Innholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2021 i Maxim

For much of the 20th century, tequila was known more for shots than mixing. You didn’t savor it; you threw it back. As for mezcal cocktails, well, there were none to speak of. Hell, in the United States market, there was almost no mezcal. And what mezcal there was—that forbidding bottle with the worm in it—wasn’t very good and was little understood by the bartenders who poured it and the few drinkers who ordered it. If tequila was a dare you took up in a bar, and regretted the morning after, mezcal was a double dog dare, a journey into the truly unknown. Tequila’s and mezcal’s reputations today could not be more different. The spirits have enjoyed a complete turnaround in both status and popularity. In the 1920s, when Prohibition…

“Over a century after Henry Royce and Charles Rolls put their first car into production, Rolls-Royce continues to represent the pinnacle of luxury around the world,” Simon Van Booy and Harvey Briggs write in the opening pages of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars: Making a Legend, recently published by ACC Art Books. “It is this passion for continually improving the design, quality and experience of each automobile that allows Rolls-Royce to honor its past without being shackled by it.” The figure who perhaps best embodies the spirit of the two entrepreneurs today is Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, who penned the foreword for the beautifully-illustrated book. “When I had the honor of being appointed Chief Executive Officer of Rolls-Royce in 2010, I assumed management of a company that…

“Our design approach is governed by a playful interaction between beauty and function, intuition and intelligence, proportion and performance,” says Robin de Vries, a senior designer at Dutch studio Vripack which produced the 216-ft. Futura yacht concept. “Because of our holistic experience and approach, we know exactly how to achieve the perfect balance.” Counter-intuitively, he doesn’t prefer to begin with a blank slate. “Carte blanche isn’t actually fun at all,” he explains. “When a client gives me a design brief which asks for a mansion to be incorporated in a single story studio is where my creativity starts to spark.” Futura is a floating mansion to be sure; standout features include a dining table large enough to seat 20, a DJ booth surveying the upper deck observation area, a helipad,…

It took a very rich and determined individual over 20 years and millions of dollars to pull off one of the greatest feats in watch collecting—assembling a full set of four Patek Philippe perpetual calendar ref. 2499 series chronographs, dating from the 1950s through the 1980s. And this season the world’s top horological auction house, Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo, is set to sell them to the highest bidder in one of the most important watch collecting events ever staged. The four impossible-to-obtain Pateks will lead Phillips’ upcoming The Geneva Watch Auction XIII, marking the first time in nearly 20 years that all four series of the ref. 2499 are being offered in a single sale. Aurel Bacs, Phillips’ Senior Consultant and Alex Ghotbi, Head of Watches, Continental…

Comments about Allie Fosheim’s good looks started early when she was growing up in a St. Louis suburb. After a certain age, relatives and friends of the family suggested her mother get the girl in front of a camera. One day, while strolling through the mall, Allie came upon an open-call model casting. Though she had better things to do, she stopped outside just for a look. That’s when Jeff and Mary Clarke, co-founders of Mother Model Management, pounced. “I was 14. I was a late bloomer. So, I was still 5’4”, and I wasn’t even tall enough yet. My mom was like, ‘We think she’s going to be taller.’ So, they decided to sign me and bring me to New York and introduce me to all their agencies. It…

Money. Music. Gasoline. Burnt rubber. Cooked brake-pads. Certain people are attuned to these things; just as others are attuned to color, or sound, or white truffles, or style. And every once in a blue moon the Venn diagram overlaps, all these things converge, and one finds oneself staring down the barrel of iconography. In this realm beasts do roam; and one of the unicorns roaming in this rarefied mist is, and arguably always has been, Aston Martin. From a collaboration of two friends on the cusp of the Great War building racecars in Great Britain grew a national institution, nay a global obsession. Bamford & Martin was incorporated in 1913 and was always about going fast. By the time David Brown acquired it as Aston Martin in 1947, along with…

“LIKE A GUNMETAL JAGUAR WAITING TO JUMP INTO ITS STRIDE” Thundering through the mist from the future, a cyborg arrives clad in a sleek armadillo-like exoskeleton. He arrives on this thing. As if BMW were still cranking out fossil-fueled bikes in 2221. And the “Zillers Thriller” is where it’s at. At least that is what this bike says to me, looking at it at a standstill planted on its bespoke pneumatics. It is like the fantastic lovechild of Terminator, Mad Max, Tron, Blade Runner and The Man In The High Castle. All bedecked in standard-issue Russian army matte grey atop its seamless aluminum curves. What a piece of kit. BMW Motorrad Russia commissioned and paid for it. Dmitry Golubchikov of Zillers Custom Garage in Moscow dreamed it up and built it,…

After wandering into the well-worn pit of indolence and drug abuse as a young man, at 23 years old Michael Chernow discovered both Muay Thai boxing and sobriety. Harnessing his newfound discipline into action, Chernow co-founded the hugely popular Meatball Shop, grew it to a half-dozen restaurants, and then sold it. Almost immediately he launched sustainable seafood eatery Seamore’s, grew and sold that venture too, and is now readying to open his latest culinary experiment, Kreatures of Habit. Through it all the bodybuilder and fitness advocate has utilized his profound belief in health and wellness to blaze a path of his own. Today he tells us how we can, too. You’ve managed to transform your robust restaurant background into becoming an advocate for health and wellness. What the most important…

“This beautiful level of whiskies play a hugely important role, because what they’re doing is bringing depth to the category, as well as intrigue and desirability. At this top level what you’re playing with is rarity and uniqueness,” posits Gordon & MacPhail’s Stephen Rankin from his home in Elgin, Scotland. “In the same way as limited edition Ferraris or Bugattis—why does one need to exist? You can’t drive it on the open road, it goes too fast. But like a car, the difference with this whisky, as opposed to coins or whatever other stock investment, is it is something you can experience, you can drink it.” As Director of Prestige at the esteemed family-owned whisky label, it is literally Rankin’s job to guide the growth and release of their treasured…

There has always been an element of escapism when it comes to ultra-luxury travel. And it has never been more important than in the midst of the global pandemic. A voyage by superyacht, be it privately owned or by charter, is the ultimate escape. Explorer yachts with their increased range also allow for disappearing into untold hedonism, for months at a time, to the most remote destinations on Earth—perhaps to return to a better world. Even prior to the current situation, there proved an uptick in demand for long-range yachts of unparalleled design and comfort. As an alternative to ownership, superyacht and explorer yacht charters allow for completely bespoke experiences, catering to every possible whim. Small wonder the affluent increasingly resort to life aboard their own private lido deck, skirting…

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