David Stewart

The AGEIST Guide to Bubbly: From the Budget to the Spendy, We Have You Covered 'Tis the season to be jolly, which seems like a good moment to ask some of our experts what they like in a sparkling wine. From the sophisticated-over-the-top, I just won in Vegas, to the informed...

Within the AGEIST network, we have some very big thinkers who read a tremendous amount. In fact, there seems to be a relationship between reading and having a big brain, but that is for another day. As our own ability to digest vast quantities of print is finite, we reached...

Last week I had a birthday, 60. Never in my youngster 20s did I ever imagine myself at this age being the way I am today. This age is different now than at any time in human history: more capable, more mobile, more engaged. But it is not 40. Never...

The holidays are coming, and with them a certain level of anxiety about finding the perfect gift for someone who may not need anything. What could be better than a gorgeous art book? But with thousands out there, which ones are best? Which ones would an expert recommend? The big...

There a couple of different flavors of IG feeds. There are the ones that are for letting your friends know what you are up to. Then there are those that are designed for wide audience viewing. Some of the latter group should really be in the former group, and...

This December the 17th, London-based Monocle magazine will be opening a retail store in Los Angeles at PLATFORM in Culver City. The store will sell not only the latest issue of the magazine, but also their curated selection of brands and collaborations. We are big fans of the positive globalist...

Fitness Over Fifty in Four Simple Steps Cover model, celebrity trainer and former pro athlete Owen McKibbin reveals the secrets of how he keeps his clients looking fantastic. We’ve all hit the workout wall as we get older. The willpower to get out of bed and do something (anything!), or to...

The brilliant Sandra Kulli gave me this last week. She had been saving it for 19 years knowing there would, at some point, be a use for it. That alone is remarkable. We had assumed when we started using the Live Fast Die Old tag line, that we had cleverly...

 #1 The Guests We like to think of dinners as casting a small performance for the benefit of the participants. The number should be no less than six or else the conversation could become one-dimensional or hijacked by a particularly insistent guest. The upper limit is determined by your capacity, but...

In the realm of fabulous, Asian-style edition, it’s hard to beat the new Prada outpost of cultural style in Shanghai. In the tradition of fashion houses merging with cultural space — The Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris being the most notable example — this one shines. The base house...