Charme also owns three other sexy furniture makers, Cassina, Cappellini and Thonet, and Ballantyne Scottish cashmere sweaters.

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The Decumani Hotel de Charme is fresh, elegant and in the former palazzo of Cardinal Sisto Riario Sforza, the last bishop of the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples.

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When chef David Zuddas ran the Michelin-starred Auberge de la Charme in the town of Prenois, in Burgundy, he never would have considered serving boeuf bourguignon, he said.

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