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...Troia might be the most perfect small town in Puglia, the ideal place to sit with a glass of Puglian white wine as the sun goes down, to contemplate the incredibly rich and almost forgotten legacy of this...
...In 1898, Wright used money earned designing glass tiles for Luxfer Prism Company to build a new studio connected to the house....
...Structures vary from stained-glass cathedrals or the UN building in New York to humble bamboo shelters harbouring Rohingyas in Bangladesh....
...Tom Pye’s opening scenes are a study in shabby gentility, with a dilapidated drawing room giving on to the cracked glass wall of a fly-blown conservatory....
...For the restoration project, Atlanta-based architect Sheila Lee Davies created modern additions including a distinctive glass and zinc pavilion, demonstrating how the city’s traditional housing stock can...
...It was acquired in 1903 by Dr Charles Frederick Newcombe — we know his name — a Newcastle-born physician, botanist and ethnographic collector....
...It is also now home to the glass-and-steel facades of the district’s modest boom in high-end rental and condominium development....
...Frederick Studemann FT literary editor The friend who alerted me to Trust did so with the recommendation that Hernan Diaz’s exploration of money, power and reputation management would be “perfect” for...
...But at Grapetree Bay, Buren created a set of glorious murals in an exuberant neo-Mexican amalgam of pebbles, glass and ceramics....
...Why The 2.5-acre garden was landscaped by the Olmsted brothers, sons of Frederick Law Olmsted who co-designed New York’s Central Park....
...Frederick Ballentine is only half-audible there, which is a shame, as his portrayal of George is eminently bright, clear and personable everywhere else....
...To get there was to pass through the proverbial looking glass into a different world. The most notable difference to life in the west was the consumer experience....
...“Well sure,” he says, citing works by Frederick Douglass and Richard Wright. “These are essential to understanding the great mistakes that we have made in the United States....
...“You go to many museums and they are in semi-darkness, and the art is protected by glass. What we wanted was to create a more intimate and direct experience.”...
...Sectors like metals, glass, ceramics, paper and textiles have taken the biggest hit....
...The photographic safari became a book project when Roberts encountered the Frederick II Foundation, a Sicilian cultural heritage foundation established in 1997 in Palermo, and named for Frederick II – one-time...
...Some made cars, one made fertiliser, others produced steel or glass or perfume....
...My other design must-see is Philip Johnson’s Glass House, which was the architect’s home and playground for experimentation....
...Frederick traces the history of the movement for socially responsible businesses back more than 50 years....
...Linklaters braces for a historic victory Breaking through the glass ceiling takes time. At the “magic circle” UK law firm Linklaters, it will have taken about 183 years....
...Central Park and Prospect Park — Frederick Law Olmsted’s Manhattan and Brooklyn responses to Paxton’s pleasure garden experiments in England — overcame late 20th-century decline when non-profit groups took...
...The original Stadtschloss, begun in the 15th century and hugely expanded by Frederick III (later King Frederick I of Prussia) and architect and sculptor Andreas Schlüter from 1699, was left in ruins after...
...Staff there only keep about 25 cases in a modest room off the kitchen, says Frederick J Ryan, author of Wine and the White House....
...Frederick Barbarossa, the 12th century Holy Roman Emperor, also turns up in the records, bequeathing ownership to a Perugian connection....
...This is where he produces his extraordinary work, unique both in its beauty and the labour-intensiveness of its production: delicate sculptures of porcelain, glass and bronze that reproduce floral forms....
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