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...February 11 to April 13; further information and tickets here Chekhov’s familial tour de force is staged by Noé Besin, with Lily Moreau, Clothilde Raskin and Alicia Popov....
...After an attempt to take the group private had failed, he and his younger brother Andrea wanted to talk to their children at the villa in Italy’s hilly Marche region about their commitment to managing the...
...Hostis. lauragonzalez.fr Large oval platter by Villa Bologna Pottery, £76 This hand-painted pattern has been in production since the 1950s....
...This is another painted room, with trompe l’oeil decoration by Fernand Renard....
...Equally great is the frescoed breakfast room, its trompe l’oeil columns spot-lit, its retro dining chairs painted a cheering shade of red....
...A little too superb, on reflection — set on its own private sandy cove, with Art Deco contours and generous proportions mirroring those of the 19th-century villas threaded through the elegant harbour town...
...Lisetta Carmi Estorick Collection, London (to december 17); Villa Bardini, Florence And yet there remain magnificent women artists to seize from obscurity....
...March 28 to June 30; further information and tickets here ‘Impressionisti: l’alba della modernità’ (Impressionists: The Dawn of Modernity), Museo della Fanteria In honour of the 150th anniversary of the...
...Website; Directions L’Astrance 32 Rue de Longchamp, 75016 Paris After two years of closure due to works and lockdown, a new page in the history of L’Astrance began when it reopened at its new address...
...Villa Necchi Campidoglio Via Mozart 14, 20122 Milan Opening times/entry fee: Wednesday–Sunday, 10am–6pm....
...Shot at Villa Medici, Rome...
...Brightly painted imitation marble can be seen in the Villa of the Mysteries, just outside the walls of Pompeii....
...My wife and child had already arrived in Rome, and had let me know that they were settling into the nice apartment we’d booked near Villa Torlonia....
...Among six new villas that Simpson Travel is adding to its Corsica collection in 2024 is the four-bedroom Villa Occhinello, set among granite boulders and gnarled olive trees, and with a pool overlooking...
...Buy a case and save some for a while.£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....
...Marina Gio, a restaurant a short drive from the villa, fulfilled the brief perfectly....
...A late September sun is still rising above the bay of Villefranche on the French Riviera, bathing the palatial villas and surrounding pines in a golden light. The water itself barely ripples....
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...once lived in by Keith Richards. 19-69 Villa Nellcôte, £155 for 100ml; goodhoodstore.com....
...The last podcast I listened to was Picasso: Séparer l’homme de l’artiste, an episode from Julie Beauzac’s feminist podcast series. It really upset me. I had no idea the guy was such a monster....
...During the excavation of Pompeii, among the villas and streets that lay intact under the ash from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79CE, a small statue of a female figure was found....
...A couple of doors down from Schostal is L. G. R, where Luca Gnecchi Ruscone sells his select line of glasses and sunglasses....
...Plus, a classic Provençal mas in towns and villages like Ménerbes, St-Rémy, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Gordes (where Knight Frank is selling a seven-bedroom house for €2.35mn) and, of course, Cézanne’s native...
...Inspired by traditional Mediterranean architecture, the arches lead the eye towards a dining area with a stainless-steel kitchen at the centre and a Gio Ponti table covered by a trompe-l’oeil embroidered...
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
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