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...Inside an antique Italian secretaire, its glass-paned doors open, are shelves containing a pair of almond-green milk-glass vases and other hand-blown designs from Murano filled with apricot-coloured peonies...
...I can’t help but think of Beverly’s complaint to her husband in the play Abigail’s Party: “We’re not here to hold conversations, we are here to enjoy ourselves.”...
...Egnazia’s setting and architecture do much of the heavy lifting: attractive traditional Puglian townhouses leading off a central piazza evoke a village, while almond trees, jasmine and even cacti (denuded...
...Apparently it got its name after Ford, sitting in a meeting smelling perfume samples, deemed the concoction of bitter almond, orris root and clary sage, rather, well, f***ing fabulous....
...Dr Jason Diamond, 9400 Brighton Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (+1310-859 9816; www.jasonbdiamond.com). Jen Atkin, www.jenatkin.com....
...You don’t see big billboards in Beverly Hills. They market to people who don’t have money.” I ask him why he thinks companies do that. “Aspiration....
...There was also a plate of almonds – young and very green, with a gelatin-like texture, covered in a praline of toasted almonds....
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