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...from dealer Ken Bolan – including Rougier Tulip lamps, a creamy lacquered Willy Rizzo desk and a lucite plinth-mounted coffee table – set the tone for the adults-only zones that encompass a spectacular L-shaped...
...When you listen to him and read his book L’Art de Nourrir, he manages to inject poetry in everything he does....
...Harmony L’Extrait is a serum that promises to strengthen and re-densify the vertical skin structures. Santa Baby, just put a bottle under the tree?...
...Taking the fight to the Moon, the story goes full gaga Promethean, a Haribo sci-fi mash-up of The Matrix, Georges Méliès, Kubrick (poor Kubrick) and L Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth....
...The movie was a lesson in how, even for a Parisian, a Métro journey to Les Halles can seem like a journey to another world....
...Anyone with visions of emerging from the waves with swagger like Halle Berry or Daniel Craig in a Bond film can forget it....
...It’s hidden in an alley near Les Halles, and the poulet braisé with plantains, rice and beans and the funky zebra print and pictures of Marvin Gaye make it a fantastic place....
...Luxury pyjama maker Olivia Von Halle is more interested in the political pussycat....
...He has long admired Westfield and Sir Frank’s business nous: when Mr Cuvillier lived in Sydney during the 1990s as an executive at L’Oréal, “Westfield was my daily bread,” he recalls....
...Six months ago, Mr Beaulaton quit his job and opened a bar in the vibrant Parisian district of Les Halles....
...Halle de Rive, Boulevard Helvétique 29, Geneva (www.halle-de-rive.com). Stolichnaya, www.stoli.com. If I had to limit my shopping to one neighbourhood in one city, I’d choose my home town, Florence....
...The tourist’s Paris of the Champs-Élysées, the Étoile and the Avenue de l’Opéra is largely the work of Haussmann....
...Just up the road, I stumble upon a hive of local activity around Biarritz’s fragrant covered daily market, Les Halles....
...In Charles Marville’s 1874 photograph of Les Halles, a glass canopy soars above slender struts, like the shed of a great railway station....
...Consider what I woke up to: “Gold reigns supreme at the 85th Annual Academy Awards”; “Halle Berry wore Adeler Earrings and a Le Vian ring”; “Jennifer Garner in 200 carats of diamonds from the Neil Lane archival...
...– some absinthe from L’Epicerie. Le Grand Hotel (legrandhotelsète.com) has double rooms from €90....
...“If the French love the éclair so much,” says Guillaume Simonnet, one of the founders of the recently opened L’Atelier de l’Eclair in the Sentier area near Les Halles, “it’s because it was the first pastry...
...The €7m project is just the start: next year, a 2.5km length of the highway running along the rive gauche, or left bank, from the Musée d’Orsay to Pont de l’Alma, another key east-west trunk route, will...
...The renowned Hallé symphony orchestra, founded in 1858, led by Sir Mark Elder and based at Bridgewater Hall, has just been joined by the BBC Philharmonic, relocating from Manchester to the new MediaCity...
...South African tenor Kobie van Rensburg has been staging operas since 2007, when his Halle L’Orfeo caused a stir in the German press....
...This is held in the Bourse de Commerce, near what was once Paris’ food market, Les Halles....
...But Yam‘Tcha’s intimate space near Les Halles (pictured) couldn’t be more different from Hong Kong’s boisterous dumpling palaces – or more French....
...At Levêque and Bailly’s pension on Rue de l’Estrapade, his friend Prarond describes him descending the stairs, “thin, his collar open, a very long waistcoat, full cuffs, a light gold cane in his hand, with...
...So today you can journey quickly by train from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Notre Dame, or from Les Halles to the modern commercial centre at La Défense, more quickly than in the cab of even the most frenzied...
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