TRAVEL NOTES June 13, 2010 Summer savings in Mauritius Escape unreliable British weather with a trip to this heavenly Ayurvedic retreat in Mauritius, currently offering savings to the tune of £1,525 per person. If you stay seven nights you get a reduced room rate as well as a free daily round of golf. Seven days from £1,455 per person. Includes [...]
How to fill your pockets June 13, 2010 1 Aspinal of London billfold coin wallet, £59, www.aspinaloflondon.com 2 Mulberry zip around wallet, £165, www.mulberry.com 3 Louis Vuitton Utah leather cards and bill holder, £375, www.louisvuitton.com 4 Berluti Caiac pocket organiser, £280, www.berluti.com 5 Dunhill ostrich leather coat wallet, £585, www.dunhill.com 6 Zilli Traveller wallet, £4,825, www.zilli.fr 7 Simon Carter travelcard wallet, £49, www.simoncarter.net [...]
TO VENT? OR JUST TO FLAP June 13, 2010 Style Counsel CAMERON and Clegg may be just about succeeding in diverting attention away from their differences, but as any seasoned politico will know, it’s in the fine details that things get interesting – which is also what a tailor would say. When the new Prime Minister and his deputy appeared for the first time [...]
MEN’S FASHION NEWS June 13, 2010 CITY GETS GIEVES AND HAWKES Anyone walking through Leadenhall Market recently should have noticed the arrival of the spectacularly swanky new shop from Savile Row tailoring institution Gieves & Hawkes. In a Georgian building on Lime Street it covers 1,000 square feet, and looks as smart as a St James gentlemen’s club with oak floors, [...]
Sun, sea, safari, wine… Welcome to paradise on earth June 10, 2010 IN 2005, South Africa’s property market was the fastest growing in the world. Although its rate of growth has slowed, property in Africa’s most developed economy is increasingly in hot demand. This appetite has been fuelled in part by the World Cup, but more sustainably by the fact that at last, foreigners are catching on [...]
FOCUS ON: HARLOW, ESSEX June 10, 2010 APPLEBY Price: £885,000 A late Victorian detached house, this five double bedroom property is ideal for families. It is set in grounds of 0.3 acres and also has a detached coach house – perfect for an annexe or a home office. There are four reception rooms, including a separate dining room and a conservatory. There [...]
INTERIORS June 10, 2010 Andrew Dunning HEAD DESIGNER, APD INTERIORS Q. Dear Andrew, I am thinking about replacing my kitchen. How should I go about doing this? A. Before you get carried away with designing your new kitchen, make a detailed plan of the space – measure everything, note where the water and power points are. While you do [...]
Honeypot homes are luring buyers up to Stanmore June 10, 2010 STEPPING off the end of a Tube line seems like entering a vacuum to most Londoners. One imagines a tangle of motorways, perhaps. Some cows. A few car parks. Visitors to Stanmore might be surprised. Stanmore is a place whose name anyone who regularly rides the Jubilee line will have heard, but the town is [...]
Hollywood gets the NYPD blues June 10, 2010 Film BROOKLYN’S FINEST Cert: 18 This gritty police drama sees director Antoine Fuqua return to the familiar territory with which he made his name in 2001’s Training Day. Fuqua assembles an impressive cast including Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle, and fans of The Wire will notice a few familiar faces from the cast. [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND June 10, 2010 FILM LETTERS TO JULIET Romantic drama set in picturesque Italy, with Amanda Seyfried. BLACK DEATH Medieval twaddle – you know, swords, mud, plague – with Sean Bean. H2OIL Documentary about the oil industry. Did someone say “timely”? DVD A SINGLE MAN Colin Firth is on Oscar-nominated form in Tom Ford’s super-stylish drama. A PROPHET Magnificent, [...]