Hints and tips:
...V-Tex solves this problem in a chest freezer-size unit that perfectly chills cans in three to five minutes and wine bottles in five to seven....
...An artist whose work I would collect if I could is Maxfield Parrish, an American painter who worked in the first half of the 20th century....
...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...Because the one thing the papers will seize on is you drinking champagne in a hospitality tent while a crisis is brewing. Look at poor Sarah Bentley at Thames Water....
...EuroCave’s blingy new V-Champ-L (£10,999) model features a lazy Susan, whose bottle supports are clad in champagne-coloured leather, for showcasing prestige cuvées....
...It’s the holiday season in Moscow, where the city has put up symbols of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine outside the entrance to Gorky Park: the Latin letters Z, V and O in throbbing neon, looming over...
...“The last car I bought, just to put things in perspective, was a Mercedes V-Class, to put all the kids and the dog in it.” Our main course gone, Collardi asks if we can see the dessert menu....
...Frédéric Panaïotis, Ruinart champagne’s chef de caveLe Monde sans Fin by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain A graphic novel about the finite resources of the earth....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Redman’s job, as the V&A’s senior conservator of metals in the collections care and access department for the last three years, is to decide what to do — or not to do — to help preserve the life of these...
...Champagne remains the bestseller – the bar gets through 100 bottles a day – but cocktails are much improved....
...If I think they’re pieces that are worthy of an archive, I’ll donate them to the Powerhouse Museum, which is our version of the V&A....
...Yet Merckx comes out in his jeans and V-neck jumper to wave us off. There is a genuine smile on his face as we roll into a downpour....
...A lunch visitor once found himself sitting between the Queen and her mother, who was enjoying her favourite tipple of vintage champagne....
...Expect classic tableware with Baccarat crystal and a champagne trolley offering varieties by the glass that you’d normally only see by the bottle....
...They are made with vivid stems of rhubarb, pink as love-flushed cheeks, and should give your V-Day meal a very happy ending....
...The celebratory label – which bears a “V” for victory – also marks the first in Mouton Rothschild’s famous artist- label series....
...Pre-recorded videos and live panel discussions with museums including the V&A, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Museum of Art will also feature....
...There was also the “pretty scary moment in 2014” when they suspended a revolving metal, mirrored installation the length of a Boeing 737-700 for BMW in London’s V&A Museum....
...(FT) Jay-Z’s hip-hop path to luxury influence It has been another busy week for the musician and entrepreneur, starting with an LVMH deal to expand his Armand de Brignac champagne globally....
...They are so reckless that as soon as they make the most expensive purchase of their lives, they smash a bottle of champagne against it.” This is propwash....
...V. A month in, the occupation in Zuccotti Park — or Liberty Plaza — was becoming more permanent. Problems were emerging too....
...In response, the US has proposed tariffs on $2.4bn of French luxury goods such as champagne, cheese and handbags. The stock market reaction was one of sniffy hauteur....
...Already the Four Seasons George V, which had also planned to reopen on September 1, has delayed the big day for another three weeks....
...Or just escape the craziness and be left alone with a glass of champagne for a few precious minutes.” 47 Rue Pierre Charron, 75008 Paris (boutiquelessuites.com; @lessuites)....
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