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Hôtel Lou Pinet has reopened for the season, bringing its bohemian Saint-Tropez charm back to life just steps from Place des Lices. This summer, the hotel welcomes a new sculpture residency by Laurent Dufour with gallery Aurélien Gendras, alongside refreshed treatments at the Lou Pinet Spa featuring Tata Harper and the Head Spa by Leonor Greyl. Dining spans La Terrasse and Beefbar, while rooms feature Garnier Thiébaut linens and Diptyque amenities, designed by Charles Zana throughout
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Some of the top luxury fashion houses have headed to the shoreline this summer. Gucci marks the 60th birthday of its Flora print at La Rose des Vents in Monaco, Burberry dyes the Aegean turquoise at One&Only Aesthesis in Greece, and Missoni floods Ibiza's largest pool in emerald stripes. Jacquemus heads to Turkey's Bodrum coast, while Off-White brings its cross-arrow motif to Marbella
Rolls-Royce has pulled the covers off Project Nightingale. The first car in its new Coachbuild Collection is a fully electric open-top two-seater, and only 100 will ever be built. The name comes from Le Rossignol, a house next to Henry Royce's winter home on the Côte d'Azur, and the shape tips its hat to the marque's experimental streamliners of the 1920s. Chief Executive Chris Brownridge reckons it's the most extravagant thing the company can make today, while Director of Design Domagoj Dukec finds it both inevitable and unexpected. First deliveries land in 2028
motoring
We have eaten steak in a great many places, across a great many cities, and in a great many formats. Nothing prepared us for COTE Las Vegas. The world's only Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse, and the fourth outpost of Simon Kim's vision, delivered an evening so far beyond our expectations that we left struggling to identify a superlative adequate to the occasion. We visited for a celebration. It became, by unanimous agreement around the table, one of the best meals we ever had.
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No diesel, no fuel tanks, no engine room, and not a comfort lost along the way. Zero, the 68.9-metre ketch from Vitters, Vripack and Dykstra Naval Architects, runs on sun, wind and the water beneath her hull, cruising for two full weeks without a single stop to recharge. Better still, every calculation and design behind her is being shared for free, turning one bold boat into an open door for the whole industry