one is unique and respectful of the customer’s desires. “Sometimes it’s an owner’s representative that comes to our Montreal facility to accept the aircraft. Other times, a new owner flies in and brings the whole family along,” says Marrone. “We’ve had deliveries with 300 people on the shop floor, the airplane in the middle of the delivery center, with music blaring and employees clapping. I’ve escorted families down to the airplane that were so emotional—and our employees were, too. They built an airplane and put a lot of passion into what they do, so it’s a special moment when they get to see the customer and be part of a delivery ceremony.”

Each business jet represents much more than a means of transportation for many customers.

“At that point, you realize that this is not just a vehicle,” says Drennan. “This is practically an addition to their family.”

Of course, the Delivery Team, which oversees all Challenger and Global deliveries, has had to adapt its offerings due to COVID-19 protocols. While it is still preferable to bring in clients for delivery when it is safe to do so (a process that Bombardier facilitates by working with the Canadian government), if a customer requests that an aircraft be brought to them, the team will do all they can to accommodate.

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“We’d like to continue with that same flexibility in the future, but there are huge advantages to [the customer] coming here for a delivery,” says Marrone. “Here, they have access to all of the expertise and the people that have specifically built their aircraft. It’s impossible to overestimate that value. They can spend an hour with one of our technicians on the shop floor and learn so much about the airplane that they normally wouldn’t.”

An aircraft delivery goes well beyond the Champagne and applause. Both Marrone and Drennan use a step-by-step process to ensure that a customer and their team (from pilot to flight attendant to maintenance director) are fully trained and and knowledgeable on operating all aspects of the business jet.

“Our role is about the evolution—the whole customer experience from the day a client buys a business jet to the day it leaves our facility,” says Marrone. “We give updates on exactly how or when our aircraft is moving to the next position in completions and the key milestones, like its first flight. It all leads up to the very important milestone of when the aircraft is ready for presentation.”

Once the customer inspection of the aircraft has been completed and every last detail meets (or exceeds) expectations, a formal training process begins. This customer-tailored training can take anywhere from a few days (for second-or third-time owners) to 10 days, which is generally the case for a Global aircraft, since they are technologically advanced and have many innovative features. While a customer and crew are in Montreal for an aircraft delivery, it’s

understood that they may still have day-to-day work obligations.

That’s why the delivery facility at Bombardier provides fully equipped offices and conference rooms, and the team organizes gourmet meals to accommodate any dietary restrictions.

“The majority of the time with us is spent in training,” says Drennan. “After inspection, we’ll do test flights, flying with the customer for four to ten hours depending on which aircraft they’ve purchased.

We’ll get the crew on board as well and train them to use the CMS [cabin management system], which includes video and audio.”

Bombardier business jets are equipped with a variety of innovative features and technologies, such as the revolutionary Nuage seating and Soleil lighting systems, so this step is crucial to ensuring a seamless entry into service for each aircraft. After the test flights, training and demos, the last step is for the customer to meet with the Bombardier representatives who will support them and provide additional services to maintain a fully functional aircraft: the warranty department, the initial provisioning team (to purchase parts), and internet suppliers (to arrange in-flight WiFi).

“The crew wants to understand the aircraft so they can deliver the ultimate flight experience that Bombardier aircraft are recognized for—but there’s also an advantage for us in giving them this thorough training,” adds Marrone. “When we show them how to take full advantage of their aircraft, its entry into service is flawless. We make sure that each and every owner or representative leaves here feeling comfortable with their aircraft.”

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Production Resource Group’s Chairman and CEO, Jere Harris, on a new era of entertainment.

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hen Production Resource Group (PRG) Chairman and CEO Jere Harris first started thinking about his future as a young student, his ambitions were far from the family business. He was studying criminal justice and finance, and was considering pursuing a career with the United States Department of Justice accordingly.

And then a serendipitous summer job changed everything.

His family had long been immersed in the theater business and culture: His father’s parents were show managers on Broadway, his mother’s mother was an understudy to the great Irene Dunne, and his childhood next-door neighbor was the legendary Burgess Meredith.

Nonetheless, Harris says his family never put any pressure on him to join the industry. It wasn’t until he started working for a family friend’s scenery shop in the South Bronx, not far from where he grew up in Rockland County, that he fell in love with the behind-the-scenes side of the business.

Since then, Harris’ career has spanned the expanse of the live production industry, which he learned from the literal ground up. When he started, everything was done by hand, from the movement of props to the building of sets. He’s done it all, too: A former certified welder, Harris has held several trade licenses, and considers himself a true craftsman at heart. Still, he muses,

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“You’ve got to use your hands and head to get where the next step is.” It’s this realization that has paved the way for PRG to pioneer some of the industry’s most transformative innovations over the past 30 years.

One of the big turning points Harris remembers witnessing early on is the integration of technology into theatrical production, when a production of A Chorus Line used computers to manage the show’s lighting in 1975. As he came into his own as a producer in the years that followed, Harris watched the industry revolutionize through digitalization, which he estimates drives about 80 percent of its development today. This shift helped him adopt technology from outside sources in order to be an industry leader. “It’s about being crafty about how to apply technologies that were designed and engineered for other industries into what we do,” he says, noting that being a business of artists works to PRG’s benefit as well: “We’re naturally creative and very accepting of change.”

This mindset gave PRG an early edge as a “one-stop shop that integrates out-of-thebox solutions,” according to Harris, with major productions including Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Broadway’s most technically complex show to date, and EFX at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand, which was the largest-scaled theater installation in the world when it premiered its eight-year run. PRG now spans 62 locations in 28 countries, an omnipresence that—combined with the company’s adaptability—put them in the perfect position to emerge as a global leader once again over the past year as the pandemic unfolded. By staying true to their mission of leveraging technology to connect audiences with content, PRG pivoted seamlessly to employing digital studios, live-streaming events and producing drive-in experiences. The pivot also includes creating three vaccination centers in Berlin.

For Harris, this is indicative of what the company ultimately aims to provide: “Everything we do is about people. Our goal is to entertain and make people feel good.”

Harris is also intent on inventing new ways of presenting entertainment and culture to the world. “We have to adapt to the current situation, improvise, and overcome obstacles.

If you can do that, you can contribute to society and to your employees and the circumstances that you’re in.” With this approach, PRG has surmounted considerable limitations to achieve spectacular feats, including a much-talked-about Super Bowl halftime

ABOVE (From top to bottom): The Weeknd’s tech-enhanced performance at the 2021 Superbowl; The COVID-19 Memorial Ceremony in Washington, DC. OPPOSITE PAGE: Production Resource Group (PRG) Chairman and CEO Jere Harris.

show in which R&B singer The Weeknd took over the 60,000-square-foot Raymond James Stadium. PRG handled the lighting and all related power and networking. For the first time, PRG also supplied cameras and broadcast technology to the event, including a PRG proprietary technology that gave the performance a distinct cinematic look.

Now PRG has taken its commitment one step further, opening a virtual production studio in San Fernando, California. The 4,300-square-foot space is part of PRG’s new digital studio network (19 locations globally and counting) and has extended reality capabilities and offers technologies like Enhanced Environments, used to create hyper-realistic car and train movement on award-winning films like The Irishman and Joker. “People want to see their friends and family and want to be safe together,” Harris says. “What we do gives them the opportunity to enjoy themselves with their mates,” he says. “There is a positive here. It’s moved the timeline on certain technologies. It’s brought people closer together.”

Despite his extraordinary CV and the challenges ahead, Harris considers himself fortunate to be at the helm of this call to action. “I want to see the team and the company make their way through this and be stronger on the other side, and to bring the people that we entertain hope and happiness and make their lives better than they are now.”

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NEW HORIZONS Private aviation trailblazer VistaJet prepares for a bold new chapter in business travel.

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homas Flohr, the Founder and Chairman of VistaJet, believes a “level of nimbleness” has allowed private aviation to weather the COVID-19 pandemic more successfully than the commercial industry. And that agility has a lot to do with not being heavily dependent on load factors: Business jets are able to fly small numbers of passengers from point to point, while commercial airlines need a minimum threshold of travelers to make taking off financially worthwhile.

When it comes to his own company, having a worldwide footprint has also helped. The success of VistaJet’s membership-based, payby-the-hour business model has allowed it to expand from two aircraft in 2004 to a fleet of more than 70—and more than 160 through group company Vista Global which Flohr founded in 2018—serving every corner of the planet. “It’s that global infrastructure that let us recover fast and achieve higher results than a year ago,” says Flohr.

And it was that infrastructure that allowed the company to step up during the first wave of the pandemic, flying executives back to their home countries on an emergency basis, reaching out to embassies to provide seats on “empty legs” and helping medical institutions to transport equipment. “We rescued people from India to Argentina,” he says, “stopping for fuel in Liberia.”

With membership subscriptions up and strong growth in the shift to private aviation—widely perceived as a safer air travel alternative— VistaJet is expanding its reach with the upcoming entry into service of the first of several Global 7500 aircraft from the significant order placed with Bombardier. “It’s an exciting moment,” says Flohr. “This will only happen every 20 years. This is a new, clean-sheet aircraft, and the Global 7500 resolves two main issues from a customer perspective. One, we did a deep-dive analysis with our clients to determine what is important: It was a permanent bedroom—a stateroom for the principal.” The other, explains Flohr, was range. “The Global 7500 has flown over 8,000 nautical miles. It can fly nonstop to almost any destination. That means Southeast Asia to get to anywhere in America. Or the Middle East to West Coast America,” he says.

With four distinct living zones, Nuage seats, Soleil lighting, Kuband internet, a large galley equipped for gourmet cooking, room for six people to dine together and sophisticated cabin circulation and air-purifying technologies, the Global 7500 jet provides a productive yet relaxing environment. “The highly educated client today wants a fabulous experience mirroring the lifestyle they have elsewhere, and I think within the Global 7500 all of that is possible,” says Flohr.

The new planes will feature the same silver-with-a-red-stripe livery as the rest of the VistaJet fleet as the Swiss-born Flohr wanted to avoid the Matterhorn White used on many aircraft exteriors. Another unifying factor is that the entire VistaJet fleet consists of Bombardier aircraft. This enhances the customer experience by offering a consistent level of service. “It ticks all the boxes. The Challenger 350 is the bestselling and best-performing aircraft in that category. The Challenger 650 is still the best large-cabin heavy aircraft, with a range of 4,000 nautical miles. The Global fleet is second to none, and the new flagship is a continuation of this. When I built VistaJet, I looked at low-cost airlines, and they have a maximum of one or two aircraft types. That brings you a lot of efficiencies in pilot licensing, pilot training, parts and service. A great deal of efficiency comes from sticking to one fleet type.”

THIS PAGE: VistaJet Founder and Chairman Thomas Flohr.

OPPOSITE PAGE: The Global 7500 is part of VistaJet's Bombardier-exclusive fleet.

“THE HIGHLY EDUCATED CLIENT TODAY WANTS A FABULOUS EXPERIENCE MIRRORING THE LIFESTYLE THEY HAVE ELSEWHERE.” — Thomas Flohr Founder and Chairman of VistaJet

As VistaJet expands, it is also reducing its carbon footprint. Flohr explains that the company is taking “all routes toward higher sustainability.” One of the first steps taken was offering carbon offsetting to customers. In just the first eight months of 2020, 80 percent of VistaJet members, says Flohr, “took part in offsetting their fuel route use-related carbon emissions.” Fuel-consumption reduction technology allowed the company to reduce fuel use by eight percent per flight.

VistaJet’s next big project involves developing a Private World travel concept for vacations, which takes customers to destinations in safe and luxurious ways. Yet, when it’s time to get back to work, VistaJet is still thinking of putting balance and life into business, which simply can’t be done by video conferences only. “Business is done between human beings,” Flohr says, emphasizing the importance of face time. Fortunately, private aviation is there to connect them.

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MYTHS LEGENDS THE MUSES AND MAGIC BEHIND CHOPARD’S DIVINE RED CARPET COLLECTION OF FINE JEWELRY.

By Elio Iannacci

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“WITH JEWELS LIKE THIS, I DON’T NEED SHOES.”

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t was the quote reprinted, retweeted and reposted around the world, coming directly from the Cannes red carpet. When it was uttered back in 2016—credited to none other than Academy Award-winner Julia Roberts—it brought new meaning to the words “fashion statement.”

Famously showing up to Europe’s most venerated film festival with nary a Louboutin, nor a Manolo or Vuitton stiletto under her ankles, Roberts—who was doing press for her latest film, Money Monster—arrived barefoot. Whether she decided to forego footwear to protest outdated preconceptions of glamour or was simply poking fun at the reportedly strict Cannes dress code (an alleged rule decreed that all women attending festival events had to wear heels), the world took note. To aid her cause célèbre, Roberts brought along a very important co-star to make a point about the value of self-expression: She wore a necklace by Chopard made with diamonds and a 52.76-carat emerald.

This is but one of many zeitgeist-changing moments to which Chopard is linked. Aside from a battalion of boldfaced names who have worn the Red Carpet Collection—talents as diverse as Cate Blanchett, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, Soonam Kapoor, Ziyi Zhang and Catherine Deneuve—Chopard’s connection to cinema and culture has been a long and storied one.

The partnership between Cannes and Chopard developed in 1998, when Caroline Scheufele, Chopard’s co-president and artistic director, was tasked with redesigning the coveted Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded at Cannes. Inspired by the international names and narratives that the festival brought together, Scheufele went on to design and launch Chopard’s very first Red Carpet Collection in Cannes in 2007.

Fourteen years later, Scheufele’s process of creation mirrors Cannes’ internationally motivated mandate: It finds inspiration in every corner of the globe. However, one of her earliest steps in designing with precious and rare materials is actually listening to them.

“High jewelry is about sublimating gemstones,” she says. “I can feel their energy, and I spend time studying them and thinking of various designs.” The stones that make up the Red Carpet Collection’s canon include black opal, sapphires, rubies, white and colored diamonds, pearls and tsavorites. When Chopard’s glamourous ambassadors don each design, the transformation from actresses to goddesses seems imminent. Although a different theme is chosen each year, what never changes is an aesthetic that is as classical and influential in fashion as the Greco-Roman era is to art.

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the route for each collection. “It is important to embody the art of jewelry-making and create emotion, as much for the artisans who handcraft each of these masterpieces as for the people who have the privilege of wearing them.” The designated theme for the current Red Carpet Collection is Nature, a decidedly unpredictable choice that, in Scheufele’s eyes, made all the sense in the world. In the past, Scheufele’s zigzagging across the seven seas fueled her imagination.

The Nature Red Carpet Collection led her to a Wizard of Oz moment, to realize there’s no place like home.

“I have been inspired by nature during my travels around the globe to places such as Asia, the Middle East, India, the Black Forest in Germany and the Swiss Alps. However, there is one place in particular where I never fail to find inspiration: my garden in Switzerland,” she says. Looking at the flourishes of the earth and the many organic motifs in her very own backyard helps Scheufele connect the natural environment to her own practice. For example, the aquilegia plant— which is historically considered a sacred plant by way of the Roman goddess, Venus—with its spurred petals, has become one of Chopard’s most powerful muses. “The specificity of this flower lies in the fact that its five upper petals are very different from its other five inner petals,” she says. From a technical point of view, this brooch proved to be a remarkable challenge for Chopard’s high jewelry workshops.

“Our artisans had to make sure the titanium petals were light enough to be mobile, create a color gradient of settings on the petals to give depth to the central opal,” she says. “We had to find the right balance between fineness and resistance so that the brooch can appear as light as a flower.” The complex work involved with specific pieces can take the Chopard artisans almost a year to make. It’s far from easy to match a vision of intricacy with reality. A pair of “Orchids” earrings from the latest Red Carpet Collection feature incredibly ornate sapphire petals and tsavorite buds, both painstakingly hard to finish yet exquisitely executed. The Collection’s “Ginkgo” earrings and their companion ring—composed of pear-shaped emeralds, tsavorites and yellow sapphires in shades evoking the foliage of this majestic tree— require true masters of the craft, teams who understand the minutiae of the worlds of nature, art and science. No matter the process, Scheufele is adamant that there must be a stimulus that brings the idea from the page to the world stage.

“Everything begins with a story of hands,” she says. “Gems inspire me to draw creations in my sketchbook which later come to life thanks to our highly skilled artisans working in the heart of our high jewelry workshops in Geneva.” It is exactly that visceral connection Scheufele has with precious stones, regardless of the color or cut, that ignites an actual physical response and illicits experimentation. “I always like to push the limits further and play with different gems in size and color to create one-of-a-kind and exceptional pieces,” she adds.

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PAGE 33: Necklace with emeralds (122.49 cts) and diamonds (92.56 cts) in Fairmined-certified ethical 18-carat white gold; earrings in Fairmined-certified ethical 18-carat white gold set with two 14.50 and 13.37-carat pear-shaped emeralds, as well as with beryls (4.3 cts), diamonds (4 cts) and emeralds of various cuts. PAGE 34: Jaguar ring with white and coloured diamonds and black opal.

PAGE 35: Necklace in platinum and titanium set with green beryls (198.46 cts), Paraiba tourmalines (115.37 cts), colored tourmalines (70.94 cts) and diamonds (23.73 cts); earrings set with sapphires (54.67 cts) in titanium. PAGE 36: Floral necklace set with tourmalines (129.19 cts), pink sapphires (28.53 cts), tsavorites (8.77 cts), emeralds (4.54 cts), moonstones (12.40 cts) and diamonds (4.93 cts) in Fairmined-certified ethical 18-carat white gold and titanium. Earrings with sapphires (43.48 cts) and diamonds (2.53 cts) in Fairmined-certified ethical 18-carat white gold.

PAGE 37 (From top to bottom): A master at work in one of Chopard’s ateliers in Geneva; an early sketch of a necklace from Chopard’s Red Carpet Collection; Lupita Nyong’o (left), Julia Roberts (middle) and Sonam Kapoor (right) at Cannes wearing pieces from Chopard’s Red Carpet Collection.

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Those who are lucky enough to peek inside the Haute Joaillerie Chopard in Geneva, the point of convergence for the otherworldly designs and cutting edge technologies behind Chopard’s high jewelry collections, will witness the type of meticulousness involved in every piece. Scheufele views the workshops as “the heart and soul of Chopard” and describes them as a place “where our artisans reveal the secret of their know-how and the exceptional dimension of both their artistic approach and genius.” Among those who are in the cast of roles that mold, inform and perfect each piece are sculptor-jewelers (hand-shaping wax prototypes and casting models), lapidaries (stone cutters and engravers), gem-setters (specializing in fixing precious gems into jewelry via a range of setting and carving techniques), and polishers (who give minerals and metals their brilliance). Their job, combined, says Scheufele, is to “exceed expectations and push the limits of what is possible in jewelry design.”

Part of that evolution has been acknowledging what it takes to be an eco-conscious business. Five years after launching the Journey to Sustainable Luxury, a program committed to responsible sourcing and helping the people in the supply chain who are too often overlooked, Chopard reached a special milestone in 2018 by becoming the first watch and jewelry Maison to commit to using 100 percent ethical gold for the production of all their watch and jewelry pieces. “We started by forging a philanthropic relationship with the Alliance for Responsible Mining [ARM] to directly support and enable gold mining communities to achieve Fairmined certification and provide training, social welfare and environmental support.” Chopard was also among the first to create several watch and jewelry lines crafted from responsibly sourced materials, the first being the High Jewelry Green Carpet Collection unveiled during the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. “I was particularly touched when Marion Cotillard wore our very first Green Carpet Collection piece on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival in 2013,” Scheufele says. “Much like the art one hangs in their home, jewelry is an extension of one’s style, taste, appreciation for beauty and the unique know-how and craftsmanship that goes into each and every piece. The jewelry piece that someone chooses to accessorize with sends a message of love, joy and happiness, and is truly a unique voice of expression.”

The evolution of that expression is something Chopard is profoundly interested in. While nothing can be revealed yet about the next collection, other than Scheufele hinting that it will be “74 pieces and it will be full of color,” one thing is for certain: Chopard is listening to its next generation of buyers with open ears.

The importance of sustainability is top of mind for a number of collectors of high jewelry. It’s something Scheufele is aware of, stating “to know your piece has been handcrafted with sustainable materials in an ethical way is important… we believe that our clients want to know how raw materials have been sourced.” This way of thinking is something Scheufele says will help guide the future of the high jewelry industry. “The next wave of clients push us to innovate,” she says. “They value the journey and the stories that are birthed with each piece. This is what I often call the ultimate luxury.”

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Eye in the Sky A bold new hotel concept reigns above South Africa’s vast ecosystem.

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With the debut of Kruger Shalati in mid-December—a hotel that sleeps guests in vintage train carriages on that very same bridge above the Sabie River—visitors can now feel the heartbeat of South Africa’s famed national park from a truly unique perch. “It’s an absolutely fabulous project—I take my hat off for the vision that they had,” says Stevens. “Because the bridge is just lying there, it has a superb view of the park.” Independent hotelier Kruger Shalati purchased train carriages from the 1950s and completely refurbished them to recreate an atmosphere straight out of an Agatha Christie novel. The result is a 31-room masterpiece, with 24 glass-walled carriage rooms on the bridge and 7 Bridge House rooms on land (scheduled to open in 2022) that give you a completely visceral experience. High above the riverbanks in a tree-top-like setting is an expansive deck with a pool that resembles a chic swimming hole.

From the truss bridge, you can marvel at the variety of wildlife below, from hippos to buffalos and elephants to impalas. According to Judiet Barnes, one of the executive managers of the hotel, this huge undertaking required the cooperation of the Park, the South African engineering company, Mech Mobility, and the interior design firm, HK Studio.

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OPPOSITE: The king of the jungle in Kruger National Park, which holds more than 145 species within its borders.

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he remarkable brilliance of lion eyes staring at you.

The thrill of witnessing a leopard kill its prey. The elegant dance of antelopes leaping over spear grass.

These are just some of the vignettes that visitors retain from their visit to Kruger National Park, a legendary area that sprawls over 7,500 square miles (19,000 square kilometers) in South Africa—nearly as large as New Jersey. This park has a mythical quality to it. Visitors come here in search of not only the Big Five animals, but also rare antelopes like sable, grey rhebok and hartebeest, and more than 500 bird species that stun observers with their splendor.

It is here that the South African Railways built a train bridge in the 1890s, located near the eastern outpost of Skukuza. That train line (now defunct) played a crucial role in the development of Kruger National Park. It opened up as a tourism rail formally in 1923, and Kruger National Park opened its gates to visitors in 1927. As part of visitors’ journey along the Selati line, the train would park overnight on a truss bridge above the Sabie River so travelers could observe the majesty of wildlife at a leisurely pace.

The seventies brought the area great change. “Because of increased mining just outside the park, the Selati bridge was abandoned in 1973 in favor of a new line,” says Joep Stevens, who has researched developments in Kruger National Park as an employee of the South African National Parks commission. After a new line around the park opened in 1970, the bridge fell into disuse like the lost city in The Jungle Book.

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While the term “local” has been used—almost to excess—by luxury hoteliers for decades, co-creative director and lead designer Andrea Kleinloog says that Kruger Shalati differs in its approach from other safari lodges in Kruger National Park. “It’s the closest I’ve gotten to designing a non-touristy tourist destination.” Kleinloog hit the ground running after being given the brief by the client in January 2020.

With no two rooms that look alike, it is easy to get lost in the details that comprise these vintage dwellings, much like immersing oneself in a painting. “It is visually stunning—a deeply sophisticated [interpretation] of layered African narratives from the wood and cushions,” she adds. It was also a conscious choice to avoid misappropriation of culture, so around every corner there’s a surprising, refreshing element: It is breathtaking on a grand scale while being deeply true to its South African roots.

“This hotel is saying: Here is our art, our music, and this is our food and you’re welcome to come and be a part of it,” notes Kleinloog.

“WITH MANY HANDS CONTRIBUTING IN THIS COLLECTIVE OF LOCAL TALENT, IT’S HARD TO WANDER INTO ANY ROOM AND NOT REFLECT UPON SOUTH AFRICAN CULTURE.”

While many hotels commission artwork as one-off pieces, Shalati wanted to have an authentic relationship with artisans. “They were not short-lived collaborations,” says Kleinloog . “We were involved in a twoyear process.” The designers insisted that the hotel be reflective of national pride. Yet the design implementation was more difficult than Kleinloog expected, not to mention the stumbling block of a global pandemic. Yet beyond the stressful circumstances, the artists thrived and surpassed expectations by thinking local. In the main dining area, a South African artisan took a rake and scraped the walls using a technique found in nearby homes. The dining area has walls clad with totems made of leadwood. With so many hands contributing in this conscious collective of local talent, it would be hard to wander into any room and not pause to reflect upon local culture. “We wanted a young South African to be proud to take an Instagram photo in this place,” says Kleinloog.

THIS PAGE: A peek into a room at the Kruger Shalati, which features the work of local artisans.

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Every room has a unique art piece done by visual artist Sakhile Cebekhulu, who Barnes, an avid art collector, says is “making waves across the country.” Cebekhulu, founder of the design firm StudioS, typically explores the tensions between growing up as a city boy in Johannesburg and his ancient Zulu ancestry. For Shalati, he created 22 pieces of art based on photographs of the Sabie River and the Selati bridge, each with a unique vantage point.

He also hand-embroidered each photograph. (Embroidery plays a prominent role in Zulu attire: It adorns the striking headdress, known as isicholo, worn by married Zulu women.) Comfortable pale woven chairs were created by Alifurn, a family-owned company that produces its furniture entirely in Ballito, South Africa. “This strand of employing locals is something that weaves throughout the project,” says Kleinloog. Draped softly over beds and chairs are blankets that reflect Basotho culture. These blankets were done by Bonolo Helen Chepape, a young graphic designer from Rustenburg, who started the well-known homeware brand, Lulasclan.

“The Xhosa and Swahili cultures had a belief that when a couple gets married, the husband wraps his new wife in a blanket, and she presents her husband with a blanket to show that she is committed to him. It’s unique to our part of the world.” Chepape took inspiration from the train’s surroundings and blended those colors into her pieces.

South African interior designer Itumeleng Makgakga used a linear technique to capture details that portray African life with a unique sense of pride and reverence. Her illustrations for Shalati embrace and celebrate South African culture by portraying past archytpes of beauty and art with a throroughly modern lens. This is not your typical “pretty vase positioned on a marble table” design: Shalati begs the guest to look deeper.

Location, Location, Location

Since the Shalati is in the thick of the park and the surrounding area is Big Five country, there’s a hub of sightseeing and shopping at Skukuza.

“In this sense, I’d call Shalati more of a semi-urban destination,” says Barnes. Visitors can enjoy fine dining or semi-fine dining as they choose, with meals prepared by Andrew Atkinson—previously the head chef of the Michelangelo Hotel in Rosebank, Johannesburg. “He’s creating a bespoke menu that has a little bit of fusion to manage global expectations,” says Barnes. With a seating capacity of 66 people and an ever-evolving menu, the restaurant is the culinary nerve center of the hotel (rates include all meals, house drinks and two game drives daily), only guests of the hotel can dine here.

What initially seemed like a dream became an unforgettable reality when the hotel opened its doors on December 14. “It originally seemed like a simple project, but it took a while to get the look and feel just right,” says Barnes. The result is very much like a Centenary diamond, polished to the nines on all facets. More than anything, the hotel’s opening during a time of great adversity—be sure to check gov.za before planning your trip—symbolizes the resilience of the luxury industry and its commitment to the local cultural tradition, and creates a modern hallmark of historical preservation. With easy access through the Paul Kruger Gate about 8.5 miles (13.5 kilometers) away, Barnes reminds us that it is far from a zoo. “We often see leopard, elephants, buffalo just about daily. The entrance to the bridge is fenced in, and animals roam freely underneath so every living creature is comfortable.”

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WITH ITS NATURAL GR ANDEUR AND SERENE BEAUTY, NEW ZEALAND’S SOUTH ISLAND CAPTIVATES AT EVERY TURN.

By Ellen Himelfarb — Photographs by Bénédicte Lassalle

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he idyllic landscape of New Zealand’s South Island dates back to the last Ice Age. It is also a mere five years old.

When a 7.8 earthquake slammed the majestic seaside region of Kaikoura and its surrounds in 2016, the geography was forever changed. But when the dust cleared, locals discovered something to cheer. Landslides from the steep hills flanking the Hapuku River formed natural dams in the water, creating crystalline lakes amid the rolling green. The largest swirls blue and green like a glacial lake in the Alps.

This phenomenon is just one of the superlative features of Kaikoura.

The South Island’s northeastern coast also prides itself on top-rate crustaceans (the Māori kaikoura translates to “eat crayfish”), year-round whale-sightings and the coveted surfing break Mangamaunu. But it’s a phenomenon not to be missed, despite its isolated position. Or because of it. I learn about this new-ancient land from Emile Van der Linde, who runs Hapuku Lodge, a property of preternatural beauty cradled by the Hapuku River and the untamed Pacific coast. Van der Linde and his team have the leading helicopter pilots on speed-dial, to whisk you there along the meandering line of the river for a picnic lunch after a hike around Mount Fyffe.

Hapuku Lodge is the closest you’ll get in Kaikoura to the trifecta of mountain, river and sea. It’s hard to know what will leap out at you first when you turn off the coastal highway into its 500 wild acres. Will it be the native ginkgo and pohutukawa trees and the cascading ferns reintroduced to the landscape over decades? Or perhaps the chattering bellbirds and piwakawakas lured into the garden’s embrace. Getting here is like a slow seduction. “It just captures you,” says Van der Linde.

Hapuku is the discerning traveller’s base for experiencing the spectacular peaks and dips of New Zealand’s South Island, yet the lodge itself is an attraction. Try to dispute the existence of intelligent design in this physical Eden, spoiled with views of the Pacific in one direction and snow-capped Fyffe in the other. It’s not easy. “Seclusion” doesn’t come close to describing this corner of one of the most remote islands on earth.

“Most of our guests arrive and then disappear until dinner,” says Van der Linde. Fair enough. More than any other lodge in the region, Hapuku has mastered what Kiwis call manaakitanga, the art of hospitality. Its most-wanted rooms are the two- and four-person treehouses, designed in recycled timber by the architect-owners, furnished with South Island craft and visited by flamboyant fantails and kingfishers. Each is hoisted above the tree canopy, so every window looks to Kaikoura Beach and the snowy peaks. “Depending on the season,” says Van der Linde, “you can sit by the fireplace with a glass of wine and gaze out at the mountains, or stand in the shower overlooking olive groves to the ocean.”

Tucked behind exotic flora are the heated outdoor pool and spa, lounge and dining terraces with deer roaming beyond. The menus change day to day, but you’re never deprived of whole grilled rock lobster or greenlipped mussels, paired with Waipara pinots and chardonnays aged a few miles south. “For the first days,” says Van der Linde, “guests don’t want to leave the property.”

Yet when you’ve flown this far, leave the roost you must. Walk or drive past lavender fields and llama farms to a ragged coast where a dozen breeds of Albatross soar overhead. You’ll soon reach Kaikoura proper, gateway to the culture of the Māori, descendants of the first pioneer from the Pacific Islands. The locals you meet here—and you will meet them before long—welcome you with the vernacular kia ora, greet you noseto-nose, then direct you to the most spiritual spot in town: Point Kean. To get there, follow the Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway to the rocky outcropping where fur seals flop when they’re not breeding on the reef offshore.

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“SECLUSION” DOESN’T COME CLOSE TO DESCRIBING THIS CORNER OF ONE OF THE MOST REMOTE ISLANDS ON EARTH.

Stay here a while, breathe in the sea, and then jump in. Up the coastal road, Dolphin Encounter leads boat tours in the pristine habitat of the dusky dolphin, a sleek, friendly species native to Kaikoura. Slip into the sea and swim as part of a dusky dolphin pod. The buzz you’ll get is nose to nose with a humpback sighting with Whale Watch Kaikoura, further up the beach. Their next-level boat tours guarantee drama— giant sperm whales and humpbacks leaping in awesome arcs over the water. Still, Van der Linde reckons you’ll do even better by helicopter.

The grandeur of every exploit is something you never get used to in the South Island, because the setting changes constantly. Driving south, the highways twist around mountains, only to pull apart suddenly and reveal a turquoise lake. Then they disappear altogether in exchange for miles of savannah, yielding to grasslands and row upon row of vineyard. If wine is your fancy, though, you’d best steer north to Blenheim, the riverbank capital of New Zealand’s Marlborough wine region. New Zealand claims more than 700 wineries today, yet Marlborough’s tend to edge out the others.

Nautilus Estate, a low-slung contemporary manor on the rural outskirts of the Marlborough wine trail, has been producing wine for decades. It’s especially unique for having twin wineries on site— one for its world-class whites, using hydraulic tipping tanks and pneumatic presses, and one for pinot noir, built so the grapes travel through the winemaking steps by gravity. The processes reduce the carbon footprint, and make better wines.

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ABOVE (From top to bottom): Sainte Solange Chapel, a charming tasting room, located in the heart of the Clos Henri Vineyard; A locally-grown salad from the Hapuku Lodge, made from New Zealand’s award-winning soft cheeses and olive oil.

“The facility is as gentle as possible on the pinot grape—a complex and sometimes infuriating variety,” says Clive Jones, the estate’s head winemaker. “We’ve deliberately controlled that growth rather than ride the euphoric wave that was created when Marlborough took the world by storm.” No need to take his word for it. Spend an afternoon at the bar or an outdoor table with a view to the vines, sampling the selections of the day over platters of local cheese.

Another must is visiting the Clos Henri Vineyard. Less than a two-hour drive from the Hapuku Lodge, this estate is the result of ten generations of the Bourgeois family using French and new world winemaking techniques. A sample of Pinot Noir is a poetic experience here, as visitors can sip vintages within a refurbished Chapel, which overlooks manicured vines.

Follow your wine tasting by very carefully traveling the 3.5-mile (6-kilometer) distance to Arbour for an elegant garden-side dinner of community-sourced dishes styled like modernist art—the kind of neighbourhood place where each lamb was known by name. Liz Buttimore, who set up Arbour with chef Bradley Hornby six years ago, is the tender-loving presence in the calming bleached-wood dining room. “We like to feel we are fine dining with a hug from Grandma,” she says. The wine list is long, covering the gamut of Nautilus wines, excellent Te Whare Ra Rieslings and Rockferry sparkling whites. The food is, in Buttimore’s words, insane. “Our seafood is sustainable to the point that our butterfish is speared by one guy and our Hapuka is pulled in on a hand line.” For minimum disturbance from other guests, book on a Tuesday, when the restaurant opens for private dining only.

From central Blenheim, you can board a Coastal Pacific train southward, hugging the beach so closely, you’re practically hovering above the ocean. Some journey as far as the pretty gold rush city of Christchurch for the flight onward, but there are more superlatives still to be had. For a proper goodbye from the island, hop the Interislander Ferry through Queen Charlotte Sound, a fjord-like passage through the highlands of the ragged coast. You’ll be making the world’s most dramatic exit in a spectrum of greens and blues. As if the idea of leaving New Zealand at all were not quite dramatic enough.

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October 27, 2020

Australian Expansion

Bombardier announced the development of a 50,000-square-foot service center in Melbourne, Australia. This new facility will expand the customer support footprint in Asia-Pacific by providing maintenance, repair and overhaul services on all Bombardier business aircraft models. The center will also offer a parts depot and an in-house fixed base operation to serve clients of Australia, which continues to be an important market (more than half of the 168 Australian business aircraft are Bombardier models). “By adding specialized know-how and greater capacity to support more aircraft in this key location, we are providing our customers even more reasons to bring their jets home,” said Jean-Christophe Gallagher, Executive Vice President, Services and Support, and Corporate Strategy, Bombardier Aviation.

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February 11, 2021

Elevated Upgrades

With Bombardier’s Learjet 40 and Learjet 45 RACER program, owners can breathe new life into their aircraft with refurbishment, avionics, connectivity and engine updates, turning back the clock on your aircraft by up to 5 years. The program includes both interior refurbishments and exterior enhancements such as new seat upholstery, new window shades, exterior lighting and exterior paint. An avionics upgrade means elevated performance, including improved situational awareness and enhanced safety features. Aircraft owners can even upgrade their in-flight internet with a connectivity upgrade.

January 11, 2021

Award-Winning Duo

Aviation International News (AIN) recently announced the winners for the Top Flight Awards—a series of distinctions which recognize eminent groundbreakers that are leading today’s business aviation industry. Bombardier’s Global 5500 and Global 6500 were awarded top honors in the New Jet category, an accolade which aims to identify creativity and innovation in design and technology as well as quality and passion in business aviation services and people. AIN’s strict guidelines of ethics were conscientiously utilized when choosing frontrunners for each award.

January 7, 2021

Lending Our Wings

Bombardier is proud to be a partner of Corporate Angel Network, a nonprofit organization that arranges free flights for cancer patients traveling to and from treatment by making use of empty seats on business aircraft. Since 1981, Corporate Angel Network (Corpangelnetwork.org) has handled the logistics of more than 64,000 humanitarian flights, helping more than 250 patients every month. Shown here are 10-year-old Evan and his mother outside a Global 6500 aircraft. They were transported from Southern California, where he received treatment, to their home in the eastern United States.

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Winning Combination

Aviation Apprenticeship

As a partner of NASCAR’s ThorSport Racing team, Bombardier was proudly represented on the No. 99 Toyota Tundra of two-time winning driver Ben Rhodes at the Daytona International Speedway in February 2021. The partnership included truck livery, at-track activation, as well as social and digital presence throughout the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, in which Rhodes swept an amazing two-race stop.

Bombardier and ThorSport also made use of the fixed-base operators around the NASCAR schedule to demonstrate product capabilities for potential customers.

Bombardier’s apprenticeship training program at Texas State Technical College (TSTC) in Red Oak, Texas, allows talented students to gain aviation experience at no cost via industry-tailored modules, experienced instructors and high-tech equipment. Initially launched in December 2019, the two-year program recently received official U.S. Department of Labor accreditation. Upon completion, graduates are offered regional Bombardier employment on the Global 7500 advanced metal wing manufacturing team. Since the program’s launch, it has welcomed more than 55 students, and plans to recruit at least 100 more over the next two years.

Bombardier X Aston Martin

Aston Martin and Bombardier–two iconic brands–have signed a letter of intent to collaborate on custom design services for Bombardier business jets. The collaboration would give customers the opportunity for a truly unique design experience, with the meeting of the top creative minds from the luxury automotive and private jet industries. “Bombardier’s discerning customers have come to expect our products’ signature smooth ride and the company’s no-compromise approach to design, performance and reliability at every level of our portfolio,” said Peter Likoray, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, New Aircraft, Bombardier. “We would be proud to add a new facet to this experience that channels Aston Martin’s distinct aesthetic approach.”

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