Apple reaches top of the world – but will it stay there? August 22, 2011 @steve_dinneen LAST week Apple achieved what even a year ago seemed all-but impossible – it became the biggest company in the world. In shuffling, albeit briefly, past oil giant Exxon Mobil, it joined an ultra-exclusive club of just 10 companies to have held the top spot in the history of the S&P 500. And unlike [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS August 22, 2011 BIGGEST FOOD EVENT OF THE YEAR: FRENCH LAUNDRY TO COME TO HARRODS Before Noma and the Fat Duck, the restaurant that usually vied with El Bulli for the “world’s best” title was California’s French Laundry. It’s still seen as one of the greatest places to eat on the planet (by the few who’ve managed to [...]
Make like Bond with an Aston in the Alps August 21, 2011 AMERICAN novelist Mark Twain wrote that rambling in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland was incomparable to any opiate, legal or otherwise. Imagine the rush, then, to be booming an Aston Martin V8 Vantage S round the picturesque, vertiginous Alpine passes, past crystal-clear glacier lakes and verdant valleys where cow bells jangle for miles. I’ve been let loose [...]
TRAVEL NOTES August 21, 2011 ESCAPE TO THE TOWN AND COUNTRY If you think you’ll be in need of a late summer escape, you can enjoy it in the town and in the countryside with a rather tempting partnership deal between the Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge and Cotswolds country house retreat Cowley Manor (pictured above). The package allows you a [...]
London trends: who’s moving the prime market higher? August 18, 2011 THE headlines are clear: core prime central London property – that is central London property at the very top of the market in places like Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Belgravia – is rocketing in value, keeping pace with gold as an asset class. Supply of these properties is now chronically low, adding even more upward price [...]
PROPERTY NEWS August 18, 2011 PROPERTIES GOING FAST IN WOODSIDE PARK Half of the apartments at the Wheston Lodge development in Woodside Park have sold in just three months. The development consists of 25 one and two bedroom apartments. Prices start at £275,000. Contact: Wheston Lodge on 020 8446 9136 or go to www.thornsettgroup. com. EQUESTRIAN PROPERTY BOLTING AHEAD Hamptons [...]
INTERIORS August 18, 2011 CREATIVE DIRECTOR AT DESIGN CONSULTANCY APD INTERIORS Q. I would like to liven up my home with wallpaper. What are the current trends? A. Wallpaper has had a revival in the last few years after falling out of fashion in favour of plain painted walls. The use of wallpaper adds detail to an interior and [...]
FOCUS ON: BOW, E3 August 18, 2011 COBOURN STREET Price: £1,395m This Victorian terrace house retains many of its period features. It has four bedrooms arranged across four floors. The interiors are well designed throughout. Contact: Foxtons’ Shoreditch office on 020 7033 1414 or go to www.foxtons.co.uk MEDWAY ROAD Price: £499,995 Located close to the Medway Conservation area, this four-bedroom Victorian town [...]
Great title, great stars, bland result August 18, 2011 Film COWBOYS & ALIENS Cert: 12A IT’S the best film title since Snakes on a Plane, and this would-be blockbuster also has two huge stars – Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford – on good form. Craig is especially memorable, riding into the dusty town of Absolution with no name, a mysterious shackle on his wrist, [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK FILMS, MUSIC, GAMES August 18, 2011 FILM KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS Marvel at Alec Guinness playing nine roles in this Ealing classic. SPY KIDS 4: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD 4D More kiddy-friendly action fun. IN A BETTER WORLD Tremendous Danish drama, winner of the Best Foreign Language Oscar. DVD SOURCE CODE This year’s Inception, an exhilirating tech thriller with [...]
