A glorious gift of European artworks at NY’s Metropolitan Museum
Selections from the trove donated by the late Jayne Wrightsman includes stunning works by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Jean...
Venice rises from the waves
Andrea Grisdale of Travel and Leisure writes: When I heard that Mayor Luigi Brugnaro declared a state of emergency after...
Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us Is a Brutal Look at a 30-Year-Old Injustice
This is what 47 Plus settled down with on a grey Saturday afternoon - a new Netflix miniseries about the...
Paris for the very first time
Paris by night Paris in the smog So, a friend has hit 47, and this is the first opportunity to...
The Hotel de Russie at Sunday brunch – a star-studded event
This story is about four things: The Hotel de Russie's garden, the power of the unexpected, the benefits of solo...
The Cipriani dream turns 60 – and it’s better than ever
Quite some time ago, I was sent, like a piece of baggage, to the Cipriani in Venice. Lana Dopper, then...
10 questions with Giampaolo Ottazzi of the Belmond Hotel Cipriani
Born in Genoa, Giampaolo Ottazzi has worked in luxury hotels for more than 35 years. Now Direttore D'Albergo presso (General...
When fashion loses its meaning, it’s time for style
Fashion has entered a state of pure postmodernism where anything goes and nothing means anything anymore, argues Eugene Rabkin. In...