Have you watched The Borgias?

If the answer is no, I am going to make the same recommendation I made years ago: please correct this immediately.

Jeremy Irons being magnificently Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia. François Arnaud stalking through Renaissance Italy as Cesare. Holliday Grainger somehow making Lucrezia look increasingly formidable while wearing enough silk, pearls and embroidered velvet to bankrupt a minor principality.

What more do you need?

The series ran for only three seasons, from 2011 to 2013, and I remain offended by this fact. It was lavish, melodramatic, murderous, occasionally ridiculous and extraordinarily beautiful. In other words, exactly the sort of television I am genetically programmed to enjoy.

Halloween is round the corner and this year we are going Paperless - save the paper with this cool services that ill make your parties unforgettable and you planet footprint at a minimum. Here are some of our absolute favourites!

Can one really decide between the contemporary designs and classical pieces? I for sure can't - and this mix and match is always making me feel so nice. From long chandelier to a modern swing in your living room what is your biggest desire?

From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, new book Abandoned Palaces by Michael Kerrigan contains remarkable pictures of ostentatious buildings that have fallen into ruin.


 General Joseph Howland (1834–86) was born into stupendous wealth in New York, his family having made its fortune in the China trade. He gave much of it away, as a lifelong philanthropist, endowing libraries and hospitals in the vicinity of Beacon, but the estate at Tioronda in New York, pictured, was a present to himself.



 'Dona Chica' was the title popularly given in Palmeira, Portugal, to the local landowner's Brazilian born wife, Francisca Peixoto Rego (1895–1958). Swiss architect Ernst Korrod (1870–1944) was commissioned to create a home appropriate to her prestige and beauty.


 From ancient Roman villas to the French colonial hill station in Cambodia that was one of the final refuges of the Khmer Rouge, the book charts the fascinating decline of what were once the homes and holiday resorts of the most wealthy.

It's never easy giving up those stubborn habits that make you go on the wrong path over and over again. No mater how hard you try when building new habits or building a new paths for yourself you will make the same mistakes. It's not something you do, but what we all rather do. 

The historic Owlwood Estate, which sits on 10 acres of land in the enclave of Holmby Hills, has been inhabited by some of Hollywood's most prominent figures since it was built in the 1930s. The Italian

Renaissance-style property, which neighbors Sunset Boulevard and the Los Angeles Country Club, was designed by architect Robert D. Farquhar, and regularly served as a secluded hideaway for screen legend Marilyn Monroe, who frequented it as a guest of her rumored lover, Joseph Schenck, the founder of 20th Century Fox.

1. Write whatever, whenever for a "minute"

2. Let spelling do the trick

3. Try to reach for the end

This Singapore dream can become yours with a bit of wishful thinking and a  considerable bank account.

But that doesn't mean we can't all dream about it. I've personally become pleasantly impressed with Singapore and it's amazing landscape and even do I don't fully love the modern vibe of architecture, this place is purely mesmerizing.