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...Fendi Casa Collections Fendi Casa’s immaculate detailing and craftsmanship is on show at its airy flagship in Piazza della Scala, which is exemplified by its new Fendi F-Affair, a modular sofa by Controvento...
...It follows a period in which the firm built up a significant business auditing Chinese real estate groups: PwC has also acted for others that have struggled, such as Country Garden, Sunac, R&F Properties...
...It usually sets off from Central Station at 4pm, winding its way to the Arco della Pace. The after-parties are legendary....
...The initiative also helps to save lions and rhinos and, most recently, koalas in Australia through the Wildlife Conservation Network. tiffany.com F is for Fashion ExpressionsPrada Group has partnered with...
...What is immediately striking about the new collection – in contrast to the fashion world’s obsession with in-your-face logos (and, to note, the “double F” emblazoned across the new Skims capsule) – is a...
...“Right now, Della Robbia Pottery – founded in 1894 in Birkenhead, near Liverpool – is high on collectors’ minds.”...
...Ferragamo’s business is shoes, and the standouts here were a reinterpretation of Salvatore’s 1947 F-wedge, which was moulded into a stiletto heel, and a new Gancini driving shoe for men....
...She snapped the future senator and president John F Kennedy with Elizabeth Arden, empress of the cosmetics industry, at a party she had gatecrashed. Then came Cuba in 1953....
...“It is a constant war machine,” he says, sitting in his office, where a vast painting of John F Kennedy by the Italian artist Sergio Lombardo hangs over his desk....
...She sighs, half laughing: “The absurdity of the world and the absurdity of politics at the minute, where it’s just like, ‘f**king hell, what next?’”...
...Founded in 1873 in the lakeside Alpine city of Lugano as Banca della Svizzera Italiana, BSI ranks among the top 10 Swiss banks. It manages $80bn for some 125,000 clients....
...That is, excepting one small corner of musical history: Vivaldi’s work during the early 18th century for the all-female choir at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, one of four charitable institutions that...
...Diego Della Valle, the chairman of Tod’s, has been making a big ruckus lately about the need for Italian brands to protect Italian heritage – their own (ie their artisans and their skills) and their countries...
...Two days before the opening, he is feeling confident about the show, he says, although he is distracted with plans for the opening party, which will take place on the Isola della Vignole and which will feature...
...Given that Thunderbird used to be a US aircraft base, it is perhaps fitting that she was the first civilian woman to land in an F/A-18 Hornet on an aircraft carrier and has trained as an astronaut - she...
University of Wales decision to halt validation of independent degrees will leave MBA suppliers in the lurch
...Another boat that used to belong to John F Kennedy, moored in Capri. He recounts the list unostentatiously, professes his love of the simple life, and manages not to sound disingenuous....
...When I described the book later, to my friend F, with whom we were staying, I said that it was mainly of interest for the fact that a former controller of BBC1 had a yen for the vitello tonnato della casa...
...Read it in full via the Corriere della Sera and Google Translate. Here’s the summary of its initial policy decisions — but a “full action plan” won’t arrive until November 15: B....
...This volume spans 1958 to 1964, giving an unmatched psychological portrait of Johnson as John F Kennedy’s assassination catapults him into the presidency....
...Via F. Corridoni, 60 San Cesareo, www.osteriadisancesario.it For cakes … my favourite is Mondi....
...For 20 years he ran the Stein Group of Hotels and Resorts, among other business ventures, and he is also a past president of the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Foundation and co-founder of the Robert F Kennedy...
...The Oxford Companion to the Book Edited by Michael F Suarez SJ and Henry Woudhuysen Oxford £195, 2 vols, 1,408 pages FT Bookshop price: £175 The Case for Books: Past, Present and Future By Robert Darnton...
...● The 2008 election has inevitably been compared to that of 1960: a candidate from a minority – the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy – offers a message of hope and change....
...The willowy figures were inspired by Botticelli, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, the architectural setting by the grand Renaissance manner....
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