A shimmering start to the week, Reflective Palace, is an enchanting art installation from 2006. Titled, “To Breathe – A Mirror...
DO YOU REMEMBER this article about La Socelière, a 17th-century château in the Loire Valley that was purchased by an Italian couple...
HAVING JUST RETURNED FROM PARIS, and shopping at Printemps Haussman, can not believe had forgotten to visit the new Vogue Café. Located in the atrium of the department store, the new pop-up café is said to have the itimate atmosphere of a private apartment.
IN A 15TH-CENTURY PALAZZO on the Grand Canal, the Gritti Palace hotel whisks us into an extraordinary world of silver-leafed ceilings and Venetian-stucco walls, Cremo...
SOME MAY ALREADY be acquainted with Aynhoe Park, a private home in the Cotswolds, an hour from London. With 15 bedroom suites and...
ONE OF OUR VERY FAVOURITE things to do is take to the open road on weekends, in search of new and...
DO YOU REMEMBER the Isabel Marant Spring/Summer 2014 show? It was all pretty pinks and ruffles and pastels, and have just come...
YOU MAY REMEMBER the Tiffany & Co. horse drawn carriage from this week’s inspiration links, by Carrie Harwood at Wish Wish Wish. Well today, she has published the rest of the photographs of Christmas-time in Paris...
AND THIS WEEK seems to be flying by, and yet, all around, there seems, at once, to be a stillness in the air, the calm before the holiday madness begins in a flurry of egg nog and last-minute shopping. Here, there are a million and one things still left to do...
A CHRISTMAS CAROUSEL has only just been set up in St. Andrews Square, and have already visited a few times,...
. . . came across some truly beautiful artwork by French artist Laurence Amélie, painted in an impressionist fashion, leaving free access to imagination . . .
AN OLD FOUR-STORY MANSION that was only opened as hotel in April 2010, the House Hotel in Galatasaray was originally...
THIS WEEK’S PLACES is Castello di Vicarello, Cinigiano, in Tuscany, a remote and romantic stone castle surrounded by grape vines and...
FOR THIS WEEK’S [PLACES], it’s away and off to La Socelière, a 17th-century chateau in the Loire Valley. Resting on nearly 20 acres of gardens, forest, and pasture, it is a wonderland of 1940s Italian rococo sofas and armchairs upholstered in purple velvet...