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HTSI has taken you to Houghton Hall, Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris bolthole, Nureyev’s Amalfi hideaway, and a host of other heartstopping houses this year. Here are our favourites
...On a visit to Serge Gainsbourg’s former home in Paris, the tour stops momentarily before a tiny glass-walled placard....
...Serge welcomes her cordially while the other Dumontets are contemptuously high-handed....
...The Serge Hill Project will officially open in June 2024, though many seeds have already been sown. The plant library, for example, began life in 2020....
...Behind the inconspicuous door of 5 bis Rue de Verneuil is the house that was once Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris pied-à-terre....
...Goldenberg began collecting art while in the US, buying prints by avant-garde artists including Jean Cocteau and Serge Poliakoff, then moving into fields including American Abstract Expressionism, European...
...Maison Margiela wool-mohair serge culotte trousers, £3,700 Rabanne jersey draped top, POA, and wool trousers, £1,580. Junya Watanabe leather sandals, £1,019 Bottega Veneta cotton-mix gilet, POA....
...Deforestation has long prompted concerns about the loss of biodiversity and vital carbon dioxide storage, but many people are only now waking up to the risks to human health, reckons Serge Morand, senior...
...Birkin’s waif-like, almost androgynous style made her a hit with French audiences after she became a star through a series of collaborations with the late singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg....
...on AfghanistanHow we live now: Afghanistan’s women speakTaliban order Afghan women to cover faces in publicTaliban restrictions signal dominance of the mullahsSecret schools keep Afghan girls learning Serge...
...Hermès alpaca and felted-wool Suri coat, £4,150, wool and silk knitted tunic, £2,000, and wool serge Bermuda shorts, POA. Acne Studios cotton Pinna trousers (worn underneath), €450....
...It was set to one of the most French songs ever, namely the breathily intoned “Je t’aime . . . moi non plus” by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin....
...In 1936, Serge Lifar took to the stage of the Paris Opera, costumed to kill....
...But the concern is how far will these explorations and potentially exploitations go,” said Serge Wich, a primatologist....
...dances to a lament by the Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, alternately falling to and rising from the ground, a permanent ripple; in another, Parce Que, he moves delicately to the song of the same name by Serge...
...She recounts seeing a picture of Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg and their dog that she’d never seen before....
...And Serge Gainsbourg at number five. Looking around the space today, none of Liaigre’s iconic minimalism remains....
...house designer, Michele Bönan, scoured Les Puces and mixed all the gorgeous things he found with pieces of his own design throughout the 19th-century maison d’hôtes: there are west African antiques and Serge...
...Écrin de Fumée (from £125), the new perfume from Serge Lutens (never one to shy away from intense), features sweet tobacco, which the brand describes as being for “those for whom excess is a way of life”...
...A spokesperson for Margherita told the Financial Times that she had always sought simply to defend the interests of her five children by her second husband Serge de Pahlen — and to “respect her father’s...
...“She and my grandfather loved art, and collected the art of their time: André Lanskoy or Serge Poliakoff, Hans Hartung, Jean-Michel Atlan,” he says. But Houzé set off on a different route....
...When I was at Vogue, I would mix Yves Saint Laurent’s Opium with Serge Lutens’s Fleurs d’Oranger, so that was my first creation. It left a trail wherever I went; people would say, “Carine was here.”...
A Q&A with the British guitarist and singer-songwriter
...Imagine: you turn up looking as if you have been attending a seminar in drinking at the Serge Gainsbourg Academy of Decadence, and then you spontaneously embark on an impassioned recitation of Verlaine or...
...Serge Hercberg, one of the scientists who created Nutri-Score, argues that Lactalis is using Roquefort as a lobbying tool when it is in fact trying to protect its portfolio of sugary products including rice...
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