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...the Romney Bay House Hotel — built in 1929 as a private home by the architect behind Portmeirion, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis — they are turning it into a 13-bedroom hotel with interiors that “nod to the Hamptons...
...If you are summering on a Balearic beach or in a breezy Hamptons home, you can now summon a Lanserhof practitioner for a medical-grade facial, or Cindy Crawford’s make-up artist to give you a sultry smokey...
...Sarang Shah cheesboardcollective.coop Citarella, New York City, The Hamptons and ConnecticutMulti-location fresh fish market, founded around 1912 and run by Joe Gurrera since 1983....
...Instead of the fishmonger’s, Blyton and Uttley would today perhaps be more likely to quarrel at the newly opened Thai restaurant, the Giggling Squid....
.... £375, cpcompany.co.uk An unforgettable place I’ve travelled to in the past year is Montauk in East Hampton, an unpretentious fishing village with an anti-establishment charm....
...Of those, roughly half have been to domestic buyers, while the international market has been primarily European and Asian — with a strong Thai contingent....
...A Turkish investor bought St Paul’s House, near the Cathedral, for £33m in September; a Thai investor spent £75m on 33 Gracechurch Street, close to the Bank of England; and in July, a Middle Eastern buyer...
...There’s a pretty Lilliputian spa with dedicated freestanding pavilions for Thai massages and a fledgling garden of herbs and flowers....
...There are no televisions or telephones, and bathrooms and showers (wainscoted, and painted in pastels) are shared by all paying guests, Hamptons-style....
...Last May, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (a name long enough to lasso a distant star) presented the Cannes Film Festival with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (a title likewise) ()....
...To find a decent beachfront for his Hugh Hefner-esque mini-palace, Levine had to build just over the connecting causeway on the mainland on a strip of seafront boldly described by one broker as “the Hamptons...
...“It’s not just a property trend, it’s a lifestyle and tourism trend,” says James Davis, development director of estate agency Hamptons International....
...discreetly obscured behind sliding screens of beautiful hand fabricated Japanese papers (some made with ground mother of pearl); Larsen textiles hanging like delicate banners from double height windows; rare Thai...
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