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...Boase said he had not given much thought to the possibility of selling Lucky Saint to one of the big brewers, which in recent years have snapped up smaller craft brewers....
...Late last year, French heritage handbag house Létrange took over a 4,500sq ft apartment on Rue Saint-Honoré for private appointments....
...Saint-Affrique told analysts that Danone was moving away from “broad-based pricing discussions” to individual products, and “using promotion rather than our pricing”....
...Lepeyre and Madame Madeleine, who designed under the shortlived label Madeleine & Madeleine in the early 20th century....
...He was buried in the local chapel of Saint-Blaise-des-Simples. On his tomb is the epitaph Je reste avec vous (I remain with you), as a tour through his memorable home ensures....
...Tombées du Camion, 99 Rue des Rosiers, 93400 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France, tombeesducamion.com...
...Who Christie’s International Real Estate House, Barbados, $7.45mn Where In the Sandy Lane Estate in the parish of Saint James on the west coast of Barbados....
...Though their relationship faltered, they are buried together in the Saint-Ouen cemetery outside Paris....
...Who Groupe Mercure Country house, Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, €3.2mn Where In the hills above Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, a village in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of south-western France....
...When wielding a gavel for Kerry Taylor Auctions, Bishop wears a Victorian pearl and opal brooch for good luck, adding that prices start at £100 for a Dior, Chanel or Yves Saint Laurent brooch....
...“If Germany is not able to supply . . . that will have ripple effect all across Europe,” says Saint-Gobain’s d’Iribarne....
...When her showroom manager Marylou, smartly dressed in a striped Dior men’s shirt and Balenciaga tie, leads me in, Blanchet is smoking at her laptop, lighting her cigarettes with the Cire Trudon Madeleine...
...The closest TGV (high-speed train) station is in Saint-Brieuc, which is 20 minutes away by car....
...In 2018, she even based a performance at France’s Centre National des Arts Plastiques on the life of Madeleine Vionnet, the Parisian haute couturier venerated for bias-cut gowns in the 1920s and ’30s....
...Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello resin and metal earrings, £1,160. Headscarf, stylist’s own Prints are bigger and bolder than ever....
...I am taught to make madeleines with yerba mate by pastry chef Saiko Izawa, whose father came from Japan to work in textiles....
...According to estate agency Knight Frank, the price of Nice’s luxury homes averages €10,000 per sq m, way behind Cannes (€19,600), Saint-Tropez (€25,500) and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (€35,300)....
...Another favourite inspiration is the dining room at Villa Santo Sospir on Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, designed by Madeleine Castaing for Francine Weisweiller....
...After 320 steps, I reach the entrance, where a local volunteer leads me further up a narrow tunnel-staircase into an antechamber whose walls are obscured by icons of Greek orthodox saints....
...Just before Concorde, stop for refreshment at the specialist madeleine café Mado à Paris. The Left Bank Good for: Rapid-fire tourism....
...Forget madeleines, remember Bazooka bubblegum, Cresta (it’s frothy man), chocolate cigarettes and Space Dust?...
...Some 2,440km from Saint Helena, it is roughly circular and less than 12km across, rising to a volcanic cone that is 2,062m high....
...Or, let’s consider another of the houses on my tour, which I chose mainly for its wonderful wall “tattoos” by Jean Cocteau: Villa Santo Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat....
...(See pictures of French interior decorator Madeleine Castaing’s Parisian shop — a laundry she converted in 1941 and presided over well into the 1990s.)...
...Olowu follows a long line of designers — among them Madeleine Vionnet, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent — who have been seduced by the timeless simplicity of the kimono silhouette...
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