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Ø1 Copenhagen Islands and Sydney Lilypad Villas are the new luxury for social distancing The world after coronavirus is shaping up to be one where architects and designers are conceiving of new luxurious spaces for gatherings apart from one another In the first week of March, Reuters used location data gathered from smartphones to show a powerful correlation between income and social distancing. The data gathered across millions of American smartphones by Idaho-based Kochava Collective, a company that helps businesses evaluate the effectiveness of online ads, and analysed by MIT elections lab, showed that wealth was a reliable predictor of the the need to commute. By the end of the month, there was greatly reduced travel within higher income counties and neighbourhoods which implied ability to work from home and stock up enough enough daily essentials to stay at home while in poorer districts, there was greater variety in travel habits, implying little choice i...

THE LUX LIST / BUSINESS OF LUXURY Automakers Tesla, GM and Ford will switch factory lines from cars to ventilators Rather than leave vital production lines unproductive as the globe goes on lockdown, alcohol giant Pernod Ricard and motor companies Tesla, GM and Ford (among others) are joining the fight against the coronavirus Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, targets the lungs and can cause pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome in more severe cases. With close to 320,000 cases around the world, national health systems in the United States, United Kingdom and Italy are being overwhelmed and medical doctors have been given new guidelines to make difficult decisions which coronavirus victims get to live or die as they run out of intensive care beds or ventilators. Potentially, these draconian but necessary measures could see a patient already on a ventilator removed to allow a someone with a greater chance of survival to take their place. As a resul...