Hints and tips:
...(One Song Dynasty petrophile, Mi Fu, was legendary for his eccentric intimacy with a stone.)...
...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’...
...The L-shaped corner suite has a wraparound terrace and an expanse of twinkling, rippling blue which means that, for my two nights, I barely notice the interior, I just can’t stop looking out....
...They last for several days because he does it the old-fashioned way, which includes pin curls and sitting under a dryer in a pink hairnet like an old lady.” hershesons.com André Fu, architect“I’ve been...
...One of these is André Fu, who launched his lifestyle collection to much fanfare at Milan Design Week in April....
...“Sometimes the graffiti will mention an event that has just happened,” Piacentini says, his finger tracing the words Fu fatto Papa Pio IV, the inscription indicating that Pius IV had just been elected....
...The tourist’s Paris of the Champs-Élysées, the Étoile and the Avenue de l’Opéra is largely the work of Haussmann....
...And l love the famous sons and daughters of Yorkshire, mainly because they are highly irritating but absolutely marvellous: Brian Clough, Geoffrey Boycott, Jeremy Clarkson....
...Fu Pengjiang, director, Asian commodities trading at Société Générale Newedge, said: “Supply and demand is so close so any small changes can move the market....
...She has lots of famous friends but she meets them in private, she says, reeling off names of actors, actresses and kung fu stars....
...Great attention has been paid to the areas of a room you might reasonably want to read or work in: the desk, the L-shaped sofa in the window or the blissfully comfortable bed are well lit, and, better yet...
...The couple met on the film set of L’Outremangeur (“The Over-Eater”) in 2003 and married in 2007....
...Dumont is an artist of l’anomie in a great French tradition (Camus, Sartre), though he demands that you come to his projects willing to work as hard as he....
...I kept wanting to do a kung fu leap through their windscreens....
...But Fu managed to be gracious while also getting in a dig about the bit of unpleasantness he had experienced....
...Alphabet soup The change in central bank policy effectively declares an end to nearly a decade of deflation, or as it is rendered in the elegance of traditional Japanese, de-fu-re....
International Edition