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  Chef Stéphane Mazières

  The only chef to be thus honored throughout the French West Indies and out of all the islands of the Atlantic and Pacific, Stéphane Mazières earned the coveted Taittinger Relais & Châteaux Grand Chef prize in 2010. A rare distinction in these parts, where major food critics rarely tread, the award more
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  Chef Philippe Masseglia

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  Christian Liaigre , islander extraordinaire

  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 more
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  chef Emmanuel Motte

  Emmanuel Motte has been at the helm of the Carl Gustaf restaurant for five years now. For inspiration, he turns to oriental influences, adapting spices and cooking methods to evolve a passionate fusion cuisine, “without the confusion”, he insists. He even introduces “a bit of molecular gastronomy when it makes a more
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  Alain Charlot, Photographer

  Alain Charlot, photographer, true poet, wary of words, speaks «To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge – and, therefore, like power». Susan Sontag’s remark applies just as easily to the viewer, provided his sensitivity is more
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  "A" As In Atelier

  Hortense n. f. A name to carry one back in time… and into the future. For Hortense is back en vogue. Mademoiselle Hortense : A strange, sensual name, to be carried as a challenge, proudly announcing it’s timeless feminity, a singular personality, moving gracefully from Impressionism to Art nouveau, at the more
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  Birds’ Views

  They live in the United States in Minnesota where winters are snowy, cold, and long, and coming to St. Barth where they rent a villa on the Saint Jean hillside is their idea of paradise. Having traveled to many of the Caribbean islands in the past, they have found none that more
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  Guillermo de Yavorsky, photographer,...

  « Call with… » His current project, after a series on South African soccer, is entitled “Skype Portraits”. In the course of conversations with friends, or with people contacted specially for the occasion, Guillermo photographs his computer screen, capturing a “communication moment” with correspondents often thousands of miles away. Grainy images, more