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...Paolo Carzana showed off his ability to twist and fold fabrics in what was his second show, where he incorporated a wider range of natural dyes....
...There is a magic to making such rich, decadent dough rise to a feather-light, elastic and long-lived confection....
...Now known as Galataport, the area is defined by its 1,200m-long esplanade, lined with shops, restaurants and cafés, and busy with promenaders and cats....
...“There’s something cold about a tube of oil paint bought from an art shop, but when you work with something someone has used, you feel you’re connecting with people,” he says....
...Chilean Cecilia Vicuña won the Golden Lion, the biennale’s top prize; her “Bendígame Mamita” (1977), a Surrealist portrait of her mother dreaming, half occluded by an enormous guitar, was the biennale’s...
...Through a shroud of smoke, I could see men, whooping and chanting, their faces painted white, so that they looked like apparitions. The drumming became more febrile....
...I mean, it’s sort of lit with a golden light....
...LA Almazara by Starck will stand as a grand salute to Spain with a splendid gift shop attached....
...Rosanne Wong should be enjoying a year of recovery at her four cigar shops in Hong Kong, after three years of Covid restrictions were finally lifted at the start of the year and traditionally high spending...
...Feather and Bone 22 Mosque Street, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Good for: Cheap, post-work drinks Not so good for: Restraint....
...Step aboard and the sheen of the hand-finished mahogany details on the deck draws you back to a golden age of transport when style and substance took priority over speed and efficiency....
...He’s been repaired with Japanese Kintsugi [golden joinery]. My grandfather had a small, ceramic tiger in his flat and every time we went in I’d stroke it....
...I was always the person writing notes about what was good and where the shops were. I was always the person that my friends would call.”...
...The shops were shut and the piazza had emptied out so that the great snooze could ensue....
...From what feels almost like touching distance, golden uplighting throws into glorious relief chimneys that were conceived as fluted Doric columns....
...Wok Chinese takeaway, an upholstery shop and the local dentist....
...Dressed in sequins and feathers for Mardi Gras, they brim with post-pandemic cheer. The club feels like it has been here for years....
...“Long lines for bread, empty shops, no electricity, robbery, crime and civil war, wars in Abkhazia and Samachablo – this was the everyday life of our childhood.”...
...A golden plover challenged me as I crossed its territory. Later, a snipe soared and dipped in its display flight, tail feathers thrumming, above a tumbledown cottage over which roses scrambled....
...The decor is simple and bohemian: whitewashed walls, hammocks, an antique carved four-poster daybed, and bowls of shells, feathers and African amulets....
...In that space, we’re imagining going to the burger shop, we’re going to the movies.”...
...It’s like when you see the same exact shops in every fucking mall in the world.”...
...In fact, we love them so much that we opened our own grill house, Honey & Smoke, and secretly call it “the kebab shop”....
...I found it in Radicondoli, 50 minutes west of Siena in the Val di Merse, where the golden woods were broken up by green fields and silvery olive groves....
...He would nap, smoke endless cigarettes and, occasionally, sell something....
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