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Artistic encounters
Love Leonardo, revel in Rembrandt, marvel at Hans Holbein the Younger and see more of the finest Old Master European Portrait Drawings from the Renaissance to the Baroque at…
THE TRAVEL MEMO
What constitutes a good holiday? For us it’s the opportunity to discover a new hotel with inspiring design and details, the luxury of some me-time spent on a beach or in a spa, savouring an unfamiliar cuisine or relaxing in an al fresco café. It’s also about the thrill of finding a new brand whilst shopping, as well as taking in an art gallery or must-see museum exhibition. Combining an appreciation of design, fashion, beauty and the art of travelling in style, The Travel Memo is compiled by likeminded editors who have travelled extensively for work and pleasure. These are our memos.
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La Vie en Rose
The world’s largest summer festival of flowers, RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, this year is a fiesta of fine food and global garden designs, where experts advise and…
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The Big Reveal
To celebrate the spectacular new V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, opened by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge on 29th June, the V&A is hosting a week-long public REVEAL Festival of arts,…
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A Scentsational Exhibition
The preview of PERFUME: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent at Somerset House took place in heatwave London. Inside, were a scent-sational series of ten surprising, tactile art installations (great…
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Crowning Glories at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
As London’s famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show dazzled and delighted global visitors, international fashion designer Amanda Wakeley invited her guests to a creative evening workshop of fine floristry (and fun)…
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Absent Friends
Now you see them, now you don’t; Absent Friends by Howard Hodgkin is this Spring’s must-go to new art exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery London, featuring loans from world collections.…
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Unseen Moscow: Up In The Clouds
At London’s new Design Museum the topical exhibition Imagine Moscow, Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution reveals a striking, futuristic vision of the reborn capital city after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Centred around Red…
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Ready for Rauschenberg?
Travel to Tate Modern, London’s top exhibition space for international modern art, to marvel at this first, posthumous, ravishing retrospective on trailblazing American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1928 – 2008) co-organised…
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The Fab Four: new hotels in the Maldives
Because we can’t get enough of over-water villas or pristine sand, especially at this time of year, here are some of the hottest new openings in the Maldives. Perfect for…
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Travelling by the Book
2016 has been the Year of the Garden in England commemorating the tercentenary of landscape designer, Capability Brown, while during 2017 the Year of Literary Heroes will celebrate some of…
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Claridge’s at Christmas
There are seasonal markers in London to denote the start of the festive season. The unveiling of Selfridge’s windows is one. This year’s theme is called Shine On (apparently ‘Alpine rave…
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Once upon a time…
Silk mice, giant carved pumpkins, jewelled shoes, the seven dwarves and tinsel dresses? You might be right in thinking these are Walt Disney ‘basics’ but they are in fact part…