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...Dutchman’s Pipe’s bougainvillea-covered clubhouse will feature a spa and a chef who cut his teeth at Annabel’s, the private members club for the well-heeled in London’s Mayfair....
...If you’re after just a dose of old Palm Desert glamour, a dinner at The Pink Cabana at the Sands Hotel & Spa will deliver: Mediterranean-Moroccan food in a space created by LA’s king of maximalism, Martyn...
...Spa and gym: Spa with Finnish sauna, steam room and treatment/relaxation rooms....
...The classic, comfortable furnishings and Belle Époque architecture have been maintained by Spanish architect Rafael de La-Hoz and French designers Gilles & Boissier....
...The exhibition runs from March 2 to June 23, (chateau-la-coste.com)....
...For a few days I am a guest of the Clinique La Prairie, the medical spa on Lake Geneva that in nine decades has established an almost mythic status in the luxury of living longer — and more beautifully....
...However, during my stay it had the advantage of being quiet, apart from when a Serge Gainsbourg lookalike wandered down the street playing “La Vie en Rose” on a trumpet....
...August 1; from €600; virginlimitededition.com Cognac, France Just west of the centre of the medieval town of Cognac, on the banks of the river Charente, lies La Nauve, a Belle Époque mansion and former...
...I let the last tune drift and in perfect timing “La Belle Vie” comes on. I go to fill his glass. I notice that another guest has managed to slip in unannounced....
...His newest is a 21st-century reinvention of La Bastide de Capelongue – an old-school stalwart just outside Bonnieux, whose Michelin-starred restaurant has been lovingly maintained (now called La Bastide)...
...Flanked by Table Mountain and Lion’s Head mountains, the hotel is perfect for lovers of the outdoors, with two tennis courts, two heated pools and impressive gardens, as well as a restaurant and a spa....
...In one gallery the massive 1978 diptych “Salut Tom”, with its early spring glare and clustered daffodils, hangs across from the more subdued four-panel painting “La Vie en Rose”....
...The Val d’Isère hotel, opening on December 17, is set across two dark wood and stone chalets, with 21 rooms, a spa and a Peruvian restaurant....
...Belle Isle and Sunset Harbour Belle Isle is the easternmost of the Venetian Islands — six residential islands that were created (or, in the case of Belle Isle, enlarged) in the 1920s by dredging fill soil...
...St Tropez, the Airelles group (which has resorts and chalets in Gordes, the Val d’Isère and Courchevel, as well as the only hotel in the grounds of Versailles) has commandeered the historic Château de la...
...A spa and pool have been dug out from under the lovely garden....
...With the rise of LSD culture, trippy HQs emerge, such as Leary’s Millbrook in New York state and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey’s Santa Cruz escape La Honda, home of “The Acid Tests”....
...Graduates of the local Belle Arti academy, tattooed and dreadlocked in paint-splattered overalls, stood on ladders, meticulously cleaning final sections of spectacular scenes: languid maids in translucent...
...culturally rich pueblos magicos or “magic towns”, it occupies a 2-hectare site within a biosphere reserve, surrounded by farmland, cactus desert, an oasis of 5,000 palms and the foothills of the Sierra de la...
...“The project was really nice,” recalls Ropion, the nose behind commercial blockbusters such as Lancôme’s La Vie Est Belle and Thierry Mugler’s Alien....
...What A seven-bedroom, six-bathroom property with spa facilities, a wine cellar and gym. Additional dwellings include a two-bedroom guest house, a one-bedroom apartment and a studio apartment....
...Hotel and Residences in Knightsbridge, a huge portrait of Monica Vitti, the Italian actress, hangs on the wall, while a specially made film is screened in the private cinema with clips from movies from La...
...Its much-fêted debut perfume, C’est la Vie, was launched in 1992. It stank, in every sense of the word, and sank. “It was disgusting,” said Lacroix....
...Her holiday accommodation, Gîte Belle Vie, is in Sainte-Marie-de-Campan, a small Pyrenean village that marks the start of the 17.2km climb to Col du Tourmalet, the highest paved mountain pass in the French...
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