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...I have a big comfortable sofa, but also a Paulistano chair – designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha in 1957. It’s a little bit bouncy, so you feel like you’re in a hammock....
...“As long as I’m alive, I have to create,” says jeweller Maria da Conceição de Moura Borges (known simply as Kukas)....
...Artists Matthew Niederhauser and Marc Da Costa describe the piece as an “interrogation” of the visual languages of today’s machine-learning tools. It seems a long way from Cavafy’s Alexandria....
...The authors, Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, had drawn inspiration from a book published in 1669, Letters of a Portuguese Nun, to produce a collage of letters, sketches...
...It is magnificent to see 100 Nautor’s Swan sailboats all in one place, racing around the Costa Smeralda....
...It owes its popularity in no small measure to Uxua, the all-cottage beach hotel created by Wilbert Das that has attracted, among others, Beyoncé and Anderson Cooper (who liked it so much he enlisted Das...
...Villa, Malveira da Serra, Cascais, €3.98mn Where In the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, between the Serra da Sintra and the ocean, half an hour’s drive from Lisbon and its airport....
...“If you walk through downtown São Paulo or other cities, you will see there are a lot of people going hungry,” says Maria Isabel da Costa, who runs a restaurant in the city....
...Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa (Hamish Hamilton/Knopf) Marías’s final novel, posthumously published in September, sees a retired British SIS member return for one last...
...On the outskirts of Luanda, Angola’s capital, where modernity and poverty jostle side by side, Maria da Encarnação Pimenta laments what has happened to her country....
...Today, Avenida da Liberdade is referred to by some as the Champs-Elysées of Lisbon....
...He was particularly close to Mr Lula da Silva....
...I never tire of looking at da Vinci and Michelangelo. Both were born near Florence, my home town, and the city was a big part of their lives and work....
...Ms Rousseff wins re-election as president November 2014 Police in six states raid Petrobras offices and those of some contractors December 2014 Petrobras chief executive Maria das Graças Foster says she...
...Maria das Graças Foster, the embattled head of Petrobras, and five other executives have resigned over the corruption scandal enveloping the Brazilian state-owned oil group....
...February 2015: Petrobras chief executive Maria das Graças Silva Foster and five other executives resign....
...She has also installed career Petrobras engineer, Maria das Graças Foster, as CEO, who has “cleaned out” most of the political appointees, former Petrobras executives say....
...Maria Crawford Crime Tell No Tales, by Eva Dolan, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99 Dolan’s Long Way Home (2014) focused on immigrant workers menaced by ruthless gangmasters....
...Among those who have benefited are Pedro Ferraz da Costa and his employees. Mr Ferraz da Costa owns and runs a family pharmaceuticals business in Portugal, employing 230 people....
...India Grows At Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong State, by Gurcharan Das, Allen Lane, RRP£19.99/Penguin Global, RRP$25 Das, a former businessman, was one of the first public intellectuals to analyse the...
...We just don’t want to be paid less,” explains Henrique Costa, a young union director....
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