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Saint Roch opens this December 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 mountain home, with 37 rooms and suites, architecture by Friedmann & Versace, and interiors that travel east to Slavic dachas and ancient Persia. A spa modelled on Ottoman hammams sits below, and the 3 Vallées waits directly outside the door
travel
Bvlgari Resort Ranfushi will bring the Roman house to the Maldives for the first time, on a 20-hectare island in the Raa Atoll reached by seaplane from Malé. Fifty-four keys, 33 of them Beach Villas with private pools, sit alongside 20 Overwater Villas and a Bvlgari Villa occupying its own island entirely. ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel leads the design, Il Ristorante - Niko Romito and Hōseki lead the dining, and the whole thing is built to the group's highest sustainability standards
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
Built with Sunreef Yachts, the BRABUS Ultima 55 is a 17 metre multihull wrapped in carbon fibre, driven by twin 725 hp six cylinder engines and lifted clear of the water by a hydrofoil system. Top speed runs past 40 knots. Constantin Buschmann and his team have produced a yacht with the manners of a supercar, and an aft deck that widens to 7.6 metres once the anchor is down