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...The objects I would never part with are the three Compasso d’Oro (Golden Compass) awards left to me by my father. It’s the most important prize in the design world in Italy....
...When you compare that to millions [for a company like Ikea], you’re not amortising the R&D, the tooling costs, over nearly as many chairs,” he says....
...If prices go down, D’Acunto adds, “that would have very bad implications for [consumers] in many respects....
...But it’s one you pass through rather than a destination; you’d miss it entirely if you didn’t make the excellent decision to take the winding, two-lane Corso Italia out of Genoa in lieu of the faster, easier...
...The ship first set sail in August and is the first of six due to be launched over the next five years by Explora Journeys, a new high-end subsidiary of MSC, the Geneva-based shipping conglomerate owned by...
...the company’s merger with Deutsche Telekom, it was acquired for €50bn in a debt-financed hostile takeover by a group of investors, led by the chief of Olivetti, dubbed “courageous captains” by Massimo D’...
...The German carrier confirmed the partnership with the shipping group without offering further details....
...“After having children, I kind of felt I’d lost myself and my zest for life, I guess,” she says....
...“There’s no chance I’d take a client down there. Zero. Never again.”...
...“The glory never lasts,” she says as we watch Merckx put on his woollen Molteni team jersey for the start of the 1973 tour of Italy, the Giro d’Italia....
...The Giro d’Italia is a regular visitor, and the Maratona dles Dolomites starts and finishes a stone’s throw from Rosa Alpina....
...twigs to a tranquil Scottish farmhouse on the Isle of Bute and the forensically crafted Cadogan Place store of heritage leather goods brand Tanner Krolle, Bowden’s eye for offsetting theatrical objets d’...
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...My signature “spa ritual” began with a sauna — of course. A heart-pumping, nostril-singeing 20 minutes at a mighty 90 degrees Celsius with a bit of yoga thrown in for good measure....
...“I am extremely worried about the safety of our crews going through the Strait of Hormuz,” said Paolo d’Amico, chairman of Intertanko, a tanker trade association....
...“We’d just been out for lunch on a Sunday afternoon,” recalls Valeria Sykes, a coal miner’s daughter from Barnsley with an undimmed accent....
...Chianti’s small mountain range is ideal training terrain and forms a gruelling stage in the Giro d’Italia race, and there are plenty of bike repair shops and enoteca....
...When my wife and I spent a few days there this summer, we found its handsome promenades — the yawning Piazza Unità d’Italia, the flanks of its bijou Grand Canal, the seafront beneath our balcony — populated...
...“I didn’t think we’d have enough time. Especially when you consider that most furniture has a 10- to12-week delivery time.”...
Populist Rome government’s anti-austerity budget resurrects ‘doom loop’ fears
...be a grand coalition, or national unity government, of centrist political forces including both the Democratic party and Silvio Berlusconi, the 81-year-old former prime minister and leader of the Forza Italia...
...The Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia regularly pass near the town, and Piedmont, just over the border in northern Italy, is home to some of Europe’s most celebrated cycle manufacturers....
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