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...This has long been the ritual at the 100,000sq m site that lies 6km north of Florence. It takes 10 years to be considered a master in a single art of porcelain production....
...“I’m obsessed with fully carpeted rooms,” says Billy Cotton, the American designer behind the creative, often flamboyant interiors of artists including Cindy Sherman and Lisa Yuskavage....
...I’m living here while I’m renovating a farmhouse across the valley – the oldest parts of which date from the 1690s....
...“I’m a decorator by trade,” he says. “But I’m weirdly anti-decoration. I hate anything too done-up or perfect – and I always approach rooms furniture-first.”...
...Beyond the boundaries of his front door, however, when someone other than his little Havanese dog will see him, it’s a different story: “If I’m out in the world socialising then I’m wearing Rick Owens,”...
...I don’t believe I’ve ever been bored in my 83 years, and I’m sure I’m not alone. After all, the word itself didn’t even exist before the start of the 19th century — or is that a boring detail?...
How Caryn Hibbert turned a bucolic country retreat into a holistic – and lifestyle – destination
...Conceived as compact apartments rather than oversized suites (the largest of which is just over 74sq m), the pristinely formed pieds-à-terre are layered with Crawford’s sharp edit of old and new Scandinavian...
...“As long as I’m alive, I have to create,” says jeweller Maria da Conceição de Moura Borges (known simply as Kukas)....
...I’m possibly the only person who still buys CDs. I have this crazy notion that my kids might pull a CD off the shelf rather than searching online. So when I’m in town, I stock up at Fopp....
...I like to listen to it while I’m working. Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of the late British producer and DJ Andrew Weatherall....
...A later search turned up a handwritten note: “if they break the btc codes, I’m dead”. When asked to explain what it meant in court, Wen rambled, seemingly in anguish....
...“I’m never fully off because I’m never fully on,” he said, speaking to me as his psychotherapist....
...People always think I’m the wild one, but Hugo also loves to shock and surprise.” What followed was a two-stage transformation enacted over five years....
...You have moments of crisis, I guess, and I’m not sure I’ve ever really thought I’m good at it, just that I’ve got something different to offer. Some people like what you do and some don’t....
...“I’m often asked what they would have done once it got dark,” says Platman. “The answer is, go to bed....
...If you are looking for pointers on instant interiors updates, I direct you to Aimee Farrell’s design overview....
...“One thing I’m really good at is hiring amazing people,” she says. “She’s always had a very practical, intuitive side as well as a creative side....
...I said don’t bring anything, but he’s wielding a burrata and I’m thrilled. This one-on-one Tucci time isn’t purely me being selfish....
...“I’m still stuck on mimosa,” he says simply....
...“I’m like a squirrel. I have hundreds – they’re such a great medium for paint and great for stashing art supplies or Christmas decorations.”...
...“I tell myself, I’m just a lump of flesh. There are a lot of electrical impulses, and I can be very easily manipulated. These first 10 minutes of my walk are going to suck....
...“Michael Burke [the former CEO of LV] gave me some great advice when first I joined. He was like, ‘There is a force d’inertie.’”...
...He goes to Brighton and enjoys a drunken night out with Tom Burke’s bohemian stranger and, later, initiates a chaste friendship with a bubbly former colleague, Miss Harris (Aimee Lou Wood, luminous)....
...I’m Claer Barrett and today I’m joined in the FT’s London studio by three incredible campaigners....
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