Lausanne’s L’Art de Vivre
A multi-level city rising on the northern banks of Lake Léman, Lausanne reveals its medieval origins with a series of staircases scattered throughout its old town where the river Flon once flowed.
The fragrant beauty of Ireland’s ‘Bitter End’
There’s much to be said for bitter – and not all of it negative. One of the four primary taste sensations, bitter resides at the very back of the tongue at the farthest remove from the lips. Bittersweet, for example, offers exactly what it promises,…
Try Swedish: A Taste of the North
In a country that is nearly 97% uninhabited, culinary treasures await those who forage the wild: cloudberries and dewberries, chanterelles and ceps – and a strain of the fabled Burgundy truffle. All this and more in the third largest country in the…
California Dreams at WeHo’s Schindler House
Los Angeles owes much to European émigrés – and particularly to those in the arts. Rudolph Schindler arrived in the States in 1914 with a fervent desire to meet and work with Frank Lloyd Wright. The young architect settled first in Chicago, overseeing…
Geneva Luxury
Some cities are readily identifiable with a single word or image: say the word “watch” or view a water plume shooting into the sky – and it’s obvious the city is Geneva, the irrepressibly romantic city situated between the Alps and the Jura.
The Sweet Circus Smells of PC02
For many people, fragrance is one part of a personal signature. You’ve got to love a company that eschews mass adulation and says, “[This] is not a scent for the masses.” Produced by the Berlin-based Biehl Parfumkunstwerke, PC02 is French perfumer…
Fall at The Frick, Manhattan’s Beaux-Arts Gem
For many people, The Frick Collection, located on the Upper East Side in the erstwhile Beaux-Arts mansion of 19th-century tycoon Henry Clay Frick, has long been their “idealized” home away from home: a sanctuary of gracious rooms to which they return for…
Luminous Lucerne
Sometimes referred to as Switzerland’s “City of Light,” Lucerne is home to two of the most photographed sights in all of Europe: the continent’s oldest covered bridge and the Lion Monument.