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...Italy will try to maintain its influence on European Central Bank affairs by proposing Piero Cipollone, a senior Bank of Italy official, as its candidate to join the eurozone’s top monetary decision-making...
...In striking distance from town are 3,000-year-old Etruscan sites, excellent wineries, unforgettable Piero frescoes (Sansepolcro is an hour’s drive), and Le Celle, a hermitage situated a couple of kilometres...
...Standouts include the reimagining of the 1972 Le Mura sofa by Mario Bellini for Tacchini, finished in a glossy leather (€20,400) and a ravishing re-edition of the Parola table lamp by Gae Aulenti and Piero...
...Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi sings the role of the titular princess, while Italian tenor Piero Pretti is her suitor, Prince Calaf....
...this season draw too from the slightly faded floors you’d find in old American motels....
...Architect and designer Gae Aulenti is now best known for her 1980s conversion of Paris’s Gare d’Orsay station into an art museum, the Musée d’Orsay, but in many ways her smaller-scale designs are more successful...
...Nearby, the modern and contemporary-art gallery Fondazione Carriero, with interiors by Gae Aulenti (architect of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris), is exquisite....
...Its oldest picture, Margarito d’Arezzo’s “The Virgin Enthroned” (1263-64), a fragile tempera panel rarely on show, includes a small Nativity in a cave where a reclining Mary, robed in blue (the most expensive...
...It reminded me of one or two Bulgarian wineries I’d visited in the 1980s before EU money was poured in to spruce them up....
...A gorgeous piece of modern American literature, and one of six or seven books I’d happily reread every couple of years for the rest of my life. £9.99, waterstones.com Scholl’s x Issimo linen Pescura heels...
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Piero Manzoni, a forerunner of the arte povera movement. He was very conceptual, a very intelligent artist....
...In its first year, Stroll Garden has won the Best Curio Presentation prize at Design Miami and launched Jane Yang-D’Haene and Lily Clark....
...I’d lived around the corner for five years; I’d cycled past the gate [at 11 Corso Venezia] dozens of times, and I had no idea of its magnitude.”...
...As she branched out to other dishes, it dawned on her how lucky she’d been to start with eggs. “Few other recipes are equally exhilarating,” she notes....
...“That was the first time I’d ever seen a fresco,” she says. “There’s just a lot of power and a lot of drama [in it]....
...During the pandemic, their landlords priced them out of their Poland Street home, but Vasco & Piero’s sprang straight back up, around the corner in D’Arblay Street, with so little fuss that it was, apparently...
...Rivalling the Côte d’Azur light for radiance, Gandur’s show should also magnetise crowds....
...“I felt like I’d found a secret place nobody else knew about.”...
...An 11 per cent holding was bought in 2016 by Piero Ferrari, the heir of the family that founded the eponymous sports car marque....
...Behind her hang major artworks — a fluffy Achrome by Piero Manzoni, and John Baldessari’s “Box (Blind Fate and Culture)” from 1987....
...Of course, his work rarely fitted neatly into boxes, and for much of his career he explored a love of decoration with the artist Piero Fornasetti....
...I’d be the last person to equate wine quality with price — I’ve always thought many wines are ridiculously overpriced and a few, fortunately, are underpriced....
...There was life where I’d expected only dust....
...Of the more outlandish offerings, the Italian Piero D’Angelo is working with a team of biochemists to create lichen-based textiles that help absorb emissions of CO2....
...If my funds were much less limited, I’d want to be one of them – from all angles, really....
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