French renaissance

Stylish city hotels for elegant travellers, featuring a Milanese design icon, a New York sanctuary and our favourite Parisian hideaways

Lydia Slater writes a love letter to Le Bristol on the occasion of its 100th anniversary

Lisa Hilton is wowed by a French bistrot in Fulham

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Inspired by the opulence of Versailles and the 1930s, the grandness of this Parisian apartment is offset by striking contemporary gestures and a touch of DIY

Catherine Fairweather finds a dream-like world of old-school glamour aboard the new Orient Express journey from Rome to Venice, where ancient ruins melt into rolling Italian landscapes steeped in Renaissance romance