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...The pub’s neighbourhood sprung up to provide homes for local workers, many employed by car manufacturer Morris Motors, one of whose sites nearby now hosts the BMW plant, where the Mini is assembled....
...When Donal Mullane flew from London to Italy over the long August bank holiday weekend it was meant to be a short city break in Florence....
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...With headliners like Florence and The Machine and The Chemical Brothers, the city of lights shines brighter than usual across four days in August. August 23-27, rockenseine.com...
...Manhattan in the early 1960s was a sort of modern Medici Florence, producing more excellent art in a handful of years than we have been able to assimilate in the decades since....
...“I became friendly with Alex Florence, a longboard surfer and skateboarder who looks like a cross between Joni Mitchell and Brigitte Bardot....
...Last year, she painted a series of tarot-esque murals for the Gucci Garden headquarters in Florence, and can be seen on Instagram dancing up and down its corridors in full Morris garb....
...Pisa international airport is a 35-minute drive while Florence is an hour’s drive away....
...Some large-scale national museums, too, are joining the party: Vienna’s Albertina is open, the Uffizi in Florence, many of Rome’s great institutions too....
...London duo Tuppence Collective creates botanical designs inspired by William Morris and Wes Anderson; The Completist’s exuberant, abstract style has led to commissions for establishments such as The Hoxton...
...(This is one of the design’s original colourways and can be specially ordered from Morris & Co on request.) Another interesting option could be a design from Allyson McDermott’s range of wallpapers....
...That the phrase “Wardour Street English” was coined in the 1880s to denounce pseudo-historical prose by the likes of William Morris underscores its notoriety for selling goods of rather dubious provenance...
...Paul Surridge, the other British designer called Paul who looks after the creative direction of a Florence-based fashion brand, is a year into his efforts to steer Cavalli into modernity....
...Sir, The prime minister said in Florence last week that “the United Kingdom has never totally felt at home being in the European Union”....
...EU die-hards Two days after my visit to Bath I’m marvelling at the frescoes of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florence town hall, surrounded by diehard supporters of the EU....
...That devastation has been mapped with assured brilliance by Florence-born photographer Michele Borzoni....
...horror-movie aesthetic of Ivan Albright’s “Self-portrait” as a gnarled old man, putrid skin, saggy cheeks, sunken bleary eyes, feasting alone amid sinister reflections in wine glass and decanter, or of Morris...
...By then I was acclimatised to the Giulietta’s charms and foibles, drawing deep on memories of the first car I owned — an ex-Post Office 1967 Morris Minor van....
...One room given over to documentary pictures from the period, in which Dorothea Lange’s picture of Florence Owens Thompson, the “Migrant Mother” and her children, taken in California in1936, must be the most...
...The pose and composition inspired his sultry depiction of Jane Morris in “The Day Dream”, commissioned in 1879 for £735 by collector Constantine Ionides, who also acquired the Botticelli — for £315 — from...
...Returning overland from India in a failing Morris Marina. I got lost in a snowstorm near the Soviet border, where an Iranian sentry nearly shot me dead....
...Eisenman was commissioned by an academic couple, Florence and Richard Falk, who hired him to build them what critics described as a house inspired by the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky....
...In the museum’s permanent collection is the “AEO chair”, designed in 1973 by Paolo Deganello, co-founder of the Archizoom group in Florence....
...In a high-profile case, Philip Morris International has taken Australia to an arbitration panel over its introduction of plain-packaging laws for cigarettes....
...(William Morris had done something similar with Homer, converting The Odyssey into a weird ballad-speak.)...
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