The plot of Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel hinges on a single, much-discussed painting: "Boy with Apple," a Renaissance masterpiece by the artist Johannes Van Hoytl the Younger. ("The rest of ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When I worked as a trainee at an ad agency in Mayfair in the early 2000s, hotel bars were the last word in ...