Remarkable Living

Remarkable Living puts the focus on lifestyle visionaries who create unique experiences that matter. How these great thinkers, craftsmen, chefs and savvy collectors are setting new, purpose-driven trends.

Remarkable Living returns with a new series, putting the focus on lifestyle visionaries. The 10-parter features design and lifestyle mavericks across the globe, with 40 stories in gastronomy, rare craftsmen, unique destinations and an exclusive peek into the lives of society's savvy collectors. Each half-hour episode features four stories, taking viewers on a journey across Asia and Europe. The fascinating personalities include award-winning Portuguese chef, Jose Avillez, the first female Thai winemaker, a Japanese knife craftsman, a Taiwanese bespoke leather maker, Turkish sisters creating art with scarves. An exciting strand this season are the personalities who have an eye on sustainability while honouring tradition, like zero-carbon footprint Michelin-starred Thai restaurant, Bolan and Hermes' up-cycling atelier, petit h.

Ep 1 Suits Made For A Prince
24 mins

Watch how a Thai designer infuses jewellery with perfume, a Turkish chef uses food to nourish the soul, a Portuguese tailor who suited Prince Charles and a 43,000sqft home as a Grand Prix circuit.

Ep 1 Suits Made For A Prince

Watch how a Thai designer infuses jewellery with perfume, a Turkish chef uses food to nourish the soul, a Portuguese tailor who suited Prince Charles and a 43,000sqft home as a Grand Prix circuit.

Ep 2 Great Big Petit Ideas
24 mins

Enter the world of petit, where unused materials from Hermes workshops are made into whimsical items of fancy. Also, meet Thailand's first female winemaker and a chef who champions Lisbon's seafood.

Ep 2 Great Big Petit Ideas

Enter the world of petit, where unused materials from Hermes workshops are made into whimsical items of fancy. Also, meet Thailand's first female winemaker and a chef who champions Lisbon's seafood.

Ep 3 Happiness Is Thai Chocolate
24 mins

Watch how two lawyers gave up their high-flying jobs to start Bangkok's first bean-to-bar chocolate cafe and how a Vietnamese designer creates textiles from nuts, wood and cotton.

Ep 3 Happiness Is Thai Chocolate

Watch how two lawyers gave up their high-flying jobs to start Bangkok's first bean-to-bar chocolate cafe and how a Vietnamese designer creates textiles from nuts, wood and cotton.

Ep 4 Where The Wild Things Are
23 mins

Explore northern Kyoto's mountains where a Japanese chef forages daily for fresh produce, Turkish sisters create fantasy worlds on silk scarves and a collector who wears history with her outfits.

Ep 4 Where The Wild Things Are

Explore northern Kyoto's mountains where a Japanese chef forages daily for fresh produce, Turkish sisters create fantasy worlds on silk scarves and a collector who wears history with her outfits.

Ep 5 Keeping Legacies Alive
24 mins

Meet the guardians who keep the tradition of handcrafting Japanese umbrellas, a couple aiming to run a zero-carbon footprint restaurant and a Vietnamese fashion designer who only makes classic outfits

Ep 5 Keeping Legacies Alive

Meet the guardians who keep the tradition of handcrafting Japanese umbrellas, a couple aiming to run a zero-carbon footprint restaurant and a Vietnamese fashion designer who only makes classic outfits

Ep 6 Food Is Pleasure
24 mins

Meet a Singaporean chef redefining Taiwanese cuisine with Nordic influences, a Japanese artisan whose wooden buckets are used by Dom Perignon and a Thai designer creating bespoke selvedge denim wear.

Ep 6 Food Is Pleasure

Meet a Singaporean chef redefining Taiwanese cuisine with Nordic influences, a Japanese artisan whose wooden buckets are used by Dom Perignon and a Thai designer creating bespoke selvedge denim wear.

Ep 7 Heaven On Earth
23 mins

Explore the hot springs in Beitou, Taiwan known for its rich, healing properties, meet the Japanese tempura chef who imagines food as theatre and a Turkish designer who makes jewellery for the stars.

Ep 7 Heaven On Earth

Explore the hot springs in Beitou, Taiwan known for its rich, healing properties, meet the Japanese tempura chef who imagines food as theatre and a Turkish designer who makes jewellery for the stars.

Ep 8 Using The Softest Water
24 mins

Meet a chef who uses the 'softest' water in Kyoto to create Michelin-starred dishes, a leather craftsman in Taiwan hand stitches his products and visit one of Osaka's natural radium hot spring ryokans.

Ep 8 Using The Softest Water

Meet a chef who uses the 'softest' water in Kyoto to create Michelin-starred dishes, a leather craftsman in Taiwan hand stitches his products and visit one of Osaka's natural radium hot spring ryokans.

Ep 9 A Hand Made Tale
24 mins

Meet the last glove maker in Lisbon who hand stitches every pair, a Taiwanese chef who specialises in fine French cuisine and a knife making studio who's been around the past hundred years.

Ep 9 A Hand Made Tale

Meet the last glove maker in Lisbon who hand stitches every pair, a Taiwanese chef who specialises in fine French cuisine and a knife making studio who's been around the past hundred years.

Ep 10 Art Is Life
24 mins

Explore the mecca of contemporary art and architecture in Naoshima, indulge in tasty Turkish sweets at a 240-year-old confectionery and meet a collector who's on a mission to save heritage timepieces.

Ep 10 Art Is Life

Explore the mecca of contemporary art and architecture in Naoshima, indulge in tasty Turkish sweets at a 240-year-old confectionery and meet a collector who's on a mission to save heritage timepieces.

Additional Information

Premiered2019
Genresinfo-ed
Seasons6
Suitable For All Ages