Hints and tips:
...My little secret is Bodega del Vermut....
...Then there are some amazing ceramics stores in nearby Santa Maria del Camí, where I bought all my flower pots....
...Controvento’s client list includes Audi — for whom they designed an imposing mirrored circular installation at last year’s Salone del Mobile — and the fashion and lifestyle group Fendi Casa....
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...This, in Mexico City’s leafy suburbs, is Kahlo’s birthplace Casa Azul, now Museo Frida Kahlo....
...I’m doing it for my pleasure.” To put it simply, he says, his designs are centred around bringing in the light – he compares it to cutting diamonds....
...Right now: Lanzarote, specifically the Hotel Emblematico La Casa de Los Naranjos....
...Instead of mere rooms, there’ll be “personal havens” with a minimum area of 40 sq m, making them some of the largest in the city....
...The 18th-century casa señorial, or manor house, is a honey-coloured monument to marés, the pale sandstone that has been prised from the ground here for thousands of years....
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Da Gioia was a known quantity — not as exclusive as La Fontelina (perched right in front of the Faraglioni rock formations), nor as venerated as La Canzone del Mare (also in Marina Piccola), but with a prime...
...Landing on the dark-red beaches of Isla Rábida is like setting foot on the Costa del Mars....
...The property, a 420 sq m penthouse, is in Palazzo Portinari Salviati, a prestigious family home converted into high-end apartments and hotel suites on Via del Corso, with views over Brunelleschi’s cathedral...
...And I'm amazed that she's been brave enough to take me on. And I suppose, in love? Of course. Whatever in love means....
...She recently decamped to rural Northamptonshire to be nearer to her five horses Ed, Bruno, Del, Luke and Dolly....
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is dulce de leche from Punta del Este in Uruguay....
...After dark, my latest spot for evening entertainment is Casa Cipriani, set atop the Battery Maritime Building in the financial district....
...The most well-known (and Instagrammed) Puerto examples are Casa Tiny, a one-bedroom rental, and the Casa Wabi art foundation nearby....
...Indeed, the story of Casa Batlló is one of constant reinvention....
...The second you enter the Paris hotel, you step on a marble and granite eight-pointed star design — inspired, I learnt, by the one in Rome’s Piazza del Campidoglio. Bulgari takes heritage seriously....
...Pleasurable now but even more so in the future.£25.68 Justerini & Brooks Dominio del Aguila, Pícaro del Aguila Clarete, 2019 Ribera del Duero 14% A most unusual Ribera, the colour of raspberry juice, inside...
...Spot them: Young, usually dead attractive, charming, dressed to impress (on a sample-sale budget: Chloé, Celine, Giuliva Heritage x H&M, if they were lucky enough to get some of it)....
...Details: La Casa di Elsa sleeps four, costs from €80 per night and is available via Casa Vacanze Procida (casavacanzeprocida.it)....
...I spent a happy hour in the company of Borja González at his shop La Casa del Jerez, a Mecca for sherry fans, with an encyclopedic collection of 200-plus local wines, including precious and hard-to-find...
...“Being at the CJP is where my passion for horses ignited,” Brogdon said before competing at the Del Mar International showjumping competition in 2020....
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