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...handsome sideboard. In the kitchen are stacks of exquisite porcelain and a little gathering of tiny figures, each designed to hold toothpicks. "I only buy what I like to have in my home," says Ravestijn, of her house where everything?from the 18th century glass jars in the sumptuous bathroom to a sharkskin box holding fruit knives?is for sale. Ravestijn, a renowned antiques dealer for over 20 years, gave up her city shop when it became tiresome not being able to see the treasures she had collected. Now they are grouped like exquisite Dutch Old Master still lifes...
Maia, an ultra-luxurious resort in the Seychelles, may offer canoeing, fishing and snorkeling excursions, but our tip is to give them all a miss. This seven-month-old property is instead made for mooching on an opulent scale. Picture 30 sumptuous villas, spread over 12 hectares next to secluded Anse Louis beach, and appointed with every comfort. Private gazebos offer sweeping views of the Indian Ocean, but the scenery is best enjoyed from your own plunge pool with a glass of champagne. The service is designed for solitude seekers: you can stay cocooned, interacting with a personal butler whose...
There's a lot of amusing interaction but not much of a plot. Eventually these wayward but well-meaning souls relocate to the impossibly sumptuous estate of a Russian mogul. You know all the while that there's a parched, nasty world out there, just waiting to correct their follies, and that the consolations of love and sex and art, which Smiley endorses all through this lovely book, won't really protect them. But our author lives up to her name in the best way. She blesses those people, shortcomings...
...Russians Are Back In the mid-1990s, in the first flush of economic and political freedom, you couldn't walk into a high-end store in Davos without tripping over some Russian businessman's "executive assistant," usually decked out in a sumptuous fur coat...
...have suited his subject perfectly. Degas was a reserved, withdrawn soul who poured most of his energies into painting and drawing. There were rumors that the artist, a life-long bachelor, did not care much for women. The evidence, Sutton decides, is inconclusive. But look at the pictures this sumptuous book provides: achingly beautiful renderings of women toweling down after baths, the delicate pastels of ballerinas in various postures of strain and repose. What his life may have lacked was translated into scenes for posterity to cherish...