Letter from Paris – the curious story behind a rediscovered Lucio Fontana piercing-painting
It seems that practically every month of late art lovers have been able to rejoice as lost masterpieces have reappeared,…
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Art Review: Durer by Michael Riedel, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Explaining Michael Riedel’s art is difficult – it’s like entering a particularly winding hedge maze where the hedges are mirrors…
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The Spear’s/Mayo Clinic Dinner at Claridges
A number of celebrity guests were among those invited to meet key practitioners from Mayo Clinic, an internationally renowned medical…
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Dorchester Collection offers luxury getaways in Milan for her and for him & him
You wait ages for one glamorous five-star luxury hotel promotion then the Dorchester Collection offer three at once. Ladies who…
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‘I don’t eat breakfast or lunch’: A day in the life of a Michelin starred chef
Normally I get up about 7.30. It’s maybe quite sad, but the first thing I do is have a cup…
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Why taxes and loans separate the New York and London art markets
London and New York, where Sotheby’s and Christie’s hold their record-smashing Impressionist and Post-War & Contemporary auctions, are still the…
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Guest editor Helene Darroze on pigging out and Krispy Kremes
I divide my time between Paris and London, as I have restaurants in both cities. It can be a bit…
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Helene Darroze’s Guest Recipe: Grandmother’s roast corn-fed chicken stuffed with wild mushrooms
Serves 6 1 corn-fed chicken (ask your butcher to clean the liver and keep it to use in the recipe)1…
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The most underrated books of all time
Author: Romy van den Broeke There’s nothing more satisfying than becoming gripped by a book, especially if it’s an unexpected…
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If you feel like cooking up a storm this weekend – in line with the weather forecast, sadly – then…
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Food Friday: Japanese Cherry Blossom Cocktails for Hanami
Bartender Andrea Taiuti shows us how to make two sake-based cocktails to celebrate Spring and Hanami, at Sake No Hana…
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A day in the life of a Michelin inspector
Most days I am up by about 6.45am to reflect upon the stay and the meal the night before in…
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Ultra rare 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/C goes to auction
The classic car find – the ninth of just twelve examples produced in the summer of ’66 – remains a…
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Why wealth is no barrier to depression
For the last few months, whenever anyone has asked me the subject of my memoir Black Rainbow, I’ve tended to…
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Tamara Salman talks to Spear’s about leather quests, Sicilian charm and white rabbits
LEATHER LATHER Flying back from Italy following a factory visit to my wonderful Tuscan workshop, clutching potent-smelling rolls of leather,…
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Review of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House
Richard Eyre’s production of La Traviata for the Royal Opera House is twenty years old. I’m sure it has survived…
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Battling artists help depict the many faces of war
FIGHTING FACES Facial hair, to judge from the evidence at the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition The Great War in…
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Coconut & Marzipan Qlip Recipe
Ingredients: 50ml of Quintessentially Vodka25ml Marzipan liqueur 50ml Coconut Water 3 Dashes of Aztec Chocolate Bitters 1 Bar Spoon of…
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Review of A View From the Bridge at the Young Vic
Rarely is the razor’s edge sharper than in live theatre, but Ivo van Hove has created a production that is…
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How designer hotels became the new luxury must-have
Author: Chloe Barrow BOUTIQUE HOTELS Set on the highest and most prestigious section of Courchevel’s four-tiered ski resort, six-star hotel…
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