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...Each piece is named after neoclassicism and Greco-Roman mythology: the Sparta sofa (£8,400), the Palladio floor mirror (£3,895), the Roman column (£2,895) or the Venus floor lamp (£3,795) and so on....
...Earlier, she had spoken about “the danger of being an instrument”, and her awareness that a show in Moscow at a place like Garage, which was co-founded by Roman Abramovich, could potentially be used to burnish...
...An extraordinary event known as La Macchina di Santa Rosa has taken place here every year since 1258 to mark the funeral procession of a revered local saint....
...Daphne’s, 112 Draycott Avenue, London SW3; daphnes-restaurant.co.uk Bacchanalia Mayfair The Greco-Roman decor of Richard Caring’s new restaurant, envisaged by designer Martin Brudnizki, is worth a visit...
...Sky Alps, from €135, skyalps.com; Rosa Alpina, from €620, rosalpina.it....
...Rosa Gardenia, a new fragrance created for the anniversary, draws on a similar scent in the archive....
...“We have seen our customers gravitate towards chokers, by Lauren Rubinski, for example, while beads have also proven popular from brands such as Rosa de la Cruz, Jacquie Aiche and Diane Kordas....
...Think Monty Python Romans. Two of them were carrying recycling bags full of cans and put them in the correct bins on the way out....
...There is Rosa, whose portrait Iturbide took in Juchitán, southern Mexico, in 1979, naked but with little sense of vulnerability as she enters a grimy shower block....
...Letto Singolo portrays a pale-blue room with a single bed and unadorned furnishings, while La Tenda Rosa depicts a dusky-hued chamber with a simple clock and candle by the bedside....
...Seneca, the ancient Roman philosopher, got to the core of our troubles with time in a famous letter known by the title On the Shortness of Life....
...Two millennia before, the Romans sacked the original, only to turn against themselves in the ensuing peace....
...Tanika Wisdom, a buyer for UK luxury retailer Matchesfashion, has seen coin jewellery sales by designers Dubini, Rosa de la Cruz and others rise by 240 per cent last year....
...Fisher advises buying pieces with interesting surfaces and integrity but he’s also happy to fake it – the rear “Roman villa” wall was built with breeze blocks, rendered and then painted in a burnt ochre....
...In the Hellenic and Roman eras, island towns were built closer to sea level. But with the dark ages came pirates and invaders, and settlements moved into the hills....
...Among the neo-Roman grandeur was the bathos of washing-machine tariffs and soyabean shipments....
...Hence the proliferation of “rosa” gemstones sourced recently by Veneruz with gemmologist Loredana Sangiovanni....
...Additional reporting by Jude Webber in Mexico City and Roman Olearchyk in Kyiv...
...The subject has been examined before, perhaps most obviously in Roman Polanski’s 2002 film The Pianist, based on the memoir of Polish composer Władysław Szpilman....
...Venice’s oldest pasticceria, Rosa Salva, is next door so breakfast is easily taken care of. (I’d recommend its marmalade-filled cornetti.)...
...Rosa Feola’s slickly acrobatic Norina could have been feistier, while the energetic Mattia Olivieri sounded slightly green as Malatesta....
...ham croquetas “in the style of Ana”, the chef and Vidal’s wife (the restaurant has been in the family for more than 60 years)....
...JM I quote Gore Vidal’s dictum that craft must always be the same, art must always be different. I don’t necessarily agree with those stipulations....
...He also bought 12 paintings in Rome, including Domenichino’s fine “Madonna della Rosa”....
...The Greeks had invented “nature” ages before, as all their readers, even Romans, well knew....
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