LUXE Link Roundup: Beef Club in Paris, Met Gala in NYC, and ‘Theatre of Nature’ in the Netherlands
BY The LUXE Editors
Paris' Beef Club Ballroom looks like our new favourite watering hole
Welcome back to our weekly LUXE Links, in which we source some of the week’s best reads from around the web and around the world. This week, behind the scenes at the Met Gala, a ‘Theatre of Nature’ in the Netherlands, and an extensive look at Paris’ The Beef Club. Get clickin’, chickens!
Burgers and cocktails at Paris’ Le Ballroom du Beef Club, from the owners of LUXE fave ECC. [HiP Paris]
More than 1,000 artists showcase at the 3-day Frieze Art Fair pop up on Randall’s Island, NYC. [Guardian UK]
A unique and ‘Modern Australian’ menu that wows at Cumulus Inc in Melbourne. [E-ting Food]
A behind the scenes with Olivier Theyskens and Caroline Trentini before this year’s Met Ball. [Into The Gloss]
Seven million square feet of flowers at the once-in-a-decade ‘Theatre of Nature’ in Venlo, southeast Netherlands. [New York Times]
LUXE Link Roundup: Olympic art in London, cocktails in Beijing, and more cocktails in Paris
BY The LUXE Editors
First look at Anna Dello Russo for H&M
Welcome back to our weekly LUXE Links, in which we source some of the week’s best reads from around the web and around the world. This week, a first look at the Olympic Park art, a tantalising tour of Tel Aviv, and a new Parisian cocktail club to get in line for. Get clickin’, chickens!
Our fave cocktail creators at Experimental Cocktail Club open new Paris speakeasy Le Ballroom du Beef Club [Travel + Leisure]
The Savoy London’s bartender heads to The Fairmont Beijing to teach ‘Master Class’ (hint: cocktail mixing and drinking) [Beijing Boyce]
A preview of the 26 installations at the Olympic Park’s ‘Art in the Park’ programme in London this summer [Creative Review]
First look at more-is-more connoisseur Anna Dello Russo’s accessories line for H&M – purses out [Refinery 29]
The seven must-sees of Tel Aviv, the NYC of Israel, from boutique hotel to retail haven to hipster hangout [Cool Hunting]
LUXE Link Roundup: 10 sweet signs of spring, the “caviar manicure”, and burgers in Berlin
BY The LUXE Editors
Party ready pout n’ polish
Welcome back to our weekly LUXE Links, in which we source some of the week’s best reads from around the web and around the world. This week, springtime in Paris, a backyard in Berlin, and a British Airways pop-up to book now. Get clickin’, chickens!
British Airways to host FlightBA2012, an Olympics-themed, cabin-shaped pop-up restaurant, from April 4-17. [Travel + Leisure]
Ten sweet signs that spring has sprung in Paris, from bare-legged belles to bouquinistes on the streets. [HiP Paris]
Katz Orange, a rustic-chic warehouse in a Bergstraße backyard, now serving venison burgers to hip Berliners [I Heart Berlin]
UK brand Ciate launches bonkers beauty kit for a “caviar manicure”, looks downright dee-lish [Fashionista]
8,000 sq ft spa opens in Glenmere Mansion, NY, with hammam rituals fit for Turkish royalty [T Magazine]
The LUXElife Q&A
The chic and cheeky Sophie Labbé
Since 1993, Sophie Labbé has been creating stunning scents for the style set – she counts Givenchy Very Irresistible, Bulgari Jasmin Noir, and Yves Saint Laurent Parisienne among her many ultra-femme fragrances. We sat down with Sophie when she came to town to promote her latest, Signorina, for Salvatore Ferragamo. Boasting key notes of jasmine and panna cotta, with patchouli base and pink pepper top notes, Signorina was made for the young-hearted and what Sophie calls the “chic and cheeky”. We picked her brain for tips and tricks, what she loves in Paris and where she wants to go next.
Going coo-coo for cocoa at Patrick Roger [photo: Paris by Mouth]
If you read our first guest post by Istanbul Eats, you’ll know that we’ve been asking some of our fave bloggers to appear here on LUXEtasy as occasional guest writers. This time, we bring you food-lovin’ Yankpats in Paris Barbra Austin and Meg Zimbeck, editors of the fabulous Paris By Mouth, a website dedicated to the edible pleasures in the City of Lights, with a crew of name-drop-worthy contributors. For LUXEtasy, the gals tell us their favourite sweets and where to get them. Hips be damned (or as Barbra suggests, get your leg over a Vélib’), et on y va!
Hell for leather at Pinel & Pinel
Here at LUXE, we’re always excited to find a man who’s good with his hands, and we like it even more when his services are made available to the public. Meet Fred Pinel, master craftsman and creator of deluxe, contemporary, hand-stitched leather luggage, trunks and accessories, who’s recently opened his first boutique, Pinel & Pinel, on rue Royal in Paris’ 8th arrondisement. So swish, c’est chic.
The LUXElife Q&A
Monsieur Lehanneur - not just a pretty face
Who is Mathieu Lehanneur? He may not be a household name, yet, but as one of the world’s leading industrial designers, his socially-conscious pieces are already in New York’s MoMA, and earned him the Carte Blanche award from VIA and an invitation to speak at a TED conference. Grounded in science and in fields as varied as biology, astrophysics and pharmaceuticals, his products prove form and function can be natural bedmates. This month, his soporific slumber booth ‘Once Upon a Dream’, specially designed for the reopening of Veuve Clicquot‘s Hôtel du Marc, will be featured at the Hong Kong International Art Fair thanks to the poppets at Veuve, the event’s official champagne partner.
Here, Mathieu takes a break to talk travel, design and what inspires him.
The LUXElife Q&A
Martine, so chic!
Martine Sitbon, current and founding designer of fab fash house Rue du Mail in Paris, previously Creative Director at Chloé and mentor to Phoebe Philo and Isabel Marant, flies remarkably under the radar. Described by Karl Lagerfeld as one of the last remaining living French designers, Martine whips up sharply tailored romantic-eclectic, rock glam frocks loved by style stars such as Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton. Here, Martine puts down her thimble and lifts the veil on her personal style tips for what to pack and fave places to hang in the Ville Lumière. Vive, Martine!
Dear hearts, LUXE and the lovelies at The Independent are at it again with our fortnightly column featuring the chicest shopping in our fave cities. This week, we cut the merde and take you on a sass-laden stroll through historic Marais’ rue Charlot in the beautiful City of Light, Paris.
Read what’s in store here, grab yourself a Paris guide and get to it.
The LUXElife Q&A
Show us your shoes, love
If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then the way to a woman’s is clearly via her feet, or specifically, shoes. And when it comes to shoes, there are few people who know better than Beatrix Ong, MBE, what women really want. The quiet high (heeled) achiever, who became Creative Director of Jimmy Choo at the tender age of 22, and now has her own label and a flagship store in London’s Chelsea, is loved by celebs and fash editors for her classic yet sexy, feminine with an edge footwear. We’re loving her new men’s and accessories collection too. Here, Beatrix puts her lalls up for a moment to talk travel and, what else…
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