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...Plus, they’re light enough for me to carry around from job to job. niwaki.com Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella Melograno in scented terracotta, £60I once managed to live in Florence...
...In Brussels, the art deco Villa Empain, designed by Swiss-Belgian architect Michel Polak for Baron Louis Empain in the 1930s, was purchased and restored by the foundation of Geneva-based jeweller Boghossian...
...In Italy, however, the hotter, southern part of the country recorded a drop in tourists, in contrast to cities such as Venice, Rome and Florence where there was an influx of international visitors....
...I speculate that Robinson is good at utopia-building in part because he is lucky enough to live in his own miniature idealised world, an ecological community on the outskirts of Davis, California....
...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...
...The video has since gone on show at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and this autumn the poem is being published as a book too....
...Born in Geneva to a British diplomat father and French mother, she moved with her family to England at the outbreak of the second world war and joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force....
...As her work attests, Sims-Hilditch, a descendant of Royal Academician HWB Davis (her mother is the well-known interior designer Emma Sims-Hilditch ), is a rising star....
...Staunch Brexiter and former cabinet secretary David Davis remains convinced of the comical notion that UK prime minister Boris Johnson doing a tour of the leaders of Europe rather than negotiating with the...
...He said the PDFs were abiding by international humanitarian law and human rights principles and “most importantly, the Geneva conventions”, which govern the conduct of war....
...Central to this anger is China’s accession to the Geneva-based World Trade Organization in 2001, which unleashed a flood of cheap imports on to the US....
...She was also the first woman to become a member of Florence’s august all-male academy of the arts, joining the likes of Michelangelo and Titian....
...Artist Fee Greening, who has decorated dinner plates for London label Kitri, illustrated a range of ceramic dressing table pots for department store Liberty and designed T-shirts for Florence and the Machine...
...says the 56-year-old, who departed England for the continent but today resides in Geneva, not Florence....
...In an indictment filed with Geneva’s criminal court, a prosecutor accused Mr Steinmetz of “bribing foreign officials and forgery” in Guinea between 2005-2010 while operating his business from Geneva....
...Embodied in Florence, with Spring comes a welcome current of hope....
...He wants fellow investors to help him replace Flybe chairman Simon Laffin with Geneva-based linguist and corporate financier Eric Kohn....
...The day ahead UN-led Syria talks Staffan de Mistura, the UN’s Syria envoy, will sponsor talks in Geneva today to discuss a new constitution in the war-torn country....
...Days after the December deal Mr Davis said it was not “a legally enforceable thing”....
...Florence may be the birthplace of the Renaissance but modern and contemporary art spaces are few and far between....
...His counterpart Michel Barnier also said there was a “new dynamic” in the talks, following last week’s speech in Florence by prime minister Theresa May, which he said injected much-needed clarity....
...Mr Davis also rejected suggestions that the foreign secretary forced the prime minister to alter her Brexit policy in the run-up to last Friday’s Florence speech....
...Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, had said there was a “new dynamic” to the talks, Mrs May said, before praising David Davis, Brexit secretary, for his work on the issue....
...It was her third major pronouncement on Brexit, following last year’s Lancaster House and Florence speeches, and will see her call for “an ambitious future economic partnership” with the EU....
...Mr Johnson’s hand appeared to be forced by the resignation of his cabinet colleague, the Brexit secretary David Davis, on Sunday evening and by outrage from Eurosceptic MPs at Mrs May’s plan....
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