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...In 2017, a 37m-high rocket inscribed with Chanel’s double-C logo almost did, rising up like a NASA simulator at the end of its AW17 presentation....
...When I ask Mount Anvil, co-developers with L&Q, how they alighted on the name, they do not offer comment....
...But determined buyers should still be able to hit the purchasing deadline for properties such as a three-bedroom apartment on Vancouver’s West Georgia Street, C$7.398mn (about £4.75mn), or an imposing five-bedroom...
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...“There are no equivalent 100 per cent mortgages in the standard market,” says David Hollingworth of UK mortgage broker L&C....
...Jancis RobinsonAnd what about if a picnic wine for a light red that’s nicely chilled, could be Cinsault, C-I-N-S-A-U-L-T....
...He decorated an apartment in Place Saint-Sulpice in Paris as an homage to the 1924 Marcel L’Herbier film L’Inhumaine, with its sets designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens and Fernand Léger, furniture by Pierre...
...Her mother, Paola (who was born into the family behind the appliance giant Zanussi), raised her at her Milan apartment designed by the legendary architect, decorator and set designer Renzo Mongiardino, whose...
...Molteni&C, molteni.it....
...This was not because lenders predicted a crash in house prices, says David Hollingworth, a director at broker L & C Mortgages, but because offices had been inundated with requests from existing customers...
...Its much-fêted debut perfume, C’est la Vie, was launched in 1992. It stank, in every sense of the word, and sank. “It was disgusting,” said Lacroix....
...At present, mortgage lenders are required to limit the amount they lend above the 4.5 times-salary threshold to 15 per cent, says David Hollingworth of L & C Mortgages....
...There are seven bedrooms, a drawing room with trompe-l’oeil and gilded cornicing, a billiards room and an indoor pool. To the rear of the house is a self-contained cottage....
...Art and photography by Jackie Wullschlager Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, by Carmen C Bambach, Yale University Press RRP£50/Metropolitan Museum of Art RRP$65 A showcase of visual seduction...
...He should have visited Cat Head blues shop, where the owner would have directed him to the homes of Ike Turner, Sam Cooke, Rev C L Franklin and others....
...In our new house we have created a self-contained apartment for him and a suite just for us – a sanctuary to which we can escape together....
...C London, 23-25 Davies Street (020-7399 0500; www.crestaurant.co.uk). George, 87-88 Mount Street (020-7491 4433; www.georgeclub.com)....
...Angel L....
...What A 400 sq metre duplex apartment with three bedrooms and a “grand salon” featuring original wooden wall panelling....
...Inspired by the hip city-centre hotel brands Ace, Mama Shelter and Generator, they devised what the group calls “une nouvelle vision de l’hôtellerie”....
...Doubles from €181 Hotel Brummell, c/Nou de la Rambla 174. Doubles from €94 The Serras, Passeig Colom 9. Doubles from €284 Casa Bonay, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 700....
...Chopard L. U. C Regulator Régulateur is one of watchmaking’s many obfuscating words....
...He was a student at the Sorbonne, he lured a young Dutch woman to his apartment, cut her up and ate her....
...Chanel embodied her own style, epitomising chic in the way she wore her designs and in the double intertwined “C” that became her logo....
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