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...Obvious examples include those of Léoville Las Cases (Clos du Marquis and Le Petit Lion), Palmer (Alter Ego), Pichon Baron (Les Tourelles and, longer-lasting, Les Griffons), Pichon Lalande (Réserve de la...
...Since Alain Passard épater-ed les bourgeois with a single scrubbed carrot served at his restaurant Arpège in Paris, this hoary old stager has become canon among the veg-botherers, but the lone vegetable...
...Some Parisian franglais words are corporate: “le burnout”, “le brainstorming”, “la prez” (as in PowerPoint presentation), “networker” (as a verb), “une team”, “un call” or “un conf’call”, and indeed “corporate...
...Le Surréalisme, c’est chic in Brussels I have a soft spot for the Hotel Amigo, much like I have one for Brussels itself....
...visual art that Surrealism achieved its disquieting icons: Salvador Dalí’s “Lobster Telephone” (1938), Luis Buñuel’s sliced eyeball in “Un chien andalou” (1929), Man Ray’s nude as a musical instrument “Le...
...Yapp Bros La Bastide Saint Vincent, Pavane 2021 Vacqueyras (14%)Rich, artisanal southern Rhône with everything in the right place. £16 Berry Bros & Rudd Ch Lafon 2018 Listrac (14%)Nicely balanced Cru Bourgeois...
...Originally published in France in 1931, Le Feu Follet tells the story of the last days of Alain Leroy, a bourgeois veteran of the first world war....
...From next year, following renovations, DSM will fill a 17th-century town house at 35-37 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois in the Paris district of Le Marais with collections including jewellery....
...“Les Lalannes,” says Mitterand, “have become icons of French design around the world, particularly in Asia. But I would love this piece to stay in France.”...
...In the 1930s, Pirosmani was restyled as a hero of the people destroyed by the bourgeois Mensheviks. He was then forgotten until the 1960s....
...In the context of luxury Parisian fashion at that point, particularly a brand with the bourgeois tropes that Celine plays on, it still felt surprising; cheeky, but chic....
...The last item of clothing I added to my wardrobe was a jersey dress by Les Benjamins, from the Horse Of The East collection. It’s just so easy to wear....
...We have two former professional dancers,” she says, citing April Magen, VP of global partnerships, and Elle Bourgeois, VP for marketing and communications....
...De Castellane is known for her warm and lively interiors – she favours a pastiche of print and colour that recalls le style anglais in the tradition of David Hicks and Nancy Lancaster....
...Le Mas du Langoustier, a charming, lost-in-time guesthouse all milkshake peach-pinks and watercolour turquoise, vibrates in the thunder....
..., 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...
...She also asked him to work on her costumes for Irma Vep, the 2022 TV miniseries about an American actor who stars in an adaptation of the French silent film Les Vampires....
...Even the most famous modernist of all, Le Corbusier, indulged....
...These include bistro and natural wine specialist Le Verre Volé (The Stolen Glass), Viande & Chef, a butcher that opened in 2015, and specialist chocolatier Denver Williams, whose website claims the business...
...bourgeois elegance....
...Rebellion against the bourgeois “niceness” of his upbringing took the form of intellectualism....
...The first part of the auction also included pieces by Georgia O’Keeffe, Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Wassily Kandinsky and Sandro Botticelli....
...When it opened, I enjoyed the Beyeler as the apogee of bourgeois Swiss pleasure....
...The architecture by Tadao Ando and Renzo Piano, and work by artists like Louise Bourgeois and Ai Weiwei – it’s perfection, as are the food, the wine, the olive groves and the service....
...Susan Sontag dismissed Surrealism as a bourgeois disaffection (“That its militants thought it universal,” she wrote, “is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois”)....
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