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...They took in unmarried or orphaned girls and young women (of whom Dorotea was a patron saint), teaching them tailoring and other useful skills....
...Heydar Aliyev, the late Azerbaijani strongman, earned a dubious immortality in 1981 by praising his patron Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, 13 times in 15 minutes at a Communist party congress....
...There’s a members’ club component, which may well mean an interesting mix of local patrons setting a great tone. stradomhouse.com, from €170...
...His parents were prominent patrons of the communità di San Patrignano, the rehabilitation centre not far from Rimini where recovering addicts live on site for years, learning artisanal crafts and working...
...Giovanni de’ Vecchi’s elaborate sketch “Christ in Glory” with six saints, for a Roman church, is more precisely orchestrated and was probably a presentation piece to a patron....
...Guests will enjoy Sa Llagosta, a restaurant where I watch people go by as chef-patron David de Coca serves me a remarkable kimchi anchovy starter followed by lobster....
...May 2; further information here San Isidro DayThe Spanish capital honours its patron saint like only Madrileños could....
...Two metres of white and gold satin and an enormous millstone ruff encase the Marchesa Maria Serra Pallavicino like armour, and she is held tight within a stiff, velvet-lined chair....
...Then there is Maria, a 14-year-old devotee of Putin’s Youth Army, or Yunarmiya, whose members parade in khaki fatigues and learn how to strip Kalashnikovs and prepare for nuclear attack....
...Since he opened his original restaurant in Milan in 2007, Enrico Buonocore has been wowing patrons with exuberant but refined interpretations of the Italian seafood canon (the spaghetti with bottarga, raw...
...James was an English poet and patron of the surrealist movement – he was friends with Dalí, Picasso and Magritte....
...Williams, an arts patron and collector, says that “Nina Simone’s legacy is what has put people like me on the map today”....
...The nearest hotel is a Radisson Blu (radissonhotels.com), but the UK’s Tate and the Aspen Art Museum have booked groups of their patrons into Boen Gård, a historic farm-turned-hotel half an hour’s drive...
...I’ve written before about the ubiquity of the pearl in both men’s and women’s jewels, and in this issue Maria Fitzpatrick further unpicks its renaissance....
...Now going into its 28th edition, still manned by its founder, Neri Torrigiani, alongside Sabina Corsini (the daughter of its late, longtime patron, Princess Giorgiana Corsini), Artigianato e Palazzo is more...
..., and Kim Kardashian sank one on a recent visit to the capital, although with added Tia Maria and Baileys....
...Last month, a Tbilisi bar came under a Russian cyber attack after it denied entry to any Russian patrons who refused to sign a form denouncing the invasion of Ukraine....
...Then, the pre-Handover atmosphere: the beer in tankards, the regiments of crimson leather club chairs (regularly refurbished, but never changed), the evening appearance of polished patrons....
...New York’s already bumper season of sales in May has been boosted by a $250mn-plus collection that belonged to the Indianapolis-born, New York patron of the arts, Anne Hendricks Bass, who died in 2020....
...Details: Pico Iyer was a guest of Azumi Setoda (azumi.co), where doubles cost from about Y80,000 (£535) per night Procida, Italy Maria Shollenbarger It was, for me, that other island in the Gulf of Naples...
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...Meanwhile for the organisers of Ukraine’s pavilion, co-curators Borys Filonenko, Lisaveta German and Maria Lanko, life is dramatic....
...Fellows and patrons of the American Academy — which sits a few hundred metres up the Via Garibaldi, on Via Angelo Masina — like to stay here, conferring a bit of extra culture to the evening cocktail hour...
...Arpagaus went on to apprentice at the Hotel Waldhaus in Sils‑Maria, then started a culinary career in luxury hotels from Zurich and Bangkok to Lake Louise....
...To another type of aristocracy: we examine the power of artists such as Jay-Z, Tyler, The Creator and Drake as the new patrons of high jewellery....
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