When we say unique in Paris, we mean it. Set back in a hidden tree-shaded courtyard off an uninspiring street minutes from Père Lachaise cemetery, no lodging in the capital is quite as unobtrusively fabulous as this trailblazing, 100-percent sustainable, five-room (including two suites) eco-lodge. Impeccably yet unpretentiously designed, with soaring glass windows framing views [...]
“It's just one of those plain cakes you think you can't see the point of, until you start slicing and eating it,” Nigella Lawson writes of Madeira cake in How to Be a Domestic Goddess. As is the case with most of Lawson’s thoughts on food, this couldn’t be more spot-on, so allow me to [...]
You couldn’t fault the irony of Riccardo Tisci’s show invitation. A life-size, fully functional fold-out deck chair, it was the perfect seat in which to lean back and take in the strictly digital runway format that shaped his first standalone men’s show for Burberry. Last month, a survey found that 40% of Londoners are considering [...]
Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon is the face of Marc Jacobs’ Spring 2021 ad campaign photographed by Brianna Capozzi and styled by Haley Wollens. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Marc Jacobs (@marcjacobs)
Condensed Milk Cake. If pound cake and sponge cake had a baby, this would be it! Only 6 ingredients! Soft, yet firm with a springy texture and a beautifully rich vanilla flavour. Perfect as a snack cake or as the base for strawberry shortcake, Victoria sandwich cake, and especially trifles. My path to this simple [...]
New York City real estate is much coveted and highly prized. If the sky is the limit, why not live in the clouds? New York offers some of the most expensive penthouses in the world with breathtaking views of this spectacular city. Here are three of the most luxurious penthouses in New York City. [...]
The pursuit of the perfect cocktail is a never-ending journey. The stakes are always raising, craft cocktails have moved beyond the elite and entered the mainstream, but top-level, cocktails will always be sought after. Our focus is on tequila and we’ve found three amazing and expensive tequila cocktails that you’ll need to experience. The Benjamin, [...]
Within a microworld of 25 connecting Golden Age canal houses, iconic is just a word! Getting lost in a hotels’ microworld does not usually imply an actual microworld -well in Pulitzer Amsterdam Hotel‘s case it does. One of the city’s most iconic hotels consists not of one, nor two, but 25 interlinked canal houses from the [...]
A splash of high-end hospitality spicing up Le Passage du Caire! There is Champs Elysees and the impressive Arc de Triomphe and there is also the cute Monmartre and the romantic nights sur-Seine – but Paris is just so much more. One of the city’s new entry Hôtel du Sentier makes for the best excuse [...]
When dreaming up a Covid era alternative to a runway show for Chanel’s Haute Couture spring/summer 2021 collection, Virginie Viard drew on some of the things we’re missing most: like freedom, dancing, parties on summer evenings, and family reunions. “I love big family reunions, when the generations all come together,” said the creative director. “It’s [...]
