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...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...Adam Thomson proudmarycoffee.com.au ‘Feine, Pennsylvania A small coffee shop in Conshohocken serving espresso, filter coffee, tea and snacks....
...On Monday, the African Union voted to suspend Burkina Faso’s involvement in “all AU activities until the effective restoration of constitutional order in the country”....
...The banana bread is also worth a visit. parispartisancafe.com GK Ditta Artigianale (Via dei Neri), FlorenceYou wouldn’t have ever said you couldn’t get a good coffee in Florence (heaven forbid; it’s Italy...
...Do you think that’s wise sir avoca.com Baroni Alimentari, FlorenceOlive oils, vinegars, cheeses, meats and wines in Florence’s Central Market....
...Spot them: By their au courant understatement. On trend (but not too), particularly for the PRs: Saint Laurent suits, Loewe statement coats, sneakers (most likely by Balenciaga)....
...Ecowas has imposed sanctions, cut off financial flows and, like the AU, suspended Mali’s membership, while sending a delegation led by former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan....
...The chef will be Alexis Soyer, the Reform’s first chef and friend of Florence Nightingale, who revolutionised cooking in the British army during the Crimean war....
...VW australianantiques.com.au Midcentury masters Jacksons, Stockholm Fashion designer Sophie Hulme is one of many midcentury fans who source furniture from Paul and Carina Jackson....
...The common link is air, the focus of Saraceno’s passionate environmentalism and the title of his exhibition, Aria, currently housed in the Strozzi Palace in Florence....
...Florence’s chicest hotel just got chicerThirty years ago, the chicest of the grand hotels in Florence was the Helvetia & Bristol....
...Fendi’s perfumed cow was a watering-can, bound in leather, toted by a model in a silk-organza sun-hat (the fabrics were au natural: silk, cotton, wool, cashmere)....
...September 14-January 14, marmottan.fr Photographs: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence; National Gallery of Art, Washington...
...Calonne is holding a paper inscribed “Au Roi”, signifying his devotion to crown and country....
...Standing at a bar in Milan and ordering a ristretto on my first paid “foreign” assignment, an illicit meeting with an old flame in Paris during Fashion Week, the UHT milk sweetening the café au lait in a...
...But the prize for the oldest gems goes to the 15th-18th-century devotional pieces at Monte Carlo-based Dario Ghio, who also exhibits at Brafa, and the Rome and Florence Biennales....
...“I’m a jeweller who stays on top of fashion trends around the world,” says Mr Tateossian, who is as much au fait with Pitti Uomo, the fashion fair in Florence, as he is with more jewellery-focused gatherings...
...Garden open schemes In 1987 a scheme began in Victoria, Australia, which today opens up 700 gardens across the nation: (www.opengarden.org.au)....
...Until May 3. www.artsinthevalley.net.au New YorkTrisha Brown Dance Company The Trisha Brown Dance Company begins a four-night stint at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 29, with a mini-retrospective...
...The exhibitions run until June 28. www.qag.qld.gov.au ParisGiorgio de Chirico: La Fabrique des Rêves The Musée d’Art Moderne is hosting Paris’s first exhibition of de Chirico’s work for more than 25 years...
...Although there is a wide geographical spread, paintings from Florence and Siena somewhat inevitably dominate....
...I remember a hot car journey out of Florence. Late spring, the trees waxy with blossom....
...www.adelaidefringe.com.au New York Jasper Johns It is 50 years since Jasper Johns produced his first collage-painting “Flag” of the stars and stripes....
...Marcello Buiatti from the University of Florence explained: “The human genome has approximately 30,000 so called “coding genes” and these can code for more than 500,000 different proteins....
...Silvia, a 20-year-old from Barcelona working as an au pair in Gloucester, is the first person I see actually use a phone. She arrives at 10.30am to call her twin sister in Spain....
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