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...New rooms with a view in Florence Betty Soldi and Matteo Perduca are local heroes in their hometown....
...Betty Wood has discovered closer ties to her Northumberland heritage through a recent turn to weaving – a prompt for her father to share stories of his own grandmother’s rug-making....
...once lived in by Keith Richards. 19-69 Villa Nellcôte, £155 for 100ml; goodhoodstore.com....
...Winehouse’s old home, which she purchased in 2010, the year before her death, is at the grand end of the scale, a semi-detached 19th-century villa....
...Van der Wee’s recent projects include a restoration of the facade of Hôtel Solvay: Horta’s grand town house on the stately Avenue Louise for Armand Solvay — son of the chemist, industrialist and founder...
...Among the most sought-after streets are Avenue Louise, near Ixelles, home to high-end boutiques and embassies....
...There are also accomplished performances from Sarah Morris as his long-suffering English wife Betty and Ruairí Heading as smarmy hanger-on Mush....
...must-see exhibitions (Edward Hopper in 2020 and Goya in 2021 were beacons during the pandemic) are housed in Renzo Piano’s long, luminous glass and stone building set in the exquisite park of the baroque Villa...
...Within its elegant shells of timber, polished concrete and glass, The House showcases contemporary Australian talent; works in resin from Louise Olsen and Steve Ormandy’s brilliant Dinosaur Designs sit alongside...
...Whitney Morrison shines in “When a Man Is Lost”, an aria sung by Malcolm’s wife Betty in which she urges a pilgrimage to Mecca, and doubles as his mother, Louise....
...The dialogue sticks closely to the Betty Comden and Adolph Green movie script, and Faye Tozer nails every laugh as the squeaky-voiced silent siren Lina Lamont — her off-key “What’s Wrong With Me?”...
...The 600-acre grounds are dotted with bold sculptures by leading artists such as Richard Serra, Sean Scully, Louise Bourgeois and Jenny Holzer, as well as pavilions by world-class architects including Frank...
...At the entrance stands Louise Bourgeois’s steel and wire mesh “Cell IX”, its dangling mirrors suggesting the studio’s infinite possibilities as an enclosed yet open, reflective, experimental space — and...
...From €550, lungarnocollection.com; or AdAstra, Betty Soldi and Matteo Perduca’s jewelbox B&B, overlooking the city’s largest private garden....
...Criminals from Britain and the Italian mafia loved their new gated villas so much they earned the coast the nickname “Costa del Crime”. Timeshare apartments proliferated....
...Le Corbusier became unsettlingly obsessed with the villa, building his own austere little wooden cabin right next door and later daubing murals on the villa walls (against Gray’s wishes)....
...An exception came up this week, when a villa in Rome that was expected to become “the most expensive house in the world” failed to sell at auction....
...Louise (Simona Brown) has a nice flat in what looks like a former council block, while David and Adele live in a palatial Islington villa....
...Perched towards the highest part of the area, with astonishing views across a panoramic landscape, is the super-luxe Villa La Coste, a stunning hotel....
...Marina Lambton Villa Cetinale, Tuscany, Italy It was at the age of 10 that Marina Lambton first visited Villa Cetinale....
...“There was this real idea of connection to the past and bringing it into the present,” says Dr Louise Stewart, curator of exhibitions at the museum....
...The five-star Villa La Vedetta in Florence, for example, has permanently closed while many others, including Rome’s Hotel Raphaël, have not reopened since the first lockdown....
...For almost three years he never left his studio in Cimiez, southern France; when he did, it was only to relocate to Vence’s palm-fringed Villa Le Reve, where he had neither telephone nor car....
...In April he returns to Rio, to choreograph Heitor Villa-Lobos’s opera Yerma for the Teatro Municipal. Then back to London to teach the Royal Ballet summer school. And after that?...
...Tanning, for example, with Louise Bourgeois, Sarah Lucas and Jenny Saville. Jacques’s aim was to reposition Tanning as something far more than Max Ernst’s wife....
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