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I picked this up before a trip and the chapters on the hidden parties at Badrutt's Palace gave me such a sense of the era. Lardelli's writing moves easily between the glamour and the natural landscape, which I didn't expect from a coffee-table book.

The photos of Badrutt's Palace in winter are worth it alone. I didn't expect the section on the hidden royal parties to be this detailed, but Lardelli clearly did her homework. It's sitting on my coffee table now and guests keep picking it up.

The chapters on Chanel and Hitchcock's haunts were the draw for me, and they deliver. Only gripe is that the text leans a bit dry in places, but as a coffee-table book the photos carry it.