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...The food is farm-to-table perfection; the kitchen gardens here are huge, the quality of the cheeses and charcuterie from the surrounding towns famous....
...But it also means key assets are now priced for perfection — a benign world where central banks chop interest rates back down but without an economic recession forcing their hand....
...And the perfection that is Calamosche Beach is an easy 10-minute drive away....
...“The pyramid of strawberries is perfection. It’s a trophy picture.” And finally, the saga of the villa in Rome housing a Caravaggio ceiling rolls on....
...I advise going as big as you can because large pots are easier to maintain than a clutch of little ones. Small, table-centre pots are lovely, but high maintenance....
...And their current popularity is perhaps a reaction to mass manufacturing; perfection is a reflection of industrial processes and imperfection now a mark of luxury....
...Investors, perhaps in shock at seeing many of their most beloved companies collapse, have turned to a clutch of stay-at-home stocks (or, erm, SAHs), which should benefit from us humans being locked up like...
...Very close by, the 299 rooms and suites of the Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River rise up alongside a new-build, 300m-tall, unmissable tower that holds a clutch of residences....
...This collection opened with a clutch of daywear and suits, all fabricated in heritage fabrics sourced from northern British mills....
...In Dosso Dossi’s “St Jerome” the saint’s agitated fingers clutch a crucifix. Installed below, the nervy elongated hands of Giacometti’s “Standing Nude” are a visual echo....
...A huge tub of water boiled all day, cooking the supersweet corn to perfection. A smear of butter and a shower of salt and then came the taste of summer sun in one great glorious burst....
...A clutch of connoisseurs are familiar with Suzuki’s gifts....
...Obsessed with gemstones since childhood, she sources unusual, recherché stones, spinels and kunzites, and arranges them herself, pushing her artisans in Switzerland to perfection in craftsmanship....
...On a slightly more modest scale, Andrianna Shamaris is the furniture specialist who believes “perfection is imperfection”....
...He is in role-model mode, playing the part to perfection....
...Last year, he acquired a clutch of distinguished properties in Switzerland, among them the Victoria-Jungfrau in Interlaken, the Palace in Lucerne, the Eden au Lac in Zurich and the Bellevue Palace in Bern...
...I have never been as excited by the launch of a clutch of vintage ports. The quality of the best examples, of which there are many, is outstanding....
...Who else would look this good in nothing but lingerie and pointe shoes while singing each note with such crystalline perfection?...
...Claerwen has been talking about the Llanthony Show since 2009 – the monster vegetable competition, the mums’ two-legged sack race, the whole rom-com nature of the day’s perfection, the awe-inspiring hog....
...That neo-Platonic vision, grounded in the perfection of ideal forms rather than decorative fancy, is echoed in a clutch of other similar paintings here attributed to Luca Signorelli....
...A clutch of 16th-century drawings by the likes of Agostino and Annibale Carracci, Baccio Bandinelli and Tintoretto show male nudes summoned out of pencil, charcoal, ink and chalk with grace and charisma....
...souls whipped by purse-wielding devils that was inspired by Dante’s Inferno; a predella by Pesellino that includes an image of St Anthony discovering the heart of a money-lender in his strongbox; and a clutch...
...In the the show’s finale, a clutch of marvellous works by the Italian – “Madonna di Loreto” (1604-1605), “St Jerome” (1605-1606), “Madonna dei Palafrenieri” (1605-1606) – include his “David with the Head...
...“I love him very much, and wish him to reach good perfection,” wrote the woman whose face may serve as the model for the enigmatic portrait, “The Mute” (1505-07)....
...That was my way of looking at a new clutch of books brought out for the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth on February 12....
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