Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The late Denis Durantou of L’Église-Clinet in Pomerol developed Les Cruzelles and La Chenade in the satellite appellation Lalande de Pomerol....
...In bourgeois Paris (think law, finance and the seventh and 16th arrondissements), “vous” remains the norm....
...L’hôtel de Maisons, however, wasn’t the first choice....
...overture I wander through the hotel’s gardens, breathing in eucalyptus and mimosa, in the direction of the “magic tree”, a place of blessing for locals, notable for its vast, twisted spine like a Louise Bourgeois...
..., I totally forget the most basic rules of painting”, Monet explained of the wartime “Water Lilies”: tangled skeins and coils of impasto in fierce colours, precursors to abstraction — yet embodying the bourgeois...
.... £16 Berry Bros & Rudd Ch Lafon 2018 Listrac (14%)Nicely balanced Cru Bourgeois. A good buy for lovers of classic claret....
...Dior wool jacket, £2,000 L’Estrange merino The All Day Shirt, £149 Leica D-Lux 7 camera, £1,170 Louis Vuitton cotton chinos, £640 Luca Faloni leather Weekender bag, £675 Brioni silk tie, £190 Audemars...
...The boogie-woogie piano accompaniment of “Li Tri Re di l’Orienti” is appropriately left-hand-heavy....
...With the area’s good connections — Gare du Nord, Gare de L’Est and République lie on several Metro lines — it also appeals to her friends....
...BOURGEOIS BISTRO SMALL FRENCH COASTAL TOWN — DAY”. The sun arcs beautifully through muslin half-curtains on brass rails....
...offered the young Gormley, who by then had already exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Serpentine Gallery, an exhibition at the gallery he was planning to open in an industrial building on Rue de l’...
...Van der Velden’s designs come to life at an L-shaped bench, with the typical half-moon cut into it enabling the jeweller to work up close. A tool display board hangs above it....
...The floors are larch planks — a hallmark of 18th-century Lombardian bourgeois homes, and an unexpected moment of rustic Gemütlichkeit in an otherwise conspicuously polished whole....
...And my Vanilla Bean is a trompe-l’oeil pastry that you cut into to reveal a variety of textures....
...The Fontaine de l’Observatoire sits astride the 0° meridian from which the world is measured. Except it’s not. That too was a French dream....
...There is social chronicle here: Arsène Houssaye, editor of the Paris magazine L’Artiste, argued that Second Empire women “emancipated themselves, knew the power of money, used it to the hilt . . ....
...Christie’s has secured Yves Klein’s three-metre-wide “Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue, (ANT 124)” (1960), which it will offer for about £24mn on June 28....
...Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet still recalls when René Magritte announced he’d make her a version of his famous painting, L’Empire des Lumières....
...Yet when Mene launched an artist edition in 2019 it was not with him but with Louise Bourgeois, translating her famous Arch of Hysteria and Spider sculptures into pendants....
...Robb, it is the land that defines France’s uniqueness; its intricate patchwork of distinctive pays, each with its own singular history, but also the friction between them and the centralised, primarily bourgeois...
...It might not fit my bourgeois, reactionary preconception of “wine”, but like Galician cider or a complex Amontillado, it’s got everything it needs to stand up to two such staggeringly punchy dishes....
...The L-shaped corner suite has a wraparound terrace and an expanse of twinkling, rippling blue which means that, for my two nights, I barely notice the interior, I just can’t stop looking out....
...Another is Ernest Rouart’s eerie “L’Heure du thé” (c1913): four figures in burnt umber, faces mute white, seated on the same chaise longue as in Renoir’s “Child with Cat” decades before....
...L J Hickman dauntbooks.co.uk The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle “I have such good memories of evenings on book tour there, and of the wonderful people running it.”...
...Historically, Van Cleef & Arpels has eschewed the dangerous and poisonous to focus on more joyful characteristics; in the house’s L’Arche de Noé high-jewellery collection, a tribute to Noah’s Ark, animals...
International Edition