We’ve loved La Petite Maison ever sinced it opened in Nice in the late 1980s. But now that it’s becoming a global force to be recokoned with, we thought it time to salute the magic…
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Philippe Jabre is not who you think he is. Born in 1960 in Beirut to an affluent family who owned the very successful Almaza brewery (88 per cent of which was later bought by Heineken),…
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George Gershwin may have written ‘An American in Paris’ while staying at the original incarnation of this hotel in 1928 but fast-forward to today and you’ll find the new Peninsula Paris sings a very different…
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Even if it’s just an hour and a half’s drive from Zürich, or two from Milan, Andermatt used to somewhere where you’d think time had stopped. Not anymore. Egyptian developer Samih Sawiris is turning it…
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Last August, Ralph Lauren’s executive vice-president of advertising, marketing and communications was elected to the corporation’s board. Noteworthy? We thought so. Why? Well, let’s just say this acorn hasn’t fallen far from Ralph’s tree. I…
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Chances are, if you’ve ever walked into an Aesop shop, you won’t have forgotten it easily. I remember when I first did. It was in New York’s Grand Central Station, where entire walls were constructed…
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This is a wonderful real story about a Korean millionaire who moved to Bahrain eleven years ago and spends each and every morning cleaning rubbish off the streets in his neighbourhood. Mr. Yo we applaud…
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As I make my way through the busy streets of Ashrafieh, it might be due to my biased perception but my eyes are drawn to Maktabis everywhere. And all of them in the carpet business.…
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A sophisticated mix of the best of the industrial and the artisanal, Santoni’s hand-finished shoes strike a stylish revolt against mass produced uniformity. As I clatter along the pebble beach at Portonovo, I notice a…
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The hotels Jean-Michel Gathy designs for the likes of Aman, One&Only and Cheval Blanc are off the decadence Richter scale. It’s therefore about time we meet the man who pioneered the private plunge pool, ‘naughty…
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