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The Geary House: This 1908 West End Heritage Home Is Vancouver’s Most Extraordinary Restoration

The click of the iron gate is the first thing. Small, deliberate, precise — a sound that signals, even before the path unfolds before you, that what lies ahead belongs to a different order of things entirely. The stone pillars stand as quiet sentinels, and beyond them, framed by mature trees and the deep blue...

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The Vancouver Art Gallery Opens Its Treasure Chest to the City

What do a 19th-century Haida totem pole, an Andy Warhol silkscreen, and a super-8 film shot in 1984 have in common? They all belong to you — or rather, to all of us. And right now, the Vancouver Art Gallery is making that shared inheritance more visible, more alive, and more worth your time than...

ola volo, mural artist, vancouver, montreal, helen siwak, folioyvr, bc, yvr, west coast luxury

Ola Volo: The Woman Who Paints for the World

At the corner of Burrard Street and Melville Avenue in downtown Vancouver, a queen rises. She does not demand attention so much as draw it — the way certain presences do, quietly and then all at once. She is nearly 13 metres tall, crowned and ornamented in the visual language of Central Asian folk tradition,...

LITING CHAN, PARADISE EVENTS INC, LUXURY WEDDING DESIGNER, VANCOUVER, BC, YVR, FOLIOYVR, HELEN SIWAK

Liting Chan: Where Vision Becomes Ceremony

There are event designers who execute a brief, and then there are those who rewrite what a brief can mean. Liting Chan belongs firmly to the second category. As the creative force behind Paradise Events — one of Canada‘s most distinguished luxury event and wedding design studios — Chan has spent a decade building something...

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Marché Mon Pitou: The Warmest Corner of Fairview

Before there was a café, there was a farmers market tent. Before that, a flight and a fruit crumble. And before any of it, there was a grandmother named Gabrielle who moved through a kitchen the way some people move through a room full of friends — with warmth so instinctive it left a mark...

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Spring in Vancouver Calls for Puccini: La Bohème Takes the Stage

Springtime in Vancouver is made for evenings like this. Vancouver Opera is closing its 2025–2026 season with five performances of Giacomo Puccini‘s beloved La Bohème at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and the buzz is entirely justified — it is already the fastest-selling show in Vancouver Opera‘s history, on pace to sell out all five nights....

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Arturo Fuente Chateau Fuente Natural: Named & Returned to the Sea

The clipboard reads: Tortuga — GubGub. Marcas — G123839. Fecha — 15.03.2026. My partner and I named this one — a quiet tribute to a beloved feline companion, written now into the scientific record of a sea turtle’s life. Every turtle in care receives a name before the work begins, each one chosen by a...

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Luxury Travel Recommendations: Off-The-Beaten-Path Destinations For Intentional Exploration

Luxury travel is shifting toward something more thoughtful, more personal, and far more enduring than a checklist of destinations. Today’s most compelling journeys are those that invite travellers to slow down, reconnect, and move with purpose. Rather than following the expected routes, a new category of experiences is emerging, one defined by wellness, cultural depth,...

Paul Stulac Classic Blend Phantom Torpedo: After the Whales

The Baja Expeditions panga has docked. The orange lifejacket is gone. The camp tents sit in a white row along the ridge, quiet and purposeful against the desert scrub and an almost aggressively blue Baja sky. The group has dispersed — back to the bar tent, back to the beach chairs, back to the particular...

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Where Ambition Met Access: The Self-Made Breakfast Tour Lands in Vancouver

Nearly 200 women walked into The Vancouver Club on March 31, and the room did not need a stage call to come alive. The Founders Lounge was already mid-conversation before the programming began — the kind that skips small talk and moves directly into what matters. Brought to Vancouver through a collaboration between Sinclair Creative...