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...The former clutter of shop, sandwich bar and ramps has been stripped out to create a generous and elegant internal piazza....
...Chef Marco Ciccotelli — who also oversees the menu for Piazza Ripetta, the all-day courtyard dining venue — deftly balances refined presentation and soothing comfort-food standards....
...It ended up instead on Piazza della Signoria, a symbol of civic freedom. The shift from sacred to secular location was emblematic....
...Jonathan Anderson chopped out V-shaped peepholes on fleshy chests and based many of his clothes on “the mundane object” — weird moulded shoes designed to recall the claw feet of Georgian furniture, wide...
...“It will have performance spaces and rehearsal rooms; it’s next to Westfield Stratford and the V&A East – it’s going to be a cultural quarter almost,” says Bargh....
...of Indonesia-inspired cocktails are available if you fancy upping the ante. potatohead.co RD Joia, Milan The oldest Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant in Europe, this elegant institution near the Piazza...
...socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to be sentenced after being found guilty in a sex abuse trial Wednesday Belgium, the Ommegang festival, including a pageant re-enacting the historical entry of Charles V,...
...The second you enter the Paris hotel, you step on a marble and granite eight-pointed star design — inspired, I learnt, by the one in Rome’s Piazza del Campidoglio. Bulgari takes heritage seriously....
...A star trio of women’s voices — Julia Bullock, Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara — tug at the heartstrings with “Migratory V”. Part two, Work, follows on February 24; Love in April; Faith in May....
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...E&V is selling a three-bedroom villa with pool near Anacapri for €2.15m....
...The “V” variously stood for victory, vendetta and vaffanculo — polite translation: “Get lost!” From a piazza in Bologna, he excoriated the Italian political circus with sword-swallowing satire....
...At the V&A, Amanda Levete folded her courtyard into an origami landscape; JKMM have draped theirs like a series of tents....
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...Levete’s design for the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter is a courtyard, a space rather than an object....
...With its porcelain tiles and striking mix of modernity and historicism, the V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter promises to be the most exciting piazza since St John Wilson’s British Library....
...He was withdrawn from the Tour de Romandie in 2010 for flicking a V-sign, and has a habit of verbally butchering journalists....
...Like our own museums, the Rijksmuseum came late to photography (the V&A set up its photography department in 1977; the Tate appointed its first photography curator in 2009)....
...government will be now left to work its way to bring the country out of the current uncertain economic scenario or it will only last until the Stability Law and new electoral law are defined,” said Annalisa Piazza...
...In one, thick, black, lightless oblongs of ink float like steps leading to nowhere in a hopscotch of finer lines to summon the skeleton of an ideal piazza....
...“Different methodologies, different cultural ideas, and a horizontal approach,” she says, leaving the high v low and east v west orthodoxy trailing in her wake....
...Two months earlier Mr Grillo had become Italy’s leading protest politician when he held a rally in Bologna known as V-day, where the V stood for vaffanculo – an Italian obscenity....
...Peter Ortiz is a reporter on Ignites, a Financial Times publication...
...Lecce’s architectural history can be surveyed in one sweep across the main piazza, Saint Oronzo....
...There are lots of restaurants and cafés here and every evening we walk down the Avenue Georges V to the cinemas in the Champs Elysées. We see all kinds of films, new releases and older ones....
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