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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....
...The inspiration was Luca della Robbia’s glazed terracotta Madonnas, while the jewelled surfaces suggest influences from goldsmith-sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti....
...This dense concoction fails and I give up halfway through, Florence’s enervating climate having destroyed my appetite....
...According to Rota and cellarmaster Luca Mazzoleni, the whites have aged better than the reds, but the wines tend to taste 10 years younger than expected....
...its friary were established in 1221, and the friars soon began “experimenting with herbs and flowers grown in the monastic garden, creating soothing balms, elixirs, and other medicines”, says CEO Gian Luca...
...“It’s going to be interesting to see how that does,” says Olivia Thornton, head of 20th-century and contemporary art, Europe, for whom another lot to watch is the Sarah Lucas sculpture “Someone Dropped a...
...Venturini Fendi says it was the film director Luca Guadagnino, a friend and collaborator, who made her realise that Fendi had to offer the Baguette for men, in 2019....
...In the 1480s, when Leonardo da Vinci fell out of favour in Medici-governed Florence, he sought the patronage of Milan’s ruler, Ludovico Sforza....
...Luca Robotti, who has managed the Pavé shops since 2013, says they’d rather welcome “one more person than a laptop”....
...Bönan leaned into Milan’s 20th century design heritage, with specific nods to Portaluppi’s Villa Necchi Campiglio, the 1935 Milanese mansion that had a star turn in Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love and is one...
...When I go truffle hunting with tartufaio Luca Campinotti, who is part of the inimitable Savini Tartufi team, and his faithful furry friend Fiuto, it is clear that without Fiuto, Luca is just “taking a nice...
...The response on social media was “mixed”, according to Bernstein analyst Luca Solca. Department-store buyers were more upbeat, speaking warmly of the bags, outerwear and menswear....
...Both Luca and Brutto take such huge inspiration from Italy, but Norman, the front of house pro, takes the imagined soul of the culture and repackages it....
...Data visualisation by Liz Faunce Letter in response to this editorial: Digital currency plans only add to confusion / From Charles Lucas, London W6, UK...
...The stakes are higher for the parliament, says Simon Hix of the European University Institute in Florence....
...These include artists who came to fame when Glimcher started out in the 1960s — Paul Thek, Lucas Samaras and Lee Bontecou — and stretch to contemporary works by the likes of Julie Curtiss, Kathleen Ryan...
..., the brand is discreet, and the entrance on the unprepossessing Via della Scala does not proclaim itself: on his own first pilgrimage (“long before the iPhone and Google Maps”), the company’s CEO Gian Luca...
...It catapults Saville’s art into direct encounters with that of Michelangelo, Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Luca and Andrea della Robbia....
...It spread in part through the publication in 1494 of Summa de Arithmetica, a text by Luca Pacioli, a Venetian. The city-states of Italy didn’t invent credit money....
...Luca Solca, analyst at Bernstein, said Burberry was “in a far better position” today than when Gobbetti took over the group known for its signature tartan check and trenchcoat....
...This view was echoed by former Green leader Caroline Lucas, Labour’s Clive Lewis and the Lib Dems’ Layla Moran as they backed a three-party non-compete pact to end the “self-defeating tribalism” splitting...
...Described by Michele as a “hymn to life”, it was also a celebration of the 100th year since the brand’s birth as a leather goods shop in Florence....
...In the last quarter of 2020, more guests stayed in Sicily than in Florence and Venice combined, according to Airbnb; and more stayed in Devon than in Oxford and Cambridge combined....
...Coyne stresses that Clark’s archives have never been catalogued: “Florence had the idea we had a library of stuff to look through alphabetically, but it’s nothing like that....
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