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...The two Orient Express-branded yachts are being constructed by French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique and are expected to launch in early 2026 and early 2027, respectively....
...This is in part because I really rate the hotel – ace location, service so good, design (that Fornasetti Suite is something else; the genius of Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel is everything else) – so...
...My friend Patricia’s birthday parties were the best....
...The rest comes from visitors; fees, events and the support of many Friends worldwide (l.saintleger@vaux-le-vicomte.fr, for details)....
...One attendee, artist Patricia Mitchell, ended up using a malachite-effect backdrop for the paper sculpture she created for Chris Beardshaw’s award-winning Chelsea garden in May....
...Asahi, Kirin’s Japanese rival, owns Foster’s brewer Carlton & United Breweries....
...With his early career spent in the kitchens of L’Arpège in Paris and San Domenico in Emilia-Romagna, Café Carmellini is the theatrical culmination of exquisite French and Italian cuisine — think Dover sole...
...This week, the US electric-car maker roped in South Korean company L&F to contribute battery materials....
...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’...
...Early next year Rocco Forte Hotels will take over and reopen The Carlton, another Quadrilatero stalwart, after a multimillion-euro renovation with its own tranche of new restaurants and retail....
...And the exquisite trompe-l’oeil shell “mirrors” and decorative frescoes in the main hotel corridor are the work of François Roux, who restored the ceilings in Louboutin’s Lisbon house....
...Just outside Grenoble, the Col de l’Arzelier resort, for example, was founded in 1967 and by the 1980s had six lifts....
...Exhibits, which included Sottsass’s totemic Carlton room divider, were loud, chunky, playful and fashioned in eye-popping colours....
...In his studio, the bespeckled artist, who wears his streaked grey hair long, jumps from the long, stone-topped table, wanders over to a low-slung Patricia Urquiola for Moroso lounge chair, picks up a guitar...
...A new venue belonging to the Academy of Fine Arts Florence is housed there, as well as LVMH’s IME (L’Institut des Métiers d’Excellence)....
...L’Eclisse (1962) Where to watch: Amazon Prime, iTunes and (US) The Criterion Channel Michelangelo Antonioni made a star of the city’s financial centre in the stylishly cynical love story L’Eclisse, set...
...The ever-inventful Moooi’s Lint carpet collection (from €2,330) is an in-your-face depiction of interweaved silk ribbons and, in the same vein, Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has produced the Patcha...
...Lucky Boston, then, to be home since May to The Newbury, a historic building on the Back Bay’s main drag functioning as a hotel since 1927 – first as a Ritz-Carlton, then a Taj, now owned by a partnership...
...Alex Israel contributed the enormous trompe-l’oeil mural depicting birds of paradise plants along the main stair....
...The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel, the French media watchdog, confirmed that it was approached by the broadcaster in December....
...Roughly equidistant between the Champs Elysées and the Pont de l’Alma, the hotel occupies a prized corner of Georges V with the Rue Pierre Charron....
...L’Académie du Vin next door, run by his associate Patricia Gastaud-Gallagher, set numerous wine world luminaries, including France’s best-known wine writer Michel Bettane, on their way....
...Meanwhile, L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by LVMH, has acquired a 60 per cent stake in Italian fashion group Etro....
...Last month, the brand’s owner L Brands and Sycamore Partners called off a $525m deal that would have given the private equity group a majority stake in the lingerie retailer....
...Elizabeth L Cline, an author on labour rights and environmental practices in the fashion industry, argues that outsourcing has enabled retailers to distance themselves from risks in the supply chain....
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