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...Kunstsilo has been transformed by the Spanish-Norwegian practice Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, with BAX and Mendoza Partida. Its Norwegian-functionalist façade has been softened with cream shades....
...says the owner of Scène Ouverte, whose Design Miami Paris presentation will focus on young designers: Abel Cárcamo, whose sinuous, animalesque forms are wrought in marble, bronze and patinated wood; Léa Mestres...
...So disenfranchised do today’s Venetians feel that in 2019 a referendum was held which called for the historic centre of Venice to split from its mainland borough of Mestre....
...Alex Mestre, deputy chief executive at Cellnex, cited a hard-fought deal with Italian operator Wind to buy its 7,000 masts in 2015 as emblematic of its strategy....
...Miles Johnson writes (FT Weekend, May 23) that Venice has a population of 300,000 but that is together with Mestre, the mainland city belonging to Venice municipality....
...In Mestre, many see advantages in being separated from their better-known neighbour, with its very different concerns....
...The disadvantage is that, economically, Venice and Mestre are codependent. It’s unlikely that the separatists will prevail, and the referendum is in any case only consultative....
...Venice is part of a wider council area that includes its mainland neighbours, the industrial town of Mestre and port hub of Marghera....
...The report highlighted the Passante di Mestre highway bypass and the Mose scheme from 2003 — both projects where local politicians and public officials were found guilty of corruption as part of wider “Veneto...
...Principal Global Investors has also named Helen de Mestre as head of Australia....
...With more than 180 events across Venice, Mestre and Murano, Venice Glass Week, now in its third edition, is an extravaganza that goes beyond vessels and objects to encompass films, demonstrations and workshops...
...At its 2,000-hectare sugarcane plantation and distillery in Paraipaba, Diageo’s mestre-cachaceiro, or master blender, Nelson Duarte, shows off one of the highlights of Ypióca — the distiller’s vast cellar...
...In 2002, the 28-year-old French diver Audrey Mestre died while diving to 171m when her lift balloon failed to bring her back to the surface before she ran out of air....
...Mestre Irineu, or Master Irineu, as he is known, built a church based on this revelation that combined indigenous mythologies, Kardecist spiritism and folk Catholicism, all within a recognisably Christian...
...Ignacio Mestre, chief executive, says Dogi was eventually compensated with Rmb105m ($16.9m)....
...while Chester Barrie, whose presence on Savile Row dates from 1937 and whose clients have included Winston Churchill, is opening concessions in the upmarket department store Coin in Verona, Milan, and Mestre...
...“The depressive effects are evident,” says Giuseppe Bortolussi, head of CGIA Mestre, a business association. “Although the objective should be to make the economy grow, the opposite is happening.”...
...Recaredo, Torelló, Mestres and Gramona carry out all or much of their secondary fermentation under cork rather than metal beer-bottle caps, and are “disgorged” (having the lees removed) by hand, bottle by...
...Richard Tompkins, a 39-year-old payroll manager, and his girlfriend Jessica Mestre, 30, put down a 10 per cent deposit on a one-bedroom flat in the Strata before taking themselves off to Australia for two...
...And the capoeira, with the cast of eight under the direction of Mestre Carlo Alexandre Teixeira da Silva (who also appears), is a language in itself: one can discern conversations in the bodies sliding past...
...“It’s all about using cork in a more commercial and competitive way, to give it an added value,” Mestre says....
...The architect, my obliging cicerone, a lean, fit 40-year old who runs the 9km back and forth across the causeway from Venice to Mestre three times a week, had made himself a campaign of fuelling my interests...
...“You can buy a place in Mestre that is three times as large and drive a car to your front door.”...
...The vanguard wing leads the way, followed by the female flag-bearer and the mestre sala, or master of ceremonies. Then come swirling women in traditional Bahian outfits....
...At Evercore, where he is a vice-chairman and head of the advisory business, Mr Mestre can offer the “purest form of advice”, he claims....
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