Chef Arnaud Donckele describes the time he caught the scent of a passerby and froze from the intoxicating intoxication of it all. “Has this ever happened to you?” he asks from the cigar lounge at the back of Plénitude, located inside the five-star Cheval Blanc Paris hotel, opposite the Pont Neuf, which opened last fall […]
Morning wars (Apple TV +)What: The Italian refuge of disgraced anchor Mitch Kessler.Or: Pasadena, California. Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) and Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) have a drink in his “Italian” retreat.Credit:Apple TV + The supposed Lake Como villa where Mitch (Steve Carell) is hiding after being fired over his sexual assault allegations isn’t in Italy […]
When the bell boy at the new Bulgari hotel in Paris took my luggage at the start of a recent stay, he asked me what I thought of the place. After I told him that I found him quite stylish, he replied: “It’s Italian”, then, without wasting time, “A mixture of French and Italian style. […]
(The hotel Meurice) Paris is back in service. Going back and forth means jumping through all the usual Covid hoops, but boy, it’s worth it. Restaurants and bars are open – hurray! – shops, ditto, and museums are not only open, but less crowded than the pre-pandemic peak – with a pre-booked ticket, you enter […]
P aris is back in business. Going back and forth means jumping through all the usual Covid hoops, but boy, it’s worth it. Restaurants and bars are open – hurray! – shops, ditto, and museums are not only open, but less crowded than the pre-pandemic peak – with a pre-booked ticket, you enter the Louvre […]
It all started with a piano and a chance encounter in Paris. “The apartment has been in the family since the end of the 1970s,” explains the Beirut woman about her home, located not far from the Arc de Triomphe. “The previous owner had this piano and said, ‘If you want the apartment, you have […]
In the background is a vintage Florence Knoll rosewood cabinet from the 1960s. The “pills” are a lamp by Cesare Casate and Emanuele Ponzi, 1960. The pendant light is RAAK. On the walls: a blue lithograph by François Morellet entitled 1000 Squares, and a work by Philippe Pasqua from 2010. Fashion insider Edouard Schneider tastes […]
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Years ago, we showed a tiny apartment for a family of four in Paris and readers were appalled, suggesting that child welfare services should be called. But if you have an apartment in a nice part of Paris or Rome, you don’t give it up. ; kids come and go, but a good apartment in […]
Portrait of Jonathan Wray seated on a sofa Gaetano Pesce circa 1990 and Julien Sebban. The curtains and the carpet are signed Uchronia. How does a young “it” architect of the Parisian scene go through a year of ups and downs? By being creative, of course. Julien Sebban, 27, is the founder of the creation […]
The George V hotel in Paris is an establishment of exceptional high hospitality in a city that abounds in it. It has been without a host since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, but that will change later this month when it opens its golden doors again. Following the reopening of its Michelin-starred restaurant, Le […]
“I think I could go vegetarian,” said my travel mate Mads, as she made her way through a 24 oz. sirloin steak. We looked at her and burst out laughing. Not today, Mads. Not today. Right in front of the Bellagio fountains on the Las Vegas Strip, turn at the Eiffel Tower towards Paris, cross […]
It was undoubtedly inevitable that Joseph Dirand launched into architecture and that his brother Adrien turned to photography. The couple was the son of Jacques Dirand, one of the greatest photographers in the world of decoration. Throughout their childhood in Paris, they hovered over the light box, magnifying glass in their eyes, and gazed at […]
If you want to know what it’s like to live like a Parisian, book one of the four sprawling new apartment-style suites at the historic Hotel Barrière Le Fouquet’s Paris on the famous Champs-Elysées. Unveiled this fall, the classic Haussmann-style suites exude coveted French elegance with sleek decor, high ceilings and expansive windows with stunning […]
Reading time: 4 minutes Le Cinq, the dining room of the Hotel George V When we were dating my future wife made the mistake of mentioning that it would be nice to stay at the Four Seasons George V with me in Paris. I took this inactive conversation as a mission. Twenty years have passed, […]
“Space, light and order,” said Le Corbusier, a pioneer of modern architecture and town planning. “These are the things that men need as much as bread or a place to sleep.” All three can be found in abundance in the bright Parisian studio and apartment of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, the Franco-Swiss painter and architect who lived […]
In “The Violet Hour”, the first episode of Matthew Weiner’s anthology series The Romanoffs, one character really steals the show: Anastasia La Charnay’s (Marthe Keller) apartment. According to Anastasia, an extremely elegant and cantankerous French aristocrat, the Parisian apartment was once the place where Grand Duke Alexei (her alleged great-great-grandfather) kept his mistresses – still […]
Hugo & Cie Since affordable rents made the 11th arrondissement the most popular for young Parisian chefs opening their own restaurants, the scene in the 5th arrondissement’s Latin Quarter – traditionally one of the capital’s youngest neighborhoods but increasingly recently gentrified – is rather quiet. It’s no surprise then that chef Tomy Gousset’s excellent new […]
Pthe century-old apartment buildings of aris, before Haussmann took over the planning of the city, are discreet places, hidden behind huge doors opening onto the street. Usually a small door is recessed inside. Cross over and, in the case of Victoire de Taillac, you enter a courtyard with a large staircase leading off to the […]
Le Cinq, Four Seasons Hotel George V, 31 avenue George V, 75008 Paris (00 331 49 52 71 54). Meal for two, service and modest wine included: € 600 (£ 520) There is only one thing worse than having a horrible meal served – having a horrible meal served by serious waiters who have no […]
PARIS – Does Paris get its answer at the Chiltern Firehouse in London (minus hotel rooms)? The seafood establishment Le Divellec, long a sanctuary for politicians thanks to its location a stone’s throw from parliament, ministries and embassies, is back with a new name and a fashionable atmosphere. Now known as Divellec, the restaurant has […]
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Nestled in a secret passage in the magnificent picturesque district of Montmartre in Paris, it is at the Hôtel Particulier Montmartre, the former residence of the Hermès family, that the biggest stars of the world like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and Robert Downey Jr. spend the night in the City of Lights. In the […]
The place you want to go: Restaurant David Toutain Courtesy restaurant David Toutain After having trained in some of the most popular kitchens in the city – Bernard Loiseau, Marc Veyrat and Alain Passard among them – and having collected laurels at Agapé Substance, chef David Toutain opened his own restaurant in 2013 – and […]