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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....
...I’m living here while I’m renovating a farmhouse across the valley – the oldest parts of which date from the 1690s....
...“I’m obsessed with fully carpeted rooms,” says Billy Cotton, the American designer behind the creative, often flamboyant interiors of artists including Cindy Sherman and Lisa Yuskavage....
...“I’m a decorator by trade,” he says. “But I’m weirdly anti-decoration. I hate anything too done-up or perfect – and I always approach rooms furniture-first.”...
...Beyond the boundaries of his front door, however, when someone other than his little Havanese dog will see him, it’s a different story: “If I’m out in the world socialising then I’m wearing Rick Owens,”...
...I want to make sure because I don’t think I’m perfect.”) There have also been major gaffes....
...Annachiara Biondi LINDA RODINDesigner with a decades-long love of denim When Linda Rodin was 18 she moved from New York to Italy with a boyfriend....
How Caryn Hibbert turned a bucolic country retreat into a holistic – and lifestyle – destination
...Conceived as compact apartments rather than oversized suites (the largest of which is just over 74sq m), the pristinely formed pieds-à-terre are layered with Crawford’s sharp edit of old and new Scandinavian...
...“We had fun,” says Steven Meisel, who first shot Linda Evangelista in 1987. “Enjoy these photographs as much as we enjoyed creating them.”...
...“As long as I’m alive, I have to create,” says jeweller Maria da Conceição de Moura Borges (known simply as Kukas)....
...[FUNKY MUSIC] Hello, I'm Dan. Hi, Luke. Nice to meet you. LUKE FARRELL: Likewise. TIM HAYWARD: So what I quite like doing is [INAUDIBLE]....
...I’m possibly the only person who still buys CDs. I have this crazy notion that my kids might pull a CD off the shelf rather than searching online. So when I’m in town, I stock up at Fopp....
...I like to listen to it while I’m working. Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of the late British producer and DJ Andrew Weatherall....
...People always think I’m the wild one, but Hugo also loves to shock and surprise.” What followed was a two-stage transformation enacted over five years....
...If you are looking for pointers on instant interiors updates, I direct you to Aimee Farrell’s design overview....
...“I’m often asked what they would have done once it got dark,” says Platman. “The answer is, go to bed....
...It spotlights black country artists like Linda Martell, and it has made history maybe too little, too late....
...Dwayne Lysaght, JPMorgan Chase’s co-head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said: “It’s hard to see any one big driver for a slew of upcoming M&A....
...Barry Weir has been named head of UK, Middle East and Africa M&A, while Robin Rousseau will lead Europe M&A....
...I’m talking about colleagues who can be cruel, rude and small-minded, rather than those who might be annoying but try to do the right thing, such as know-it-alls on Zoom calls....
...“When I say more of the same, you know what I’m talking about? It’s both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. They have more in common than you think. Seventy per cent of Americans don’t want another rematch.”...
...“I’m still stuck on mimosa,” he says simply....
...I’m not saying that our private lives should be devoted to finding things to hate....
...His zones were Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Nicoya, Costa Rica, and Loma Linda, California, and he says a long life is more about environment than behaviour....
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