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03/07/2025

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01/07/2025

Join us for a weekend in the British countryside where an annual garden party invites Porsches from all over the UK to gather in the grounds of Little Easton Manor for . Now in its 4th year, the event began as a charity meet up organised by friends Guy, James and Andy, but it’s since escalated into a summer festival of Porsches that sold out completely this year in a matter of hours.

The cars on display are a joyfully diverse mix and almost everything arrives under its own power. Where one section might boast a grouping of Sonderwunsch specials and a quartet of Carrera GTs, you only need to look over the hedge to find a concours lawn of 986 Boxsters and a lineup of self-modified transaxle cars, with the obligatory Porsche tractor standing by on the off-chance someone needs a tow off the green. As a recipe for British summertime car events, it’s as quintessential as they come.

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01/07/2025

Scenes from Antti Lovag’s astonishing Palais Bulles, the iconic bubble-shaped house on the coast near Cannes that was for years owned by French designer Pierre Cardin. It was originally commissioned however, for industrialist Pierre Bernard, who was a friend of Lovag and wanted to give the Hungarian architect the space to fully realise his concept of ‘habitology’, which proposed that houses should follow organic concepts that put them in harmony with the natural world, not in opposition to them 🌊 • 📸: via

30/06/2025

As a born and bred Londoner, being surrounded by Cayennes kicking up sandy rooster tails and sliding over dunes is surreal; not quite the Hampstead school run. Samir Samy () is well aware of the big Porsche’s rare status as a hardcore terrain explorer.

“Globally, Cayenne off-roading is still niche. It’s growing, but most people see the Cayenne as a luxury city SUV. In the UAE, we’ve taken it to the extreme.”

Though that’s not what Samir set out to do when he moved to Dubai in 2017. “Like many, I was affected by the pandemic and I lost my job. But that moment turned out to be the beginning of something new,” he recalls.

Samir founded Zeus Offroad in 2020, using his own Cayenne as a research platform. Zeus is now the only dedicated VWG off-road specialist in the GCC, with clients shipping their cars to him from every corner of the globe.

“We’re building custom long-travel suspension, reinforcing chassis points, tuning ECUs for better control on loose sand…Cayenne is the only SUV that can give you a sports car smile while riding up a 60-degree sand slope.”

Modified or not, dune bashing tests the Cayennes to their limits, but the pauses in progress are a chance to display a strong sense of community. There’s a big mix of nationalities and professions, united with their common love for the platform - and the desert.

I can tell you first-hand just how capable a Cayenne feels on the sand, having been thrown the keys to Nicky’s Cayenne ‘GT2 Overland Special’ for a stint. Keep your momentum up, throttle down and feel the way the car’s sliding. Don’t fight gravity - you’ll lose - and trust in the Cayennes ability. You’ll go far, and have a blast in the process.

“Just as Land Rovers shaped the early exploration of the region, today’s Cayennes, Land Cruisers and Patrols are continuing that legacy.” Samir says with a sense of pride. “What used to be about utility has now evolved into passion, engineering, and culture; Cayenne is adding a whole new flavor to that tradition.”

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30/06/2025

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Unravel the Type 7 logo-shaped tear strip on the protective shipping box and unveil the striking orange slipcase beneath. Our celebration of five years of Type 7 features five unique artworks from creatives spotlighted within the book are featured on the cover; ’s instantly-recognisable surrealist style features a cat lazily perched on the hood of a Porsche 911, DC Shoes co-founder ’s Joy Division-inspired Porsche 944 awaits its next drive, a 911 rev limiter races towards the redline, ’s heirloom Porsche 356 soaks in the sunset on Mulholland Drive, and a renowned historic Porsche 911 rally car attacks a stage in a historical photograph. Metallic inks and tip-in pages weave through the book, creating an experience as surprising as the stories and rich photography within.

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29/06/2025

“Living in the UAE, we’re surrounded by some of the most stunning desert terrain in the world. The dunes are vast, challenging, and just an hour away from the city.”

Stood atop a dune in boots where the rest of the group are in trainers, Samir Samy looks upon the desert with an air of calm. The Egyptian-born, former business development manager is the leader of this pack of Cayennes, and he’s pushing the venerable SUV into uncharted territory with .

A quick scan of the orange expanse surrounding the group is enough to see that we’re the odd ones out, surrounded by Toyotas, Nissans, Jeeps and Fords. Exploring the sand is engrained in Emirati culture, but a Cayenne isn’t the usual vehicle of choice.

“You show up in a Porsche and people assume you’re either lost or showing off.” Samir says, boyishly. “But once they see you climb dunes with precision and keep up with them - or even lead the group - the narrative shifts.”

All of the Cayennes in the convoy have been fitted with chunky off-road tyres at a minimum, but they’ve all been modified to various levels.

As we stop for some karak chai and breakfast, one stands out among the rest; Samir’s own 955 Cayenne is far removed from when it rolled off the showroom floor, and it’s by far the most capable vehicle of the lot.

Idling with a V8 burble through its modified exhaust, a gutted interior, cut bumpers and a manual gearbox, Samir’s Cayenne isn’t quite as tidy-looking as the others. For good reason; it’s his development vehicle, and it’s built his business into what it is today.

“The VW Touareg was my gateway into the VWG off-road world. It showed me what was possible with German SUVs…eventually, that led me to the Cayenne.” Samir recalls.

“Once I got behind the wheel of my first Cayenne, it changed everything. It handled the dunes better, responded quicker, and carried the Porsche spirit into the desert. One turned into two, then three - each with a different setup, pushing limits in its own way”

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29/06/2025

“When I see women surfing, their attitude is more laid back, less aggressive. They are in harmony with the waves,” Sebastien Zanella () explains.
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As editor of surf/skate journal Desillusion Magazine (), Sebastien is mostly known for his lifestyle photography and films, however, he doesn’t consider himself a photographer, but rather a poet. Born in Cannes, and now based in the historic surf municipality of Seignosse, Zanella’s life is as idyllic as his imagery. His home is a treehouse by the sea and the beach is his studio.
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Zanella’s surf images are not typical of the sport – they are tender, uninhibited, and they are all images of women. “For many years, I was just shooting men. I found it was always about testosterone and having the biggest tricks,” he explains. “But that was not what I loved about the sport. For me, I saw surfing as beauty, it was more about the moments in-between and the lifestyle, than tricks. So I concentrated on documenting that.”⁣

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28/06/2025

In recent years Eric Logan has been undertaking a series of extensions, adaptations, and renovations to his home, adding a weathered steel roof alongside burned black cladding. Additionally, a guest wing was created alongside a garage, which houses a small collection of Porsche models that he has collected in recent years after a childhood obsession; “I’d pick up Road & Track and Car and Driver, and just pour through all of it, especially if there was a Porsche on the cover or a story somewhere…I’m trying to think of a clever Porsche analogy and I’ll probably screw it up,” he jokes.

“I love by G-body car, and so many of them are hot-rodded. As a baseline, that car, that robust analog, kick-ass piece of engineering has been used as a platform for all kinds of personal interpretation. Maybe all the subsequent things we’ve layered onto the home or removed from it…we’ve made a hot rod out of this thing that was ‘the barn’ at some point.”

It’s easy to imagine that if Logan had waited until today to build his home, even on the same plot, it would be remarkably different, and yet, it’s a masterwork nonetheless - though that’s not to say it will ever be complete to him. It marks a change to the works he creates at his office, which eventually, after months of tinkering, have to be signed off and delivered to clients. Instead, with the Logan Pavilion, there remains space - not just in the expansive grounds, but in the ever-shifting philosophy of a true creative’s brain - to tweak, adapt, and extent. Capping off our conversation, I ask Logan if he’ll ever think of the home as complete.

“I think we’ll continue to tinker with it until I’m below the dirt,” he says. “It’s fun just to have a project.”

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28/06/2025

“As a young architect, doing your own house is a big deal. I mean, especially if you’re somebody who’s engaged and trying to think critically about the work and how you respond to a place, and so I don’t think my response was terribly sophisticated. But as it turns out, made a lasting impression on a number of people, and it still fits the environment and it’s worked very well for my family over the 25 years or so that we’ve lived there.” Would Eric Logan () do the same thing today? He’s not so certain, explaining that while the fundamental idea still appeals, there’s a higher concept at work now. “I don’t know if I’m getting more experienced or more sophisticated - probably not sophisticated - but I’m more interested in less literal interpretations of these vernacular forms. We’re trying to make buildings that are more about sculpting spaces and making sculpture in the landscape.”

The home is remarkably simple in form, referencing vernaculars of barns and rural buildings you see everywhere in the American West, but with a level of refinement that can only come from the mind of an architect with a higher ideal. “I think its success really relies on its simplicity, that it turns out a simple rectangle was not only really easy to, well I say easy, easier to build, the approach to reference very simple agrarian structures. It’s essentially just this roof held a loft on tall columns. There are familiar objects in our landscape, hay barns, et cetera, that we’re trying to channel in terms of the form response.”

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27/06/2025

Fresh out of school, architect Eric Logan () undertook a challenge that most designers wait decades for: constructing a home for themselves. For many, this affords an opportunity to explore and show off their design skill with unparalleled clarity, unencumbered from the agony of a client brief: a masterwork of the purest form. For Logan, the circumstances were different.

“My dumb little house,” as he lovingly calls it, was born from limitation. Decades since construction, the lasting interest still baffles him. “It’s odd to me. I mean, I should be flattered, but it’s satisfying that this very simple thing that my wife and I built, that I designed when I was 28, is still resonating with people.”

CLB Architects is one of a handful of leading architectural offices whose work infuses rugged yet distinctive luxury with a truly clear sense of place. Flanked by the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone at their base in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, it’s a location that leaves it impossible not to feel a deep respect for the environment. Yet, a stone’s throw from the town lies some of the United State’s most exclusive skiing, mega-ranches owned by multibillionaires, and an influx of post-covid arrivals who flocked to the area for it’s natural beauty. In that context the home, in its humble stature, feels modest, perhaps relatable in a way a mansion can rarely be.

Here, even finding a plot is an achievement. Only 3% of the land in the county is available for private building. “That really feeds our community character here. There’s a deep appreciation in this place for access to views, wildlife - a respect for wildlife and migration corridors, the seasonal things that happen in the environment.”

“It does feed how we think about disturbing a beautiful piece of land, first of all. And then if we’re asked to disturb a beautiful piece of land, how do we do it respectfully and how do we bring the absolute best out of that experience for whatever we’re doing, whatever kind of building we’re doing?”

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