Hints and tips:
...Discovering bargello embroidery, a form of vertical stitching dating back to Renaissance Florence, broke through the creative brick wall that London-based American artist Cecilia Charlton found herself facing...
...His family were nobles in the court of Charlemagne and owned so much land between Siena and Florence that at one time they were barred from public office because they were deemed insufficiently impartial...
...Starbucks was “flourishing” in Italy, Schultz said, where it planned to expand from Milan to Rome and Florence....
...FY Friday China, Q4 current account balance ECB president Christine Lagarde speaks at “Nuovi incontri per il Futuro — Future-oriented meetings” organised by Osservatorio Permanente Giovani-Editori in Florence...
...That is unfortunate, as beneath all Michael Gove’s historical talk of what a “Medici model” did for Florence, there are some significant policy initiatives....
...But Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz said last week the coffee chain, which operates a single coffee bar in Milan, was “flourishing” and would add two more branches in Rome and Florence....
...This (English) catalogue of the once-in-a-lifetime show now at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi is both a record of and — if you can’t get there — a substitute for, its beauty and erudition....
...(I’m currently lusting after one of their wonderful Howard Hodgkin hand-pulled silkscreen prints.)...
...But before going, you spoke to EM Forster, who was an ageing writer, the author, of course, of Passage to India, Howards End, et cetera....
...The Howard De Walden Estate, which owns its shop in Marylebone, offered to take monthly, rather than quarterly, payments....
...Job moves Billionaire Alan Howard is to step down as chief executive of Brevan Howard, handing day to day leadership of the hedge fund firm to a lieutenant as he concentrates on investing and overseeing...
...It weaves fact and fiction, as Howard Hughes, J Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys mix with fictional gangsters and FBI agents in the run-up to the Kennedy assassination....
...One of the most striking works on the list is a naturalistically painted terracotta foot from 1560-70, modelled on a Michelangelo sculpture at the tomb of Giuliano de Medici in Florence....
...That’s a timely comment as Hurricane Florence bears down on the US east coast. Who will get the fees? Goldman Sachs, Debevoise & Plimpton, Aon Securities and Sidley Austin....
...Florence Nightingale, arguably history’s most famous nurse, cut her teeth on Harley Street....
...This is what happened to the collection of 89 Roman busts at Castle Howard in Yorkshire, now owned by National Museums Liverpool....
...Howard Davies, chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland, warned that the government had only six months to secure a transition deal....
...Downing Street said that Florence was chosen because of its “historical links” with the UK and its position as a “historical trading power”....
...Scores of companies are thought to have signed an open letter urging Mrs May to use a speech in Florence next week to accelerate stalled Brexit talks and to give business a window of certainty of up to three...
...Today Sir Howard Davies, chairman of RBS, issued the same message....
...It has been designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon, whose previous work includes the George V in Paris, The Savoy in London and the Four Seasons in Florence....
...This time it’s Florence, followed by Istanbul, and the McGuffin is a consignment of plague virus placed at the service of a doomsday conspiracy plot....
...Main photograph: Howard Kingsnorth/Getty Images...
...Lombard has obtained a draft of the next Management Today column of Airports Commissioner Sir Howard Davies*. “No rest for the wicked....
...As for the vedute, or view paintings, London is unusually awash with fine watery views of Venice, Naples and Florence....
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