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Saint Roch opens this winter on the Bellecôte piste, the fifth Maisons Pariente address in France and the second in the Alps. Leslie Kouhana and Kimberley Cohen have rebuilt a Courchevel 1850 institution as a private winter home, with 37 rooms and suites, architecture by Friedmann & Versace, and a spa drawn from Ottoman hammams and Caucasian palaces. The 3 Vallées begins at the door, an on-site ski shop handles the mornings, and two Prestige Suites can be joined to take the whole of the fifth floor
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Twelve honey-coloured stone houses crown a hilltop in the Vaucluse, turned towards Mont Ventoux. Crillon le Brave reopened this spring with three renovated houses, a rebuilt spa, a second pool and Maison Tilleul. Autumn and winter deliver a superb programme: harvest day at Chêne Bleu with Chef Guillaume Delauné, Claire Borwin's wellness retreats, Halloween in the village, truffle weekends with the Jaumard brothers and Chef Thomas Lesage, and a December brunch led by florist Nicole Marcoe
Ferrari has pulled the covers off the CZ26 at Monterey, a one-off built for a single client in the United States and drawn by the Ferrari Design Studio under Flavio Manzoni. Underneath sits the SF90 Stradale, which means 1000 cv, 2.5 seconds to 100 km/h and 328 km/h flat out. On top sits a body nobody else will ever own, painted in liquid silver, with 3D-printed seat inserts and a tail cut off flat at the back. Two years of work, one car, no repeats
motoring
Milan's most sought-after seafood house has chosen Whitehall for its British debut. Langosteria's first UK opening takes residence at Raffles London at The OWO, bringing nine restaurants' worth of Italian pedigree with it. Seafood arrives from Italy, Spain, France and Scotland, chosen purely on quality, and the menu pairs the group's signature plates with a handful written for London alone
food & drink
Ten days of open ocean, 2,400 square metres of sail and a yacht widely held to be among the most beautiful ever built. Jumeirah's newest Jumeirah Privé experience sends The Maltese Falcon from Gran Canaria to Antigua this December, opening up a passage the 88-metre superyacht has made twice a year since 2006 and never once with guests aboard. One private group takes the whole vessel, along with the kitchens, wellness team and service that have made the brand's name, on a crossing built entirely around the pleasure of being at sea