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...The late Denis Durantou of L’Église-Clinet in Pomerol developed Les Cruzelles and La Chenade in the satellite appellation Lalande de Pomerol....
...“We found a big void around the garden of the Petit Palais and Grand Palais – nobody is going there, yet it’s 24 hectares in the centre of Paris by the Seine.”...
...Charles Girault was tasked with coordinating the project, as well as building the (not so) Petit Palais opposite. The result is an architectural cadavre exquis....
...Head pastry chef Jérémy Prakhin has hand-crafted the creature – which is filled with hazelnut gianduja – from chocolate supplied by Valrhona, a luxury French chocolatier based in the small town of Tain-l’...
...Today, the polo shirt belongs to a mass audience – Lacoste sold more than five million units of its classic style, the L.12.12, globally in 2022....
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...Their uniforms shine in rich impasto hues fit for kings: myriad whites for “Le Petit Pâtissier”, hands on his hips, insouciant as a prince; velvety reds and blacks for “Le Valet de Chambre” with outsize...
...Accessed by private tunnel, the pair of adjoining chalets (the seven-bedroom East Wing and six-bedroom West Wing) perch above the prestigious Petit Alaska enclave....
...Roughly a third of the rally on the CAC40 exchange since the start of the fourth quarter last year stems from burgeoning investor interest in Hermès, Kering, LVMH and beauty group L’Oréal....
...The Wine Society Ch La Brande 2016 Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux 13.5%Very respectable claret that could be enjoyed now or in five years.£17.75 Yapp Bros Begude, Esprit Pinot Noir 2021 Haute Vallée de l’...
...The last podcast I listened to was Picasso: Séparer l’homme de l’artiste, an episode from Julie Beauzac’s feminist podcast series. It really upset me. I had no idea the guy was such a monster....
The watchmaker is looking to polish its high-end credentials with a music-inspired minute repeater
...Porters wearing white gloves and blue suits with gold braiding whisk our suitcases through Paris’s Gare de L’Est....
...Top marks go to The River Café’s structured 2018 Roma Rosso Principe Pallavicini, Core’s harmonious 2020 Domaine du Coulet Côtes du Rhône “Petit Ours” and Les 110 Taillevent’s 2016 François Villard “L’Appel...
...I typically make my way back towards my bakery, stopping by Rosebud, a florist on Place de l’Odéon....
...It is now in Chopard’s museum, the L.U.CEUM, in its factory in Fleurier, Switzerland....
...Laurain’s recent novel Vintage 1954, the residents of a grand Parisian townhouse are transported back to the era of Edith Piaf courtesy of a bottle of Beaujolais, while in Céline Sciamma’s beguiling new film Petit...
...The late Denis Durantou of Ch L’Église-Clinet was responsible for it and it’s a fine memorial to his skills....
...My chef is Alain Passard of Paris’s L’Arpège, who revolutionised vegetable-based cuisine in France....
...She spent the formative years of her career working with chefs such as Derry Clarke and Mary McEvoy at L’Ecrivain in the city....
Karl-Friedrich Scheufele talks about Chopard’s ethical stance
...Here, through beeswax, turpentine, chocolate and smoky notes, they created a picture of Pompadour in her petit salon....
...In my bag, I always have Saint Laurent’s Rouge Pur Couture lipstick and my perfume, L’Heure Bleue by Guerlain....
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...Je ne suis plus d’accord de faire des choix de sociétés où je vais respirer cet air-là, où mon petit bébé va avoir la bronchiolite parce que cet air-là, parce que ce choix de société fait ça....
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