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...This has long been the ritual at the 100,000sq m site that lies 6km north of Florence. It takes 10 years to be considered a master in a single art of porcelain production....
...I’m living here while I’m renovating a farmhouse across the valley – the oldest parts of which date from the 1690s....
...“I’m obsessed with fully carpeted rooms,” says Billy Cotton, the American designer behind the creative, often flamboyant interiors of artists including Cindy Sherman and Lisa Yuskavage....
...“I’m a decorator by trade,” he says. “But I’m weirdly anti-decoration. I hate anything too done-up or perfect – and I always approach rooms furniture-first.”...
...Beyond the boundaries of his front door, however, when someone other than his little Havanese dog will see him, it’s a different story: “If I’m out in the world socialising then I’m wearing Rick Owens,”...
...Now I’m 82, I don’t give a flying fuck. If I want to say something, I’m going to say it.” When asked if she would have given one in the past, she replied: “I’ve always been like this.”...
How Caryn Hibbert turned a bucolic country retreat into a holistic – and lifestyle – destination
...Conceived as compact apartments rather than oversized suites (the largest of which is just over 74sq m), the pristinely formed pieds-à-terre are layered with Crawford’s sharp edit of old and new Scandinavian...
...“As long as I’m alive, I have to create,” says jeweller Maria da Conceição de Moura Borges (known simply as Kukas)....
...[FUNKY MUSIC] Hello, I'm Dan. Hi, Luke. Nice to meet you. LUKE FARRELL: Likewise. TIM HAYWARD: So what I quite like doing is [INAUDIBLE]....
...I’m possibly the only person who still buys CDs. I have this crazy notion that my kids might pull a CD off the shelf rather than searching online. So when I’m in town, I stock up at Fopp....
...I like to listen to it while I’m working. Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of the late British producer and DJ Andrew Weatherall....
...If you are looking for pointers on instant interiors updates, I direct you to Aimee Farrell’s design overview....
...People always think I’m the wild one, but Hugo also loves to shock and surprise.” What followed was a two-stage transformation enacted over five years....
...I was there with friends on the promise of transgressive S&M....
...“I’m often asked what they would have done once it got dark,” says Platman. “The answer is, go to bed....
...“I’m looking at humanity and where we got things wrong.”...
...(A film adaptation of Eileen, written by Moshfegh and her husband, Luke Goebel, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.)...
...“I’m still stuck on mimosa,” he says simply....
...“I’m like a squirrel. I have hundreds – they’re such a great medium for paint and great for stashing art supplies or Christmas decorations.”...
...The M&A melodrama was a year in the making and involved multiple bidders, lawsuits and financial engineering feats....
...Rounding the corner to Holy Trinity church down by the river, I’m struck by the distance from Henley Street — the route taken by the funeral procession in Hamnet — and just how far it would feel if you were...
...“I’m wasted on projects where things are overly planned. For the townhouse, we’ve been able to playfully put this interior together as we go.”...
...It’s a process also observed by her friend, the actress Eileen Atkins, who has known Redgrave since they were both 19....
...My indoor highlight was talking on the literary stage with Marchelle Farrell, author of Uprooting, a memoir about the notion of what “home” means....
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