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Chef Fadi Kattan on his new cookbook, 'Bethlehem: a Celebration of Palestinian Food'
...Kylie Minogue’s Diesel dress had trompe l’oeil breasts and a trompe l’oeil belly button....
...Guests are offered “Landscape at Twilight” or “The Bedroom” as alternatives, but I wanted to test the artist’s assertion that it “grows in richness the more you look at it”....
...In his research for Hospital at South London Gallery, Pope.L traced the word “hospital” to one of its root meanings — stranger, or guest, which suggests the disconcerting realities of these buildings....
...The Italian was a guest at the wedding of Alexandre Arnault in Venice in 2021 while the LVMH boss has vacationed at Della Valle’s summer home on the island of Capri....
...In 2019, Boucheron opened an opulent 300sq m second-floor apartment above its Place Vendôme store, where VVIP guests could spend the night....
...Culinary trompe l’oeil has a long tradition that stretches from sotelties at banquets in the Middle Ages (where guests might encounter castles made of capons) to the kitschy centrepieces that became all...
...Speaking of Fabbrica del Vappore, this creative hub housed in a former industrial complex will also be hosting a music festival this year, created by Milanese DJ and producer Lele Sacchi, with guest artists...
...Equally great is the frescoed breakfast room, its trompe l’oeil columns spot-lit, its retro dining chairs painted a cheering shade of red....
The FT’s Undercover Economist Tim Harford on the art of subtraction
...Guests can either enjoy dancing to the Latin jazz and Flamenco flavours of the music or sit and feast on a dinner menu curated by Emanuele Pollini of the venue’s acclaimed Italian restaurant: Amalfi anchovies...
...Over that eyeless, uncannily expressionlessness form is a trompe-l’oeil stone tablet inscribed with a phrase from Cicero: “To each his own mask”....
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...Welcomed as Sedira’s guests in her home, we are also visitors on a movie set, for the place and the songs reappear in her film....
...This is another painted room, with trompe l’oeil decoration by Fernand Renard....
...From bitter experience my guests know what I like to cook indoors. To change the tone and widen my repertoire, I decided to withdraw to the kitchen and experiment. I am a fundamentalist cook....
...And the violently pornographic language used by two guest Latin trap rappers — Bryant Myers and Luar La L — is actively objectionable....
...It’s only about 250 kilometres from Puglia, but a world-away experience, a Mediterranean immersion of a different kind. satoriyacht.com, €110,000 a week for 10 guests, excluding VAT and APA Rwanda’s new...
...Toiletries too lean classic and come from the Provençal purveyor L’Occitane....
...Up high and out of the way, a shelf runs around the L-shaped alcove, with green and white Rockingham plates for decoration. It is one of the best dining rooms ever....
...The plaster panelling in the salon, for example, is a trompe-l’oeil parchment, hand-patinated by a young Belgian artisan, Mathilde Van der Schueren....
...One French frigate, L’Oiseau, carted off 18,635 between 1759 and 1761 (as the naturalist Gerald Durrell noted when he described a visit here in 1976)....
...I am taken along a passageway from the church to the refectory, a whitewashed L-shaped room with limited but tasteful religious decoration....
...But Alisal has been operating on 10,500 acres in the gorgeous rolling hills north-west of Santa Barbara since 1946, when it opened to just 30 guests for the summer....
...June 15; further information and tickets here ‘Nijinski’, Opernhaus Zurich With Debussy’s “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune” and Chopin’s two piano concertos providing the musical framework, Marco Goecke...
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