Followed by a Gourmet Gazette Slideshow Paris, France — A world of treasures is unfolding at the MAD, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, in Paris. A world filled with fine crafts, gemstones, […]
An Exhibition of Excellence: Luxurious Luxuries
Moments in Time for a Champion with Richard Mille
When French skier Alexis Pinturault lifted the Crystal Globe of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup into the air last March 20th in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, it was a prophetic moment. He turned […]
Moments in Time: Golden Globe Time with Jaeger-LeCoultre
At-home glamor was the big star at the 78th Golden Globe awards which saw nominees watching from home or hotel rooms, many of them all dressed up in their finest. Couture watches […]
Moments in Time: Celebrating 220 Years of the Tourbillon with Breguet
It is the year of the tourbillon, this complication that is added into the mechanics of a watch to increase its accuracy. Tourbillon means whirlwind in French and that is one of […]
A Fantastical Lizard Comes to Light
Paris, France — Dragons and dinosaurs have fascinated for millennium. So when a new species of a marine lizard, which resembles both a dragon and a dinosaur, is discovered and identified, it […]
In Reverence to Rare Birds
Birds have fascinated the planet from the very beginning. Colorful, vocal, they fly (most of them do anyway), they seem to be around all of the time, singing in the garden, jaunting […]
A Resplendent Renaissance Looms at the Louvre
Paris-France — They are looming, looming magnificent statues in one of the finest exhibitions of Renaissance sculpture to be presented in France. And now they are looming, alone in the Louvre, waiting […]
A Charismatic Castle Makes a Rare Request
Chantilly, France — It is one of the crown jewels of France. The Domain of Chantilly is home to the second largest collection of old paintings in France after the Louvre, the […]
Dining with the French, The Art of French Table Arts Featuring a Gourmet Gazette Slide Show at the End of the Article
Sèvres, France —A 16th century blown glass and gold-rimmed glass made in Venice, a knife and fork with coral handles for savoring fish, a teapot in the shape of an eggplant are […]
Of Elegance and Style: the Unique Universe of Gabrielle Chanel with a Gourmet Gazette Slide Show
Long Read Paris, France — Her long life began in in 1883 when she was born in the Saumur Hospice in the Maine-et-Loire region in Western France to a family with a […]
