House
Villa Sereine
Côte d'Azur, France
A 1968 hillside house reworked in lime plaster and bronze, set among original olive terraces with an uninterrupted line to the water. The kind of room that makes you lower your voice.
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SPACES WORTH THE JOURNEY
Places we have stood in, eaten in and slept in, and would return to tomorrow.
Interior
Appartement Murat
8e Arrondissement, Paris
Haussmann proportions left entirely alone — original parquet, marble chimneypieces, four balconies and afternoon light that crosses the whole enfilade. A home we return to in our minds often.
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Hotel
Masseria Lume
Valle d'Itria, Puglia
A seventeenth-century masseria brought back over nine years — a walled courtyard, vaulted rooms and eleven hectares of almond and olive. Eleven rooms, one long table, no reason to leave.
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Restaurant
Table d'Ambre
Menton, France
Twelve tables above the water, a zinc-and-brass bar and a menu that changes with the market. Book the corner by the window and stay until the candles burn low.
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Museum
Fondation Marbre
Antibes, France
A private collection housed in a converted shipyard — lime plaster, travertine and a single corridor of light that turns every afternoon. Go on a Tuesday, when it is almost empty.
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Gallery
Galerie Silex
Belleville, Paris
Two rooms behind a green door, run by a dealer who only shows what she would live with. The programme moves slowly — textile, ceramic, drawing — and the bench is worth the visit alone.
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Know a place we should see — a hotel, a restaurant, a gallery, a house with good bones? We are always looking.
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