Hints and tips:
...The original 80 rooms have been reduced to 50 to create more suites, including the 227 sq m La Palma suite, which Oetker says is the biggest on the island....
...I’m half-French and half-Italian, and while I’m not from Pantelleria, I can feel my roots there....
...I’m away next week and my colleague Emma Jacobs will be writing the newsletter....
...I’m drawn to churros because they feel integral to Madrid, as bagels are to New York and croissants to Paris....
...Among these are a ’70s wicker palm tree floor lamp by the Mexican artist Mario Lopez Torres; and a set of sculptural, modular 1977 table lamps produced by the Japanese manufacturers Yamagiwa....
...The Penthouse Suite, with its sleeping mezzanine and skylights, looks on to the tiny Piazza Pasquino; there are two 95 sq m two-bedroom apartment suites on the top floor as well....
...(I’m a fan too, so counted my own vote.)...
...I’m aware that mine is a one-dimensional perspective on what is, despite Italy now being effectively open for business to mainland Europe and the UK, still a troublesome moment here....
...Jessica Higuera Torres speaks of her son Jesús Javier López Higuera, who disappeared in 2018, in the present tense....
...Trattoria Torre di Pisa, trattoriatorredipisa.it....
...In terms of clothing, I like modest, classic silhouettes but with a bit of bite, so my go-to designers are Rachel Comey, Maria Cornejo and Rick Owens....
...My personal style signifier is a beaded coral fortunello charm that I wear for luck and was given to me by the Liverino family – an important coral supplier based in Naples’ Torre del Greco district....
...On the back it had the text “Nobody Owns Me” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Felix was a close friend of mine and the T-shirt designer Agnès B is also a friend....
...“I’m sceptical. A lot of people think that it will serve as a military base.”...
...When I come out of a class with Esther I’m so stretched out and refreshed I feel amazing. Although she pushes me, she makes it such fun that the class goes in a flash....
...Tintoretto’s exotic crimson-blue “Esther before Ahasuerus” made £120, Bronzino’s precise, graceful “Portrait of a Lady in Green” £100, Veronese’s fleshy comedy “Mars, Venus and Cupid” £11....
...I’m really excited by science, so I did the science ones first,” he explains. Next week he’ll spend every morning working on a video-games project....
...By 2010, the club owed €452m, calculated José María Gay de Liébana, economist at the University of Barcelona. Nearly half of that was unpaid taxes....
...“Some people are sceptical of the involvement of the private sector but it’s wrong to suggest I’m too good to work with the private sector....
...Esther Duflo, Professor of economics, MIT Aman Sethi’s A Free Man (Random House India) is a beautiful work of journalism, sympathetic and graceful....
...I’m unwilling to make idiotic predictions about what’s going to be in print and what’s not going to be in print, I just don’t know. But I’m damned if I’m not going to be there.”...
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