Hints and tips:
...Marie, which is popular with locals, thanks to its reasonably priced menu (hors d’oeuvres from €5, mains from €24), strong on seafood (sea urchin with mussels and mushrooms; skate with artichoke, mussels, oysters...
...Over a lunch of oysters, John Dory and a glass of Albariño at Le Mermoz, it is a surprise to learn that Chatillon, voluble and passionate, never wanted to be an architect....
...I also love Original in Berlin for handpicked designer homeware....
...The finish has a savoury tang – oyster shell and salty sea air. VIP visitors will also get to sample this “dramming” cask....
...viscose-mix GO SOPHIA jumper, £30, overkillshop.com Aurélie Bidermann gilded oyster turquoise Alicanta ring, €250 L’Objet wood Ionic salt and pepper mill, £397, farfetch.com Proenza Schouler ice-dyed...
...But then you notice the discreet pedestals at each end of the installation, created by Los Angeles based PlayLab, Inc. Each showcases four “historiated sculptures” encased in glass....
...Downstairs is a large sitting room, an equally large kitchen (with a snappy blue Lacanche range) and a bar room; the pool, with its grass surround and cute wood-hut pool house, directly abuts the vineyards...
...Snacks by William Blank (ex-Lyle’s) will include oysters, salt beef sandwiches and burnt butter affogato. There will also be a 20-seat terrace that I’m sure will be packed, come summer....
...Suavina Original Lip Balm, £5 My favourite room in my house is the kitchen. We don’t have a sitting room as my husband uses it as his studio, so all of the life is in the kitchen....
...I make models for my designs in my house and if it’s interesting then I bring it to the workshop. So my house is full of ideas and prototypes....
...When work began in 2001, two diggers revealed a wall across the centre — a standard feature to protect men downstream as they were digging out the original lake....
...Over email in 2015, Valette expressed frustration when a colleague at Sotheby’s pushed back on his request for a higher valuation for the da Vinci painting two years after the original sale to Bouvier was...
...The White House, which has the power to veto such bans from the ITC, opted not to intervene by a December 25 deadline....
...Many were governed by strict rules covering temperance (there were no pubs within the original Bournville estate), personal hygiene or moral probity....
...The terms of the deal were not made public but Qualcomm said they were similar to the original deal struck in 2019, when Apple withdrew its legal claims against the chip group....
...Yet Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-chief executive, says there is a logic to saving classic movie houses....
...“They were literally screaming at the front of house like, can’t you just increase the production?”...
...And much like the original, the menu does not disappoint....
...What seemed to have got bitcoin enthusiasts excited was BlackRock’s ETF added to a list of eligible assets that are held at the US securities clearing house....
...The Federal Trade Commission has not dropped a separate complaint that is due to be heard in its in-house court, starting on August 2....
...investors last week if it could raise the fund’s so-called hard cap from $23bn to $23.5bn, according to people familiar with the matter, in a sign of its confidence in raising significantly more than its original...
...Humanoid robotics and the potential to displace workers and social workers was one of our original and adjacent Moonshots but which would be substantially accelerated by Dojo’s success....
...They use native species — razor clams, whelks or limpets — foraged from shorelines, or restaurant waste such as oyster and scallop shells....
...The Codex Sassoon, described by the auction house as “the earliest, most complete” surviving copy of the Jewish sacred text, was written by an unnamed scribe in either Syria or what is now Israel in about...
...There are fun elements too — original prints of fanciful creatures from a famous 1913 children’s book by Vincent Cartwright Vickers on the walls, and corresponding cocktails on the bar menu....
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