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...But it’s architect Gabriel Guevrekian’s garden at Villa Noailles that Viard drew most directly from....
...“I chose to advance, to fight,” he explains in the upstairs bedroom of a Parisian villa where he and his company, La Marche Bleue, have just completed a shoot for HTSI....
...The Roman College is a sprawling complex of villas. Cypress and pine trees rise above tiled terracotta roofs....
...There were branded hotel bathrobes and fluffy slippers at Balenciaga too, while Belgian newcomer (and Balenciaga alum) Marie Adam-Leenaerdt proposed a black maxi terry robe with a bright pink towel for a...
...Nicknamed la nouvelle Athènes (New Athens) in reference to its neoclassical architecture, it included grand family homes, Italian-style villas and artists’ studios....
...One day in late May, Fiorucci sent a boat to Sorrento to pick up the Liberian-British artist Lina Iris Viktor, who had recently moved to the coast, along with the London-based artist and scientist Alexandra...
...“It has been growing in popularity among those from Paris for about a decade but since the start of the pandemic it has really accelerated,” says Marie-Christine Steffanetti of local agent Barnes Marseille...
...Casa Mediterraneo is a sister property to Kastellorizo’s Mediterraneo Hotel; its owners, Marie Rivalant-Lazarakis, Grégoire du Pasquier and Luc LeJeune – managing director at design-architecture firm Studio...
...Until March 3; further information and tickets here ‘Picasso in Fontainebleau’, MoMA In the summer of 1921, Picasso rented a villa in Fontainebleau, France, where the garage became a haphazard studio in...
...In the mixed-owner portion, 10 works went unsold, including a 1938 Picasso painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter against a pink background, estimated $20mn-$30mn....
...Two Parisians, Marie and Anaïs, ask me to take a photo of them next to the monument. Neither is a fan, although Marie’s absent son is....
...“We are currently showing the house as we found it,” says Maniera co-founder Amaryllis Jacobs of the villa originally built for industrial engineer Jean Danckaert in the Brussels neighbourhood of Forest....
...When I made a show garden with Ann-Marie Powell back in 2010 we had two people on leaf-polishing duty who would have passed out if they’d seen the state of some of Massey’s leaves....
...Seventy-five lots on offer, spanning French furniture, porcelain and art, are accompanied by impressive provenances with links to Marie Antoinette, Napoleon and the Duke of Orléans....
...From $495, salthotels.com High-design home in coastal Tuscany Tuscany’s Monte Argentario peninsula is perennially in demand (thanks in great part to the chef-of-magic talents of Marie-Louise Sciò, she...
...In 1891, Rodin modelled “Iris, Messenger of the Gods” — a headless woman with splayed legs, genitalia exposed, portrayed as if leaping or flying — on a cancan dancer....
...It’s a subject close to the heart of French jeweller Chaumet, which helped to realise the show and whose identity is deeply rooted in the botanical world; Marie-Étienne Nitot, the founder of the maison,...
...“You can look at something like Hadrian’s Villa [in Tivoli], which I think of as the site of the first garden sculpture, and it’s clearly a private space,” says Worthington....
...And finally, the saga of the villa in Rome housing a Caravaggio ceiling rolls on....
...This autumn, a panel of judges, including centenarian interior designer Iris Apfel, will award each winner $100,000, doled out in three instalments....
...It was held in New York at the newly opened Villa Albertine, an institution that plays ambassador for French culture in the US....
...The attics stuffed with draped furniture, the dusty chandeliers and dark corridors have given way to Modernist villas and glass houses....
...But in the end, the scents of Santa Maria Novella belong to Florence, in all its subtle, complex, lovely austerity, from the thyme, bay and iris of the Florentine hills to the cool shadowy recesses of an...
...An English-born American heiress newly married to a marquis, Iris set about restoring the property’s late-15th-century villa, commissioning Cecil Pinsent to design its garden – today, one of the most popular...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Villa Kérylos by Adrien Goetz. It’s set in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, near where I grew up in the south of France....
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