This week esensualliving.com, for the launch of its In Bed With series, indulges in some pillow talk with globetrotting husband-and-wife designer duo Haans Nicholas Mott and Anastasia Khodkina. 

If Hermès represents the beauty of Parisian perfectionism, then Petit h, the house’s fledgling métier offshoot, led by creative visionary Pascale Mussard, is all about the beauty of imperfections.

An antiques dealer by trade, Florence Lopez is also known for her extraordinary sense of interior design, dreaming up unique universes where wall colours, textiles, antique objects and furniture play off each other to create an energy of their own.

“I inherited my 'nose' from my grandmother," says Turin-born Tonatto, who went on to train with master perfumer Hassan in Cairo and with Serge Kalouguine at the Parfumerie Fragonard in Grasse.

Tai Ping, a Hong Kong-based specialist in luxury hand-tufted rugs, till now has remained the preserve of an elite coterie of clients, institutions and palaces, including Buckingham Palace, the White House, and the Royal Palace of Jordan.

“An invisible beauty,” is how Rupert Peter Landendinger, founder of the new luxury fragrance collection RPL Maison, describes scent. “Scents bring elegance to a room. We may have our designer furniture, antiques, objects we love – but it is the scent that brings it all together,” he says.