Hints and tips:
...The new expats – and the scads of capital they bring, along with the odd pearl-pink Bentley – are a favourite topic of conversation....
...These are The Naked Room, whose co-founders Lizaveta German and Maria Lanko are co-curators of Ukraine’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and Voloshyn, a gallery run by the married couple Julia and Max Voloshyn...
...Meanwhile, “the wearing of sentimental antique pieces such as lover’s eyes has started to become more popular again”, says Julia Westerman, a jewellery historian at London specialist Bentley & Skinner....
...Corrigan shares his home with his family: his children Jess and Richie — who are both involved in the business — son Robbie and wife Maria, who works as a therapist for the NHS....
...With a nod to Trinidad, the land of my birth, I like to turn up my calypso playlist, pour myself a bitters-and-lime “Bentley” cocktail and get stuck into swirling....
...My favourite websites are Frank Dale & Stepsons for fantasising about buying vintage Bentleys (I did buy one from them once, and I should never have let it go); the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, for fantasising...
...Santa Maria Novella shaving foam, €20; smnovella.com....
...Bentley’s Oyster Bar & Grill: Owner Richard Corrigan has a policy of buying fish straight from the boat and then interfering with it as little as possible. He’s a chef who dislikes chefs....
...“A state museum is like driving a 1930s Bentley because the machine is not adapted to its function very well....
...Bought and refurbished Bentley’s Oyster Bar and Grill in 2005. Opened Corrigan’s Mayfair in 2008 and Bentley’s Sea Grill in 2012. Lives: Muswell Hill, north London, with his wife Maria....
...10-year association with Bentley, Breitling this year presents a batch of four car-inspired chronographs....
...One of the judges, Anna Maria D’Ambrosio, was also said by prosecutors to have worked as an accountant for the Ragosta group. Eight other officials were also arrested....
...“It gives people the opportunity to develop new skills,” says Maria Bentley, global head of human resources and chair of the music club at UBS....
...It remains a haunt of the super-rich, with a Riviera-like ambience to match, and the neat lakeside resorts are replete with Bentleys and Hummers....
...Andorra Maria Rosa Picart de Francis, ambassador of the Principality of Andorra, was appointed in 2007. The embassy is in Wandsworth, south-west London....
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