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...The two Orient Express-branded yachts are being constructed by French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique and are expected to launch in early 2026 and early 2027, respectively....
...Asahi, Kirin’s Japanese rival, owns Foster’s brewer Carlton & United Breweries....
...With his early career spent in the kitchens of L’Arpège in Paris and San Domenico in Emilia-Romagna, Café Carmellini is the theatrical culmination of exquisite French and Italian cuisine — think Dover sole...
...Website; Directions The divine new spa at Claridge’s is the fruit of a seven-year project to burrow underneath the hotel to create five new floors, including a wine shop and a new chef’s table restaurant, L’...
...Early next year Rocco Forte Hotels will take over and reopen The Carlton, another Quadrilatero stalwart, after a multimillion-euro renovation with its own tranche of new restaurants and retail....
...Just outside Grenoble, the Col de l’Arzelier resort, for example, was founded in 1967 and by the 1980s had six lifts....
...Alex Israel contributed the enormous trompe-l’oeil mural depicting birds of paradise plants along the main stair....
...Meanwhile, L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by LVMH, has acquired a 60 per cent stake in Italian fashion group Etro....
...Sycamore, a private equity group, has tried to walk away from buying a controlling stake in Victoria’s Secret, claiming the retailer’s owner, L Brands, breached the terms of the merger agreement when it...
...MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman , by Ben Hubbard, William Collins, RRP£20, 384 pages Malise Ruthven is the author of ‘L’Arabie des Saoud: Wahhabisme, violence et corruption’ (La fabrique)...
...St James’s: Carlton GardensSmall and secluded – and therefore super-exclusive – St James’s has been gaining traction as a residential location, in particular at Carlton Gardens, a cul-de-sac that occupies...
...And the Berard, a homage to the great French decorator and trompe l’oeil artist Christian Bérard (one of my heroes), is a thing of beauty, particularly in pink....
...Investcorp, which declined to comment, has invested in several Saudi family businesses, including gold and jewellery maker L’azurde, which was founded in 1992 by Abdulaziz Saleh al-Othaim....
...and TE Lawrence would have enjoyed the Italianate formal gardens and swimming pools, the Moroccan courtyard and the Tent Room, resembling the inside of a black-and-white striped marquee, thanks to trompe l’...
...For example, ultra-wealthy buyers will seek out a location such as London’s Chester Square because “you can’t buy anything there for less than £10m, so there’s that recognition of an address that means ‘...
...named an advisory board, which will include Maurice Lévy, who chairs Publicis Groupe, and Matthew Westerman, the former Goldman Sachs and Rothschild banker who launched a boutique advisory firm called MW&L...
...Clients include Dyson, L’Oréal, Subaru, Barneys New York, Cunard, Nordstrom and Ritz-Carlton....
...Similar from £1,167, 1stdibs.com And the thing I’m eyeing next is a vast 12-arm brass chandelier from Stewart L Hofgartner of Below Stairs of Hungerford antiques in Berkshire....
...As we trudged back up, Sarah, from nearby Chester, explained that they’re nothing special in Nova Scotia. “Last year one tried to pick up my terrier....
...Goldman then paid for the two men to fly business class to Dubai and stay at the five-star Ritz-Carlton hotel in Dubai, the court heard....
...Works by other regular guests include ceramics by Georges Braque (by the pool) and Fernand Léger (“La jeune fille et l’oiseau”, on the terrace)....
...Carlton Rochell Asian Art is offering the 11th-century Baphuon-period figure for $650,000. The grisly and quirky have always sold well at this fair....
...Street lit has its literary roots in the work of Chester Himes, Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim....
...Surrey, he notes, is “the world’s biggest trompe l’oeil” because it hides millions of commuters among its leafy hills....
...I have got an original L.S. Lowry, because I am a Northerner....
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