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...The Fumoir at Claridge’s, London Designed by Thierry Despont in the mid-1990s, this glowing jewel box of a Beaux-Arts-inspired space, with its dark plum leather-lined walls and plush dove-grey velvet banquettes...
...Currently the area is very much defined by people in their late twenties moving from areas such as Clapham, Brixton and Fulham in search of a cooler west London atmosphere with village-style living,” says Plum...
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...His rising profile soon bagged him a plum role as an adviser to then prime minister Cameron, who furnished him with an office in the heart of government....
...“We delved into the amazing collection of plant discoveries from prolific Scottish botanists such as George Forrest, Robert Sibbald, John Hutton Balfour, James Sutherland and Robert Fortune,” she says....
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...Or Robert Jasmin’s feral yet floral 1988 Côte Rotie — as sweet as any wine I have tasted, when shared with a friend on the day we emerged from the spring lockdown....
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...And he has given the plum role of home secretary to hardline Eurosceptic Priti Patel....
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