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Travel
My weekend as a monk: a Scottish spiritual retreat
...The next day brings with it lunch with the monks. I am taken along a passageway from the church to the refectory, a whitewashed L-shaped room with limited but tasteful religious decoration....
January 3, 2024
FT GlobetrotterOur insider guide to Vancouver’s best hotels
Chill-out zone: Shangri-La Vancouver
...In line with the hotel franchise’s Asian roots, it was blessed by Buddhist monks with wishes for prosperity. Feng shui principles guided design throughout the site....
October 6, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewTravel books
Steeple Chasing by Peter Ross — tales of a church-crawler
...Touring East Anglia, Ross inspects the roof angels of St Peter’s Upwell, the Fenland church on which Dorothy L Sayers drew for her tantalising 1934 mystery novel of bell-ringers and bigamy, The Nine Tailors...
May 12, 2023
FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
Grass roots: a slice of history at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
...The scoreline “love” is believed to come from the French word l’oeuf for egg, which resembles a zero....
July 9, 2023
The Aesthete
Illustrator Fee Greening: ‘I have delusions of grandeur about paper’
...Or a monk in a tower drawing some illuminated manuscripts....
August 5, 2023
Travel
Postcard from France . . . a big day out for Licques’ turkey farmers
...There I learnt how, in the 17th century, the monks introduced turkeys to the area and taught villagers how to rear them....
December 21, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
The Aesthete
White House party planner Jung Lee talks taste
...She is Buddhist and these beads were given to her by her monk....
April 21, 2023
Travelista
Five grape travel escapes
...Stay: in addition to its restaurant, L’Oliveraie, and its 700 hectares of scenic vineyards, Château Roslane has a 13-room hotel and small spa, so you can sip, dine, hammam, and sleep on the estate....
September 11, 2022
Bryce Elder
Sorrell’s deal-hungry S4 Capital cannot be dismissed as a WPP clone
...In common with previous deals, the Cashmere purchase has been structured as a merger with Media Monks, S4’s main operating division, with no values attached....
September 8, 2021
FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
Rowley Leigh’s fantasy dinner: a Freudian French feast
...Benjamin and Monk talk animatedly and at cross purposes about 12-tone music and 12-bar blues. Beckett has another beer. Nignon produces the bécassines à l’eau de vie promptly....
March 20, 2021
HTSI
What scents do Stella Tennant, Jean Nouvel and India Mahdavi wear?
....” £130 for 50ml EDP; aesop.com Claire Choisne, creative director of Boucheron“My perfume is L’Heure Bleue by Guerlain....
August 26, 2020
Lunch with the FTLunch with the FT: top 10 interviews from 2020
Matthieu Ricard: ‘Eternity is awfully long, especially near the end’
...“Maman, on t’a dit bonjour de l’Écosse.” Lunch does not normally feature prominently in my companion’s routine....
June 5, 2020
HTSI
‘England’s biggest natural playground’: the eternal appeal of the Lakes
...Foodies flock to the buzzy gastropub and Michelin scene, mopping up Asian fare at HRiSHi in Windermere, or farm-to-fork food at Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume and the newish Henrock....
December 4, 2020
ReviewVisual Arts
Fondation Custodia: online window on to a world of rare treasures
...His first purchase, in 1913, was Bartolomeo Cesi’s rapt, trompe l’oeil “A Carthusian Monk”, set as if in a niche....
March 24, 2020
The Aesthete
Brazilian jeweller Silvia Furmanovich on prayer-bead necklaces and the cultural heart of Bali
...Last time I was there, I admired a 1950s Italian vase with a trompe-l’oeil necklace around it. 548 1/2 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014....
May 28, 2019
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
The Aesthete
Designer Claud Cecil Gurney: ‘One needs to be in communion with an animal to remain sane’
...I actually read the French version, which has a prettier title, Le Charme Discret de l’Intestin....
February 26, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
Kenny Barron Quintet: Concentric Circles — ‘a blend of classic and contemporary’
...The set ends with Barron, unaccompanied, merging the angles and vagaries of Thelonious Monk’s “Reflections” into the smoother contours of his own aesthetic....
May 4, 2018
FT SeriesVegan food & drink
Three Chinese vegan recipes from Fuchsia Dunlop
...While most monks live on a simple diet, larger monasteries often have restaurants specialising in elaborate vegetarian dishes, many of which are cunningly designed to replicate the appearance, textures and...
September 21, 2018
Life & Arts
The last Romantic: Rodin in Paris
...At the top of the staircase is the “Monument to Balzac”; clad in a fluid, abstracted monk’s robe, his features vigorously modelled, the writer surveys approaching visitors with a visionary stare....
March 31, 2017
Property sector
Italy prepares ground to escape the next quake
...Each time the monks rebuilt it by hand....
May 15, 2017
Life & Arts
How to wake a sleeping beauty brand
...Instead of producing some sort of shiny high-tech, anti-ageing L’Oréal-ness for Roger&Gallet, the rebrand focused instead on a 300-year-old formula for a natural elixir created by monks — Aqua Mirabilis...
January 13, 2017
Chinese politics & policy
Lancôme accused of giving in to Beijing over Hong Kong singer
...L’Oréal counts China as its second-biggest market by sales....
June 6, 2016
Life & Arts
Paolo Sorrentino: the anti-storyteller
...“L’età dell’oro,” he says softly, “Si, si, si.”...
September 30, 2016
Hedge funds
Collectors who want the public to enjoy their treasures
...They converted a post-medieval four-storey building once owned by Sistercian monks into a 550 sq m museum in Mougins. The site could not be more appropriate....
June 22, 2016
Life & Arts
Heavenly scents
...“I remember one spring morning being at Eglise Saint-Louis-en-l’Île amid a congregation of monks in immaculate white habits, the sunshine streaming through the windows and the scent of clean, burning incense...
December 4, 2015

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