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...Martin Kuczmarski, who owns the place, was at Soho House for more than a decade....
...The Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel has been a Tinseltown fixture since its doors opened in 1941, so is an appropriate place for lunch with Michael Douglas....
...“People told me I was crazy, that we’d never be able to attract the foot traffic we’d need....
...He once hid in Dean Martin’s dressing room, just to photograph him in those fleeting moments before he went on stage....
...But the streamers were still more Silicon Valley than Beverly Hills....
...We received government funding for R&D and toward building this pilot plant....
...“I’d never been to the US before,” they say, of that initial journey west, “but even as a kid I wanted to see the world....
...To coincide with Martin Wolf’s new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, join Martin and other thought leaders online for a subscriber-exclusive event on January 31. Register for free here....
...Car doors are noiselessly opened by smooth staff in preppy seersucker jackets and white trainers, who weave between the Aston Martins and Bugattis....
...I am also a fan of the single-vineyard, colour-coded bottlings of dry Rieslings from Martin Tesch in the Nahe region, but these can be devilishly difficult to track down outside Germany....
...“You’d lose all your staff, you’d lose a lot of your guests and the cost of the loss of sales for five years would have been horrendous.”...
...Scribble & Daub’s Caroline Kent has recently launched a collection of customisable place settings and menus that are letterpressed, then hand-painted in vivid Dr Ph Martin’s inks – the preferred choice of...
...CR Km 5, Route d’Amizmiz, 40160; selman-marrakech.com...
...Marc Jacobs, At Lash’d mascara, £25, harveynichols.com Marc Jacobs’s new longwear curling mascara avoids clogging thanks to its clever wavy-bristled wand, which coats each lash evenly with a lightweight...
...I think back on the role models of my childhood: Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, Eartha Kitt....
...Charles is currently working with architect Howard Backen on the Beverly Hills home of Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher – a project that’s nearing completion....
...A peculiar non-alcoholic sparkling wine made from apples, it is a favourite of Commerzbank boss Martin Zielke (above left). It is Frankfurt after all....
...the coast up to Cap Martin....
...If I had to limit my shopping to one neighbourhood in one city, I’d choose Soho in London....
...“It’s tough sledging,” said Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive, who campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU....
...Sea Lovers, by Valerie Martin, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£8.99/Nan A Talese, RRP$25.95 Orange Prize-winning author Martin was raised in New Orleans, and many of the unusual 12 stories in this collection are set...
...“We’d play and then we’d have lunch or dinner and I would find myself in the middle of a conversation about Latin America or Soviet policy,” he recalls....
...With Julius Rudel providing enlightened leadership, both administrative and musical, and with such extraordinary artists as Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle enlivening such disparate challenges as Handel...
...“This compost improves farmers’ yield, helps water retention and rebalances the PH ratio of the soil....
...Paul, its Martin Luther, and latterly, its Rasputin in challenging the orthodoxy....
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