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Tour of Beauty opts for green brands

The babbling canal, the lush trees, a quacking duck family. Tour of Beauty brings you closer to nature. A green welcome with sustainable products also awaits you in the salon. Here you can unwind and enjoy good old-fashioned hospitality. Tour of Beauty That...

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Allie and Alain Simonis in Encore

Another new project for Simonis fish family

Even though he and his now-deceased brother Herman built their grandparents' eel-smoking business into a veritable empire, Allie Simonis still calls himself a fishmonger. Catch in the Second Harbour For this pater familias, no fancy suit and frills. This afternoon he sits...

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The Hague Central 2021

Entrepreneurial glossy with an eye on the future

"A magazine about everything that makes life in The Hague fun," is how editor-in-chief Annerieke Simeone describes her annual entrepreneurial glossy Bij Ons In De Residentie (BOIDR). And that there is plenty to report on the good life in the residence is evident from the anniversary issue,...

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BOIDR Telegraph 2021 launch

Garoeda resurrects as Garuda

Inside the trendy restaurant in The Hague, publisher Annerieke Simeone handed out the new edition of her annual glossy magazine on the city of hague to a host of (former) Hagenaars. Among them exhibition maker Nicole Uniquole, recently named woman of the week by fashion and culture magazine Harpers Bazaar....

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LaunchBOIDR2020 Editor-in-Chief Annerieke Simeone And Alderman Saskia Bruines

'Hopefully, we are giving entrepreneurs heart in these difficult times'

Richard de Mos The D66 politician, whose connection to The Hague is mainly her husband raised in the residence, has had a turbulent time in City Hall. Aldermen Richard de Mos and Rachid Guernaoui, the latter a former party colleague, had to resign on suspicion of...

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'Our new project will be five times bigger than now'

The cocktail shaker rattles on. It is Friday afternoon and restaurant Encore by Simonis is slowly filling up. Two gentlemen at the bar wait for their eldorado negroni. Further along, a group of guests are being served sushi and tempura. "Mmm, this spicy tuna maki is really tasty," says someone....

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studio t wout

This designer couple lives in their own concept store

No, we really haven't had anything to drink, and yet at the top of the stairs of Studio van 't Wout, interior architects, we see a pink elephant. The little wooden artwork is part of Arie and Saskia Alderliesten's concept store as well as their home. Panorama Mesdag The showroom/store...

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Tour of Beauty

Perhaps The Hague's most beautiful beauty boutique

After pressing the golden bell of Hay Street 7, the heavy door swings open inside. Huh, is this a boutique hotel? What an atmosphere, what a place. Right in the middle of Neighbourhood 2005. Tour of Beauty's owner Léonie Vermeulen smiles: "That's exactly the experience....

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