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...There’s no shortage of famous faces: Sophia Loren on set of the 1955 film The Miller’s Beautiful Wife; Brigitte Bardot at the San Michele hotel in Fiesole in 1962; Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor during...
...There is something ironic in presenting an exhibition of Richard Rogers’s drawings at the Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery at Château La Coste — because drawing was not Rogers’s strong suit....
...Date to be announced; further information and tickets here soon Events Piazza Navona Christmas Market The historic Christmas market in Piazza Navona sits amid the architectural beauty of Bernini’s Quattro...
...With all eyes on the window, you may not initially notice the long, open kitchen behind you or the solid and reassuring presence of Richard Corrigan, the chef who has just taken the place over....
...cod” in fish tacos) FYI: Mila is owned by the company behind Virtuous Pie, a vegan pizza chain What to drink: Mila has short but well-curated lists of wines and Vancouver-area craft beers (a crisp La Piazza...
...Artists and writers flocked to the area around Piazza del Popolo and the art galleries La Tartaruga and La Salita, which exhibited seminal American artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Serra, as...
...Gundari opens in May, doubles from €600, gundari.com Rome Just south of the Piazza del Popolo at 246 Via di Ripetta, the austere facade of the 16th-century Palazzo Capponi Campanari belies the futuristic...
...But there’s a big piazza in front of it and it bulges in the middle with this white egg – inside the egg is where the committee would meet....
...The biggest change has been to flip the building around so that its entrance is now where it always should have been, looking towards the little piazza and up Charing Cross Road, rather than the rather eccentric...
...There are the fish floor mosaics of Gigiotti Zanini’s Palazzo Civita (Piazza Eleanora Duse 2, 1927-33) and the very mid-century cocktail of colours and quality materials at Via Giovanni Pascoli 21 (architect...
...Too-young models paraded bizarre resort fashions across the Piazza Martiri; too-old, too-rich men of indeterminate provenance and portfolio puffed away on cigars, watching them....
...Amsterdam by private boat (or taxi), the newly restored 17th-century timber-frame building will have 14 rooms designed by the modish Dutch design agency buro Belén and a restaurant, De Mark, helmed by chefs Richard...
...A century later, Richard Rogers designed the nearby Lloyd’s Building with all its innards (vents, cables, ducts) on the outside to leave more space inside for employees....
...I’d heard of a house where Speke, Stanley, Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton all stayed; I’d been transfixed by tales of latticed balconies and Ali Baba jars in the African heart of the Omani Empire....
...The books are complemented by a splendid collection of curios and artefacts, among them an Egyptian mummy with most of its teeth, racy volumes of Oriental eroticism by Sir Richard Burton, a machine for making...
...In recent years, Guettel has become best known as the composer of The Light in the Piazza, the musical with a starring role for soprano Renée Fleming, but he has more to his name, including a commission...
...The piazza was a wide balcony overlooking the surrounding countryside. A chorus of birdsong rose from the landscape....
...The list of current and former board members of this not-for-profit includes some of the most important American artists and art dealers of recent years, including Kiki Smith, Richard Prince, Barbara Gladstone...
...Richard Sennett, an urbanist, academic and author, also points to the need to adapt spaces so they are more flexible....
...Eventually you emerge on the river, in front of a striking steel-and-glass museum designed by Richard Meier to house the most famous of Augustan monuments — the Ara Pacis, the Altar of Peace....
...A chance meeting with the owners of the Richard Ginori ceramic factory landed him the role of creative director – and solidified what became a lifelong love of ceramics....
...Baptised “ApeWine” and painted in the traditional “milk-and-mint” colours of the original 1950s Vespa, it drives through Tuscany’s historical squares and landmarks – by way of Lucca’s Piazza Anfiteatro and...
...At its Broadway premiere in 2005, The Light in the Piazza (book by Craig Lucas, lyrics and music by Adam Guettel, grandson of Richard Rodgers) garnered six Tony awards....
...We might bemoan that the most beautiful places, the small piazzas or little old cafés, the museums and landmarks we were once so moved by are impossible to appreciate as they are so crowded....
...piece called Norma Jeane Baker of Troy , one of the opening shows at New York’s new cutting-edge arts centre, The Shed, and she is currently making her London musical theatre debut in The Light in the Piazza...
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