REVVING UP

Susie Wolff, left, and Charlotte Tilbury are all geared up for the F1 Rolex Belgian GP, 26-28 July. Susie Wolff, wife of the CEO of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team, Toto Wolff, runs the F1 ACADEMY (Charlotte Tilbury’s eponymous beauty brand is the main sponsor). F1, Apple Original Films’ co-production with Formula 1, stars Lewis Hamilton and Brad Pitt.

SYDNEY, SINGAPORE AND BANGKOK

Do the equivalent of an arts degree in three weeks, studying the artisan and other creative skills that make Capella Hotels – Travel and Leisure's best luxury hotel brand 2024 – so special. There’s Aboriginal history in Sydney, heritage and modern Norman Foster in Singapore: above Bangkok’s also Foster, plus the epitomal elegant afternoon tea, on Versace-look porcelain.

BUILDING A BETTER TOMORROW

Led by Founder and outgoing Chairman Robin Hutson, the very-English shabby-chic PIG Hotels (now controlled by very-American KSL Capital Partners) have attained B Corp sustainability certification - hotels have working walled gardens. At the original PIG in the New Forest, the detached Pig Sty has a 6-foot-long shower, a log stove and bunk beds for kids.

AQUATIC CHOREOGRAPHY

Those who know Dubai’s iconic sail-like Burj Al-Arab have not seen it all. Its architect, Martin Jochman, is behind the 330-room InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, in a disused quarry. The 1,730 sq ft Chairman’s suite looks out at clifftops, Mr Fisher seafood restaurant has walls of water. One hour from Pudong airport, a few minutes from museums and theme parks and, onsite, four daily water ballets.

SKY MEETS WATER

Singita’s synonymous with superior safaris, and once again, its leader, Luke Bailes, runs ahead of the pack. Singita Milele (‘forever’) is ten minutes from a private jet strip on 350,000 acres on Sasakwa Hill in the Western Corridor of Serengeti. Five ensuite rooms, designer Georgie Pennington. Yoga, spa treatments, Grumeti Fund conservation visits and a memorable infinity pool.

NOTTING HILL CALLING

Gallerist Cristian Contini, left, established Notting Hill-based Cris Contini Contemporary for emerging artists. One’s Endless, fine-art at Cambridge School of Art, now always-masked, always-secretive street art, plus graffiti T-shirt fashion (Karl Lagerfeld) and a Lizzie Vuitton punk portrait. ENDLESS VENEZIA digital reinterpretations of Chanel 5 are at Avani Rio Novo Venice through October.