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...As we bank towards the famous runway, metres from the beach of Saint Jean, the visions that fleet across my mind are of Henri Matisse’s colour-saturated paintings....
...It was exploited most memorably by Jacques Henri Lartigue, another hotel regular and one of France’s national treasures....
...These once glamorous, now-dated apartments were built in the ’50s and ’60s, around the same time as the nearby Fontainebleau and the Eden Roc, which was also designed by Morris Lapidus....
...A forerunner to these society photographers was, of course, Frenchman Jacques Henri Lartigue, who took his camera to Chamonix in the winter and St Tropez in the summer....
...He brought in wines that “people didn’t know existed, from producers such as Gauby and Roc d’Anglade in the south of France”....
...With his help, they had amassed a collection of masterpieces thought to be worth $2bn, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Amedeo Modigliani and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec....
...Great stuff. 13.5% £9.95 The Wine Society Dom de l’Aumonier, Cuvée Henri Chenin Sec 2009 Touraine Wonderfully broad yet zesty nose....
...and richness, so big it will need careful food matching but lovely smoke and spices. 12.5per cent £12.92 OW Loeb Compare and contrast with their creamy Silberbichl Riesling (13 per cent) at £16.65 Dom Roc...
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