Claire Adler is a journalist based in London. As well as contributing regularly to Campden FB, she writes for the Financial Times, The Spectator, Hong Kong Tatler, WGSN.com and London based magazines Canary Wharf, The City and IN London. Her work has also appeared in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Economist Intelligent Life, The Guardian, The Daily Mail and Wallpaper*.
Against the background of a flailing economy, third generation jewellers Aaron Basha are bucking the trend. Claire Adler meets president Sasson Basha and finds out how he’s riding the wave in style
James Bond creator Ian Fleming always wore it and Florence Nightingale penned thank-you letters for it. Family-owned Floris’s fragrances give an unapologetically old-fashioned experience discovers Claire Adler
Exhibiting work from Britain’s most illustrious silver dynasties spanning the last two hundred years, the London Silver Vaults shows off the family silver this summer.
Family-owned luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent has a history of offering access to places and experts that are largely inaccessible. Think of an expedition to the South Pole with the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as “the world’s greatest living explorer” Sir Ranulph Fiennes as your guide.
Family tragedy followed by family passion led to the birth of a luxury brand currently taking the world of watches by storm. Claire Adler meets two brothers who abandoned the City of London long before anyone even mumbled the words credit crunch