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...“They have converted what used to be wooded areas into grassy meadow,” says María Medina Muro, a landscape architect who has worked on other historic parks in Spain....
...€14mn refurbishment and relaunch under new owners that has transformed a staid, increasingly fatigued landmark into a cultured and colourful five-star hotel, which — in the mould of dynamic general manager María...
...information here soon August Events La Madonna della Neve Every August 5, Rome celebrates La Madonna della Neve (Our Lady of the Snows) by recreating a miraculous summer snowfall outside the Basilica Santa Maria...
...It’s also kind of shaped like a board,” says Alex Israel of the cavernous oval volume that is Gagosian’s Rome outpost, a former bank just north of the Trevi Fountain....
...Here Portaluppi designed a major insurance building with (yet another) triumphal arch making a big urban statement and framing the view of the Chiesa Santa Maria presso San Satiro....
...In a city that’s about location and sights, the 96-room hotel will deliver in spades: in a grand palazzo between the Galleria Doria Pamphilj and the Trevi Fountain, with a near-500sq m rooftop bar and restaurant...
...over a door is an ornately carved 17th-century wooden frieze, restored to Mazzi’s specifications by a famous Arezzo bottega; in the ground-floor apartment’s private garden, there is a monumental marble fountain...
...Guests including actress and Valentino ambassador Florence Pugh arrived in full eveningwear to sip champagne before taking their seats by the fountains....
...“Yesterday my daughter said, ‘Last time I threw coins into the fountains, but I didn’t expect to come back this way.’”...
...and ice-cream bar in Cole Valley – a few blocks from Golden Gate Park – launched in 2012 with an old-school menu of floats, frappés, phosphates, malts, lactarts and boozy fountain drinks, including its...
...Inside them stand grand palazzos, loggias, a Venetian-style clock tower and a fountain guarded by snarling Venetian lions in the square....
...Artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri was inspired by Catherine de’ Medici, an Italian who, via marriage to Henry II in 1533, entered French royalty....
...Citrus trees heavy with fruit and blooming bougainvillea cascade along the walls, while a soundtrack of birdsong and water fountains plays in the background....
...You can sit by the fountain and sip champagne while you admire the edit of vintage and new art monographs (most of those are quietly for sale too)....
...Doomsday and disorder A flaming fountain of fire could be an apt summary for the mood of the past two years....
...Some models are dream homes: a Moroccan riad with working fountain, a lighthouse, an eco-cave furnished in sustainable woods, or a flat-pack Malibu beach house....
...Why The property is on more than six acres of grounds, featuring a guest house, pool, tennis court, terraces, fountains and a large pond....
...Lanko took art with her, including parts of “Fountain of Exhaustion”, Pavlo Makov’s work for show in Venice....
...Maria Fitzpatrick, meanwhile, takes us into the world of the dolls’ house, another fascination that has seen a recent boom....
...Meanwhile for the organisers of Ukraine’s pavilion, co-curators Borys Filonenko, Lisaveta German and Maria Lanko, life is dramatic....
...You’re not quite in the centro storico, but it’s only about a 10-minute stroll down to the Trevi Fountain....
...Her famous friends and guests – from Peter Sellers to Maria Callas, the Dalai Lama to Johnny Cash – were too....
...It was designed by Florida-based Ignacio Carrera-Justiz and the glass design was based on the work of German artist and one-time jazz pianist Johannes Maria Dietz....
...The only human figure in the exhibition is also by Claude: “Olympe”, a fountain installed near the Belvédère, is based on a moulding of one of her granddaughters....
...There is the loyal sister, Pauline; the mistress Maria Walewska bringing their small son, Alexandre, to play with exiled Papa on Elba, a moment which Scurr wonders might not have been the happiest day of...
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