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.... £16 Berry Bros & Rudd Ch Lafon 2018 Listrac (14%)Nicely balanced Cru Bourgeois. A good buy for lovers of classic claret....
...The floors are larch planks — a hallmark of 18th-century Lombardian bourgeois homes, and an unexpected moment of rustic Gemütlichkeit in an otherwise conspicuously polished whole....
...Located in the bohemian-bourgeois Chamberí neighbourhood, this local vermutería is as authentic as it can get, buzzing with good music and serving vermouth to its relatively young clientele....
...Katz met Ada Del Moro of the Bronx in 1957, and that’s when his art snapped into focus....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is a biography of Leonardo Del Vecchio, founder and former chairman of Luxottica, the great Italian eyewear brand....
...Just a short boat ride from Mahón port, the island’s trail of six sculptures includes creations by Spanish masters Joan Miró and Eduardo Chillida, and one of Louise Bourgeois’ eerie arachnids, all integrated...
...Then, as she leads me into the courtyard entrance, there is the sculptural pièce de résistance, a 3m Spider (1994) by Louise Bourgeois....
...With more than a dozen commercial spaces spread around the world, Hauser & Wirth will this month make a new claim on an unlikely cultural hot spot with the unveiling of a gallery on the tiny Isla del Rey...
...Starchy governess Doña Antonia de Ipenarrieta y Galdos and judge Don Diego del Corra y Arellano are busy positioning themselves at Madrid’s court in 1634; meanwhile, bourgeois newlyweds Marten Soolmans and...
...Dances on the palate. 14% Ch Les Moines 2009 Médoc, Bordeaux £17.95 Tanners Cabernet-dominated Cru Bourgeois is now fully mature....
...Bourgeois Madrileños snap up apartments around the leafy Retiro Park....
...Larraín took the boy and went first to Zapallar, a resort on the coast where his family had holidayed for decades, then to Viña del Mar....
...And Spain can field a host of underpriced wines, if you avoid the most famous names of Priorat, Ribera del Duero and Rioja. It may be easier than you think to find bargain bottles....
...That same year, a Danish actress, Asta Nielsen, became an international sensation in The Abyss, about a woman who forsakes bourgeois marriage for a gaucho dancer and, while the story’s not going to end in...
...The most important idea of all, she argues, is that of “bourgeois equality”, the belief that everybody is entitled to better himself or herself....
...It is a voyeur’s paradise — buoyant, celebratory, but touched with moral seriousness: an allegory of joys — bourgeois order, affluent display — that seem alien today....
...days was full of good spots for compulsive amateur bar pianists, not because of the quality of the pianos but rather because of the tolerant attitude of their owners – special mention should go to the Bar del...
...‘Everybody is Nobody for Somebody’, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, to June 15 artstationsfoundation5050.com starybrowar5050.com/en...
...Barcelona is currently installing its huge (and rather ugly) Museu del Disseny in the emerging and incoherent Poblenou district....
...Some have compared the Faustino Group’s Bodegas Portia in Ribera del Duero, the work of Foster + Partners, to a spaceship....
...Which would seem unremarkable were it not for the fact that distrust of this formerly banned “bourgeois” sport remains high and, a decade ago, central government banned the construction of new courses in...
...“We’ve done a lot but there’s a lot more to be done, to turn this bourgeois state into a truly popular state that would serve everyone, especially the poor,” Correa (pictured) said at a gathering of the...
...There were the bourgeois families, and there were people like us.” The experience, he says, made him keenly aware of injustice....
...One and possibly two more are to be developed by Spanish hotel groups in Pinar del Río, where what is rated as the world’s finest tobacco is grown....
...This week the Puerta del Sol, lined with tents and makeshift stalls offering petitions and political manifestos, resembled London’s bourgeois-bohemian Camden Market more than Cairo’s Tahrir Square....
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