feeling just fine
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feeling just fine You like the finer things in life. Fine linens, fine china, fine dining. But while a ten-country European tour filling your valises with far-flung treasures isn’t possible every year, we’ve found a chic Euro pied-a-terre where you’ll find everything at hand. Gastown’s beautiful new Farfalla is a calm oasis of real Irish linens, Portuguese bed sheets, and Marie-Antoinette-worthy mirrors with pale pink crystal flower frames made authentically in Italy. There are Czech chandeliers (from $375), etched crystal from Prague and Venetian velvet cushions made with a centuries-old technique. Get your pretty digits on beautiful tins of tea from France’s 150-year-old Hédiard or soap made from pure iris (great for oily complexions) and the Florentine perfumes from Santa Maria Novella are made as purely as they were in Danté’s time. And that is just fine with you. Buy wares now at Farfalla’s temporary store at 101-12 Water St., 604-215-8707. Call for relocation details. |