Art, architecture and travel in Geneva

Watches and Wonders 2024: all the highlights from the Geneva event

Discover the watches at the year's biggest watch event, Watches and Wonders

By Hannah Silver Last updated 10 April 24

Christian de Portzamparc’s Dior Geneva flagship store dazzles and flows

Dior’s Geneva flagship by French architect Christian de Portzamparc has a brand new, wavy façade that references the fashion designer's original processes using curves, cuts and light

By Herbert Wright Published 15 March 24

The return of the Geneva Motor Show (to Geneva) as a place for global debuts

The Geneva Motor Show is back. After 2020’s pandemic cancellation and an ‘exported’ event in Qatar in 2023, the organisers of GIMS 2024 had their work cut out to stay relevant. Here are our highlights

By Guy Bird Published 9 March 24

This watch heals itself: is Regenerative Carbon the future of watchmaking?

ID Genève and CompPair reveal the first self-healing watch, using Regenerative Carbon

By Hannah Silver Published 14 December 23

Geneva Watch Days 2023 standouts: from Trilobe to Louis Erard

James Gurney reviews more Geneva Watch Days 2023 standouts, spanning ambitiously avant-garde designs and cool collaborations from brands that share a watch insider’s sensibility

By James Gurney Published 27 September 23

Geneva Watch Days 2023: up close with five new reveals

James Gurney reports from Geneva Watch Days 2023, the mini fair that spans the design-led, the ultra-traditional and the achingly avant-garde

By James Gurney Published 1 September 23

A new gem show entices the cream of contemporary jewellers to Geneva

GemGenève opens its gilded doors in Geneva tomorrow. The brainchild of an elite band of industry dealers and collectors, it promises to be a curated gem of a trade show offering a fresh perspective on today’s high jewellery world – an elite universe where collectors, experts, clients and connoisseurs converge. ‘We want GemGenève to become not only a vibrant trading place, but also an educational experience, a place where, each year, people come to discover new talents, new stories and undiscovered treasures,’ says Ida Faerber of the Faerber family, the renowned antique jewellery experts who lend to museums and galleries across the world and who spurred the show’s creation. From diamond and fine-pearl merchants to antique jewellery dealers and uniquely skilled craftsmen, GemGenève is designed to be as elegant and refined as you’d expect, but with an eye on the best in modern jewellery design too. Here’s our preview of the Contemporary Designer Showcase curated by jewellery historian and author Vivienne Becker:

By Caragh McKay Last updated 27 October 22

Frank Buchwald's Nixie Machine illuminates time at Geneva's MAD Gallery

By Caragh McKay Last updated 25 October 22

Phillips, in association with Bacs & Russo, presents almost 30 timepieces from a private collection

Phillips, in association with Bacs & Russo, presents almost 30 timepieces from a private collection

By Hannah Silver Last updated 21 October 22

The term ‘villa’ does not do Villa du Lac justice

By Ella Marshall Last updated 12 October 22

The Hamlet in Geneva is a showcase of design classics

By Melina Keays Last updated 9 October 22

Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement: radical reflections on surreal times

At Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2021 kicks off with group show ‘A Goodbye Letter, A Love Call, A Wake Up Song’, a full house of subversive moving image commissions

By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated 9 October 22

Geneva Motor Show digital showcase: the technology edit

A digital walkthrough of the best technology due to be shown at Geneva Motor Show 2020 in light of its precautionary cancellation

By Nargess Banks Last updated 7 October 22

Olafur Eliasson reflects on ways of seeing ahead of his latest exhibiton

By Clara Le Fort Last updated 7 September 22

Combs turn artworks at Geneva’s Máti gallery

Designer Aurore Piedigrossi untangles the history of the comb with her Grands Hers collection at Geneva’s Máti gallery

By Mary Cleary Last updated 30 August 22

Erik Dhont goes wild in ‘unstructured’ Geneva garden

This Geneva garden is a spirited balance of art, architecture and nature, courtesy of Belgian landscape architect Erik Dhont for Karin Handlbauer, founder of Galerie Mezzanin

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 14 August 22

Photographer Fabian Oefner tricks the eye at MAD Gallery in Geneva

By Ellen Himelfarb Last updated 4 August 22

La Réserve Genève ups its game with the appointment of a new chef at Le Loti

By Lauren Ho Last updated 26 July 22

Brutalist WHO headquarters extension under construction in Geneva

Visit the construction site of the ongoing extension project at the World Health Organisation headquarters in Geneva, designed by architects Berrel Berrel Kräutler; a project that places the landscape at the forefront, while paying tribute to WHO's modernist, Jean Tschumi-designed, original office building

By Stamatina Kousidi Last updated 29 June 22

Geneva Motor Show digital showcase: the luxury edit

A digital walkthrough of the Geneva Motor Show 2020 in light of its precautionary cancellation

By Jonathan Bell Published 6 March 20

Next-generation concept cars unveiled at Geneva Motor Show 2019

By Guy Bird Published 12 March 19

Sustainability shapes the narrative arc of Geneva Motor Show 2019

By Nargess Banks Published 11 March 19

The best new cars launched at Geneva Motor Show 2018

By Nargess Banks Published 13 March 18

7 showstopping concept cars at Geneva Motor Show 2018

By Guy Bird Published 13 March 18