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...And on my wishlist is a sculptural form by Kate Crassweller via L’Editions. I met Kate at university and we both moved to New York....
...“Anything below 1 per cent is really just clinging on now,” says David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...Becky O’Connor, head of pensions and savings at Interactive Investor, says renewable energy and environmental stocks and funds have proved popular with clients....
...Becky Metcalfe of London’s Chelsea Design Centre has seen an increase in consumer demand for craftsmanship across the board....
...Erling Kagge is author of ‘Silence, In the Age of Noise’, translated by Becky L Crook (Viking) and `Philosophy for Polar Explorers’ Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...This is an edited extract from ‘Silence, In the Age of Noise’ by Erling Kagge, translated by Becky L Crook (Viking)....
...“The first great pilote I talked to about joining Ferrari was [Ayrton] Senna, in September 1993, in my hotel room at Villa d’Este on Lake Como. He wanted to join, but only in 1994.”...
...We can also strongly recommend the fortified town of Este in the Euganean Hills....
...Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was found in October....
...The Villa d’Este at Tivoli was conceived as a stage set, teasing visitors with fountains, trompe l’oeil and erudite inscriptions. The first great age of garden tourism was in 18th-century England....
...“It’s almost quadrupled since then, but the other side of the road, where the houses are pied dans l’eau in Lake Geneva, is probably above SFr4,000 per sq m now,” he says....
...For mainland Europeans, there is no more coveted place to buy than on Lake Geneva, and Jeremy Rollason of Savills Alpine Homes says that properties pied dans l’eau will command a 100 per cent premium on...
...Garzón, a sleepy hamlet in eastern Uruguay, is just an hour’s drive inland from glitzy Punta del Este and even closer to celebrity-packed José Ignacio, yet it has none of those beach resorts’ glitter or...
...Frédéric Attar for L‘Univers de la Poignée, Tel: +33 (0)1-4227 1175; www.universdelapoignee.net...
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