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...Destitute and unwell, the painter lived on Hiva Oa in his two-story thatched Maison du Jouir, or "House of Bliss." A former stockbroker, Gauguin had left his wife and five children years earlier to pursue his artistic dream at the end of the earth. (One of his letters home explains: "Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.") He took up with various Polynesian women, and his freewheeling ways made the local missionaries livid. Less than two years after his arrival, he was dead...
...back of the museum is a reconstruction of the Maison du Jouir, complete with a reproduction of Gauguin's elaborate front-door frame that reads in French: "Be mysterious ... Be loving and you will be happy." A wax figure of the artist with palette eerily stands at one end of the house...
...cooking, even echoing its play on layering, textures and translucency with floating suede panels on the walls. "Quite simply there was a meeting of minds and a shared sense of family and history with the hotel," explains Pic, who made her reputation at her fourth-generation family property, Maison...
...Alongside her highly contrasted menu ("Crisp and soft, sweet and acidulated, light and intense"), Pic serves the legendary crayfish au gratin and bass with caviar - the dishes created by her grandfather André and father Jacques that first helped win Maison Pic three-star status. "Flavors are such an important part of our memory," she explains with feeling. "This is the way forward - to know the best from before, but to continue to find my own creative culinary path." Find out more at www.brp.ch...
Decadence. Famed French chocolatier, La Maison du Chocolate, has red jewel boxes of assorted chocolates, including passion fruit ganache and caramel fleur de sel, with just a hint of sea salt, starting...