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...While the mainstream market saw price falls of six per cent in 2023, Knight Frank figures show that prime properties over €4mn recorded increases of 2.5 per cent....
...He then moved to Paris to study fashion at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne....
...Lecavalier, punk ballerina with 1980s combo La La La Human Steps, co-starred in David Bowie’s Sound+Vision tour and performed a broken-doll duet in Frank Zappa’s Yellow Shark concert....
...Damien Hirst: The Light That Shines is at Château La Coste, 2750 Route de la Cride, 13610 Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France, from 2 March to 23 June, chateau-la-coste.com...
...The lower cost of buying and renting a property in Madrid compared with Miami is also persuading some Latin Americans to move cities, says de la Fuente....
...As Frank Wynne, a literary translator from French and Spanish, explained it to me, “languages age at different rates”....
...Cold-weather imbibing is better in the basement, at Hijos de Tomás, Thompson’s lively piano bar and speakeasy....
...My first port of call is África Fusión, a cosy Senegalese joint just a short dash through the driving rain from Lavapiés metro on fashionable Calle de Argumosa....
...Both Christie and I love the tartare de boeuf préparé à la minute, which is prepared tableside. I have a serious sweet tooth, so it’s always followed by the tarte aux pommes from the dessert trolley....
...I often pop into Galerie Vallois on Rue de Seine to see work by artists and designers I absolutely love such as Jean-Michel Frank....
...Philip IV commissioned the artist in 1636 to decorate the walls of his hunting lodge, the Torre de la Parada, and Rubens created oil sketches of about 60 scenes....
...Irene de la Torre Arenas Welcome to Datawatch — regular readers of the print edition of the Financial Times might recognise it from its weekday home on the front page....
...I opt for a 2019 Senda Garnacha from one of the most famous names in the Sierra de Gredos: Las Moradas de San Martín....
...Dates to be announced; further information here soon August Events La Madonna della Neve Every August 5, Rome celebrates La Madonna della Neve (Our Lady of the Snows) by recreating a miraculous summer...
...I’ve recently discovered the work of Swiss designer Beat Frank, who designed an incredible furniture collection for Le Corbusier’s Convent of La Tourette in 1994....
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...Mexican artist Mario García Torres also hacks his way back through time’s overgrown trails in his evocative 2009 photographic series called “Je ne sais si c’en est la cause” (“I don’t know if that’s the...
...Even if Sánchez cobbled together enough votes to become prime minister, de la Torre said there was no guarantee the same parties would support him in other parliamentary votes, especially ones involving...
...Milei only entered politics just over two years ago and his La Libertad Avanza party holds less than 15 per cent of seats in Argentina’s Congress....
...These are shown alongside paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Valentin de Boulogne and Bartolomeo Manfredi, among others....
...She cites the French model, designer and perfumer Inès de La Fressange as one of her early style inspirations....
...He also loves a morning dip in the nearby glacial Lac de Moiry....
...The luthier behind this revolutionary instrument, Antonio de Torres, called his creation La Leona (The Lioness), for the growl it made when strummed....
...facto locale for hosting visiting musicians, including the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Bing Crosby....
...In the 19th century, Honoré de Balzac initiated the trend for capacious interlinked novels depicting the peccadilloes of French bourgeois society with his multi-volume La Comedié humaine....
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