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...In front of Les Invalides there is a café with a big terrace called Café de l’Esplanade, with the same owners as Hôtel Costes....
...Rooms My room was a harmonious mix of classic Roman travertine limestone, grooved oak panelling and diaphanous curtains made from recycled plastic (with blackout back-up behind)....
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...The plaster panelling in the salon, for example, is a trompe-l’oeil parchment, hand-patinated by a young Belgian artisan, Mathilde Van der Schueren....
...I certainly wouldn’t measure quality in terms of the number of oak casks, but at L’Estabel there were 20 of varying ages....
...I’m afraid I’ve come round to my wife’s way of thinking. Bids end Thursday, if you’re interested. One careful(ish) owner....
...I poked my head in at 10.30pm, but it was still too early for partying in Pigalle....
...Website; Directions— Jan Randolph, economist, London The Wilder Townhouse, Dublin I am a regular visitor to The Wilder. I am always greeted warmly....
...I certainly can’t justify the wines I used to buy....
...oak casks....
...Very ripe, intense fruit presumably accounts for the fact that, if served this blind, I would guess a higher dosage than 3g/l....
...I don’t just love Lasdun. As a Brit, I’m actually proud of it....
...“I’m doing more and more DIY weddings now, when I work out a palette of flowers with a bride or groom and they do the arrangements themselves.”...
...In Paris’s three-star L’Astrance a few years ago, I saw an immaculately attired old boy lunching alone, napkin hanging from his neck by a chain, merrily drinking his way through a bottle of Domaine de la...
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...But I couldn’t resist recommending seven wines from that current hotbed of value, Bordeaux, too. I would always recommend buying by the case to reduce bottle prices substantially....
...It had seen no oak at all and sells for under €8 in Germany and the Netherlands....
...Apartment lobbies I start not with a particular place but with an archetype....
...The downstairs “Den” room, which I peeked into, has a terrace and a gorgeous trompe-l’oeil autumn-leaf design on the floor that made me briefly wonder if housekeeping had slacked off that day....
...Mischief bubbled away below the surface: “It isn’t that I have a basic urge to say ‘fuck’ every five minutes, but I’m conscious of a faint resentment that I couldn’t if I wanted to . . . ” His evident ease...
...But I’m probably being too idealistic about that. 26. Is “oaked” a description of flavour or method? It’s a method. The wine has been exposed to oak, whether it’s barrel, oak chips or oak staves....
...“It started out as Italian white lacquer and then I changed it to oak, but that was too orange so I toned that down. It’s contemporary, but I have a lot of old pieces that I mix in....
...“For a Sidecar I’d recommend Pasquet L’Organic 4yo – one that is young, fruity and super-fresh.”...
...Neal designed Tomlinson’s built-in ash bench to work with his Orkney chairs and a bespoke oak table. “It’s the most beautiful bench I’ve ever had,” Tomlinson says....
...I recently bought a forest green tablecloth with white stripes from Rebecca Udall, a North Yorkshire brand that specialises in contemporary European homeware....
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