culture France
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Glasses: form and content The basic principle is simple: to avoid mixing wines and their flavors or forcing guests to drain their glasses in one gulp in order to change drink, there should be a glass available for each drink served during the meal. A French place setting will have a
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Mastering cutlery On parade Soup spoon, dessert spoons, knife, fish knife, cheese knife, oyster or cake forks ... how do we get our bearings in this jungle of cutlery in a place setting? There are a few simple rules governing this artificially complicated arrangement: one utensil (or pair of utensils) per
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World-class furniture and interior designer and decorator Christian Liaigre, with residential projects for Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld or Valentino, and interiors for New York’s Mercer Hotel or Selfridges of London as just a few samples of his work, needs no introduction. He is also the author of the iconic (and often
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Unmistakeably Cartier, discreetly Moinard, naturally St. Barth Working together brought astonishingly rapid results for both partners, Cartier being able to launch the revamping of 220 boutiques around the world according to Moinard’s radiant designs, and the architect himself being rewarded for this work by the Janus Prize in 2003 and the
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But how is the best wine in the world made? It all starts with an exceptional vineyard established by the Avignon popes in the fourteenth century on the banks of the Rhône. The estate of Paul Avril, who is the latest in a line of winegrowers going back to 1600, owns
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The Château Maris logo not only looks smart, it actually encapsulates the philosophy of the winemakers at work. It tells us that wine is not just a produce of nature, but that it is also the creation of a universal, open mind, not unlike that of what was once known as
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What could be more down to earth than a bottle of wine, produced by the slow process of a vine taking root in the dry soil of some ancestral ground? Yet some wines have a very close and ancient relationship with the sea. English spoken… Bordeaux is one such example as
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