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If we’ve tempted you to investigate Italy at the La Dolce Vita event in London this weekend, be sure to locate stall G1 where you’ll see the lovely Aline and Sabine, and their Graham and Green-designed life-size boutique bolthole bedroom.
They’ll be able to tell you all about our Italy hotels and divulge some insider destination [...]
We’re honouring all things Italian at the moment, first with our run-down of the land’s finest foodie regions and now with our day-early winning hotel of the week – an Umbrian number in Norcia…
Style Aristocrat’s peaceful palace
Setting Narrow Norcian streets
Why this week? We like to be timely and there’s a massive Italian fair going on [...]
This weekend, another Hallmark-friendly holiday approaches, but this one really is worth celebrating. Rather than inscribing a heart-shaped ‘mum’ tattoo on your right bicep, show your affection with a sumptuous spa retreat (where you get to be perfectly pampered, too)…
Whatley Manor, Wiltshire
This historic hotel and spa in the West Country is grade II-listed Cotswold stone, [...]
The 2010 La Dolce Vita show is set to honour all things Italian this week. We’ll be there of course – look out for our Graham and Green-styled stall, G1. In greedy anticipation, we’re playing foodie Top Trumps with six of Italy’s regions, highlighting their signature plate-toppers and suggesting where to sleep off the calories…
UMBRIA
Countryside [...]
A flight to Geneva, a train to Martigny and a 100 minutes of driving will get you to Switzerland’s sunniest ski resort: Verbier. Nothing prepared me for quite how special a few days here would be: it’s upmarket but down-to-earth; sophisticated yet unsnooty; and when the weather’s right, it’s breathtakingly beautiful.
This weekend, it was fantastically [...]
Last week, we were asked to ferret out our finery and head west to Wales for a glitzy party on a former farm estate near Carmarthen. Armed with our Dylan Thomas verse, marsh-proof wellies and facial-thirsty faces, we willingly went to experience a night of canapés and cocktails in honour of the shiny new spa [...]
With the last of the fashion weeks causing catwalk-and-couture chaos in Paris, we’ve found some supermodel-worthy stays, dreamed up by designers usually famed for their frocks…
Christian Lacroix takes over in the capital of couture, Paris. He’s transformed the 400-year-old building of the Hôtel Notre Dame into a designer devotion to the city’s famous cathedral. He’s [...]
ALBUM OF THE MONTH
The Family Jewels by Marina & the Diamonds
When? You’re planning the soundtrack to summer 2010
Why? She has the twinkle to be a star and the songs to prove it
It is a particular brand of Top-Shop-pop that will take Marina Diamandis from obscurity to the mainstream. Like Little Boots, who walked a [...]
