The world of exclusive living.

The industrial revolution and starving artists have made them possible: elegant city lofts from New York’s Tribeca to Paris’s Trocadéro. After the 19th century’s factories, warehouses, garment and print shops moved out, the artists moved in. Where the bohemians went, their friends and patrons followed.

luxurydefined, the online magazine of Christie’s International Real Estate, presents a new generation of hybrid and all-electric cars They offer a home charge that takes minutes, not hours—and far fewer planet-harming emissions.

Take a disused train composition, a railway bridge that is no longer needed, invite a resourceful architect, look for a financier and the luxury hotel called the Kruger Shalati in South Africa is finished.