Hints and tips:
...Osteria San Michele, the restaurant, is open to the public, and draws them from far and wide (Villa Lena has done sustainable agriculture from the beginning, and the meals are beautifully plated as well...
...There’s a long, underlit pool flanked by loungers, behind which tall candles flicker; the treatment rooms are all lined in glowing polished wood....
...Closets are clad in felt, leather and studded wood, evoking old-world portable wardrobes....
...Other stars including football’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, tennis’s Roger Federer and golf’s Tiger Woods have amassed fortunes away from their sports through endorsements and investments....
...In Hackney, Fred Rigby approaches wood in another way....
...With Alessandro Michele acting as “mythographer”, necklaces, rings and cuffs incorporate antique micro-mosaic cameos of Roman ruins and landscapes....
...All is sand or pearl, caramel or bone: the warm tones of the earth, stone and wood that were the only materials deployed in Pa.te.os’ creation....
...In his studio there’s a circular-shaped First chair by Memphis designer Michele De Lucchi, while on the wall there’s a Warhol silkscreen of Joseph Beuys....
...Port Tanger acetate Yamina sunglasses, €275 George J Sowden lacquered wood Palace chair, 1983, €1,390. Michele De Lucchi metal and wood First chair, €1,580 Mauvais Garçons vintage cotton shirt, POA....
...Fiesole’s finest reborn Villa San Michele has been the stalwart on the Fiesole hill above Florence since it first opened in 1982, with painterly views, patrician gardens, and a rich historical heritage...
...It’s going to be tougher to make money for traditional investors,” said Michele Gesualdi, founder of London-based Infinity Investment Partners. Hedge funds are adjusting to the tougher outlook....
...Not to forget fragrant polishes for wood, more for stainless steel and pretty microfibre cloths for glass. These are my people....
...When the FT visited the development works under the hotel in April, the wood-lined spa areas were finished although the swimming pool was a shell and some levels were still walled in concrete....
...Gone are the dark wood and chrome of the existing stores, replaced by a softer, warmer palette of cream and pale wood overhung with gold stars....
...Stay: Hotel Lungarno, Leonardo Ferragamo’s classic on the river, a Michele Bonan-designed looker with a perfect bar that’s an easy walk from all five Saville venues....
...“Someone could touch a piece of wood and tell me its precise moisture content, and they are experts at carving,” says Hori. “I asked one guy to make me a chair....
...is so large that it takes me 26 seconds to walk from one end to the other — past adjoining sitting rooms with a built-in bar, a six-person dining room and kitchen, a bathroom suite of green marble and a wood-panelled...
...Through non-destructive means, including X-rays, ultrasound and radar, BAM’s engineers have a wide range of technical options at their disposal to peer into objects made of concrete, but also steel, wood...
...“They want to use their homes themselves as a multigenerational seasonal escape,” says Michele Penner, managing broker at Peabody & Smith estate agency....
...“While we are not out of the woods, we are confident in our houses’ ability to succeed in 2021 and beyond.”...
...The same year she released another zine, We Are One Of The Same, a study in identity combining photography by Joshua Woods and poetry by Jess Cole....
...While the taste level is deeply sophisticated – the building is Beaux-Arts but the Michele Bonan-signed decor veers from midcentury to maximalist – the welcome is informal....
...I often find what I need lying in the streets or the woods.”...
...I fell in love with her sculptures in wood. One that I particularly like is called Bumped Body....
...“A lot of people have been running like rabbits in headlights, and can’t see the wood for the trees. I’m interested in sitting back, seeing what’s happening,” Jones says....
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