Luxury Insider

Through our LMH podcast series we look to share our insights into the luxuries we can’t live without and bring into focus the ultimate luxury of health & time spent with family. In these podcasts we speak to luxury tastemakers and experts across the luxury sphere, from investments to health and home. Our series looks to shine a new light on all things luxury in a post pandemic era.

This week Jemma Lester our LMH MD & Founder is speaking to award-winning Australian winemaker Grant Burge about how the Australian wine industry has been dealing with the effects of the pandemic, an insight into the historic Burge family journey in the Barossa Valley and his support of his children Trent and Amelia as 6th generation Burge winemakers.

As the need for outdoor space becomes ever more important in our homes, this week on the Northacre at Home series, Jemma Lester speaks with Andy Sturgeon, internationally renowned Landscape and Garden Designer who has been dedicated to creating dynamic external garden design projects for private, commercial, and international clients since 1988.

Based in Sussex, Andy and his team work on projects across London, the UK and overseas. Andy has won eight RHS Gold medals at Chelsea Flower Show and been awarded the coveted ‘Best in Show’ three times. He is a published author, journalist and broadcaster, a commentator in the international garden design sector and has published several books including Planted, Potted and most recently Big Plans, Small Gardens.

In today’s In Conversation With LMH podcast, MD Jemma chats to Habitat First Group’s Chief Ecologist Dr Phoebe Carter, discussing HFG’s lifelong pursuit of bringing people, ecology and award-winning architecture together in perfect harmony.

With a career spanning over 40 years, Hubie de Burgh is one of the horseracing industry’s most respected bloodstock consultants. Since setting up de Burgh Equine in 2003 his reputation has gone from strength to strength, with a loyal clientele based around the world.

LMH MD Jemma chats to Hubie about the current crisis and how the horseracing industry has adapted, its resilience and how it will pivot into the future of racing.

Today we speak to industry stalwart Michael Squire, founding partner of Squire + Partners. Michael’s eponymous practise has worked on some of the most exciting buildings across the world both commercial and residential, he shares what makes working on No. 1 Palace Street so special and why mixed use developments like The Broadway will be key to the way we live and work post pandemic.

Wellness is the new luxury

This week we talk to celebrated entrepreneur, health and wellness leader, Joe Cross. Joe transformed from being obese and sick with a crippling autoimmune disease to losing weight and feeling his best through a 60 day juice fast which today he calls a “Reboot”. Today Joe inspires others to find a healthy lifestyle through juicing and choosing a plant and vegetable based diet.

Joe shares his tips for kickstarting a healthy lifestyle. How he keeps mentally and physically fit and how he feels post pandemic attitudes have changed the perception of health as a new model of luxury.

Continuing our Northacre at Home series, this week we speak to Simon Edwardson, Head of Sales at Northacre, about a life in prime residential property and Northacre’s latest London developments: The Broadway and No. 1 Palace Street.

LMH founder Jemma Lester speaks to Northacre CEO Niccolò Barattieri di San Pietro. Niccolo, who joined Northacre in 2013 has more than 25 years’ experience within the world of exclusive international real estate. Niccolo also shares his insights into life and property after Covid 19.

We are delighted to welcome Mustafa Kheriba to our “Northacre at Home” podcast series. Mustafa serves as Executive Director of Northacre Limited and is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Group Head of Asset Management of SHUAA Capital PSC. Mustafa is also a board member and Managing Director of Gulf Finance Corporation in the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and is one of the world’s most preeminent international business advisors and investors. Awarded Emerging Markets Real Estate Manager of the Year, Top 50 MENA Fund Managers and UAE Manager of the year, we discuss business post Covid 19, international travel and the international investors enduring love of London

LMH MD Jemma Lester speaks to award-winning London-based luxury interior designer Natalia Miyar. They discuss her heritage, design journey and inspiration behind her collaboration with leading property developer Northacre and their latest development No. 1 Palace Street.