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..., the interiors: JK Place hotels’ Florentine house designer, Michele Bönan, scoured Les Puces and mixed all the gorgeous things he found with pieces of his own design throughout the 19th-century maison d’...
...Tell me about an animal you have loved.I had a parrot called Rocco who escaped and died. I have another parrot now called Toukie. I teach him (or her?)...
...I’d lived around the corner for five years; I’d cycled past the gate [at 11 Corso Venezia] dozens of times, and I had no idea of its magnitude.”...
...Those in the stands below applaud and shout, “Rocco! Rocco!” He waves, accepts selfie requests and pinches the cheeks of kids sitting nearby....
...Every building in Rome’s old centre tells a story – and chances are it’s a longer and more interesting one than you’d guess. The six-storey building at Via delle Coppelle 23 is no different....
...Following rebirth in fourth-tier Serie D, Parma won three consecutive promotions and returned to Serie A two years ago....
...“I don’t know that they can keep opening 1,000 stores a year but people said years ago they’d run out of headroom and it hasn’t happened.”...
...“We wish we’d bought even more aggressively.”...
...Jeremy KingCo-Founder and Chief Executive, Corbin & King Nick JonesSoho House UK; Babington House Arjun WaneyRestaurateur Yotam OttolenghiChef and Restaurateur Sir Rocco ForteChairman, Rocco Forte Hotels...
...Adorno was first approached by Rocco Forte, who owns Brown’s, four years ago. “I wasn’t ready to move,” he says. “I had this pea-brain idea of doing 40 years at Le Caprice.”...
...“I currently have three increases in for this year, and I’d be very open to starting in March,” Harker said in an interview with the Financial Times. “I’d be open to more if that’s required.”...
...But it does have what I’d argue is, from a quality-for-money standpoint, the city’s best hammam, hands-down....
...“We’d been a bit slow with that trend over the last 20 years. We’d become a bit lazy.”...
...Forte Hotels for 25 years – the group set up with her brother, Sir Rocco, which includes Brown’s Hotel in London....
...“It also doesn’t seem to be the case that just vaccinating the vulnerable will be enough to lift most restrictions as I’d expected,” he added....
...She’d be talking to me and very often she’d have a telephone call as well.” He recalls attending a party that Peter was throwing for employees in Mumbai, while Urrshila stayed at the office....
...Enter Rocco Forte, chairman of the eponymous hospitality group whose properties are some of Europe’s sleekest....
...“We’d normally have friends and family come around,” Rocco says. “But doesn’t this year suck?” Instead, Rocco has been carrying out virtual tours of their village....
...He added: “I knew that it would test the patience of our stakeholders, and I was OK with this, because I’d done this once before, and I saw how the narrative plays out.”...
...Rooms and suites boast bold texture and colour hits against neutral backdrops, all by in-house design director (and sister of Sir Rocco) Olga Polizzi....
...“We’d look at what parts of the store we’d run and which we’d close if we had a lot of people off sick, or caring for people who are sick,” a spokesperson said....
...That side of the business has been strong,” says Rocco Forte....
...We are doing all we can to restore our full services as soon as possible,” said Tony D’Souza, chief executive of Travelex....
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