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...The Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay is the Paris Society’s 79th venue, and its most ambitious hotel project to date....
...Now in their mid-fifties, the duo continue to project a je ne sais quoi quality. Dunckel played different sets of keyboards with eyes half-shut, as if in a reverie....
...His 2024 season combines old favourites — Nelken, Viktor, Café Müller — with works created for his own Terrain project....
...A recently inaugurated land-art project sees work by the likes of Arne Quinze adorning the grounds....
...My economics-reporting colleagues have joined forces to write a splendid account of where the inflation debate is right now inside big central banks....
...While most US opera companies struggle in a post-pandemic world, Santa Fe Opera, the country’s leading summertime opera destination, projects an enviable sense of normality with a well-balanced, five-opera...
...When the full-evening ballet had its premiere as The Dante Project at the Royal Opera House in 2021, the combination of Thomas Adès’s music, choreography by Wayne McGregor and designs by Tacita Dean must...
...They are simply splendid predators, as well-adapted to their hereditary niche as sparrows are. We should treasure our urban sparrows and sparrowhawks....
...The interiors were given to Martin Brudnizki – very much the man of the hotel design-world moment, with projects ranging from the Splendido in Portofino to the Vesper Bar at the Dorchester – to reimagine...
...It is also supporting arts education, publications and outreach projects to prisons and hospitals....
...An adjacent room with a splendid central bar is ideal for a pre-dinner sharpener on the terrace, with terrific views over the piazza....
...Without breaking new ground, the opening production of Tristan und Isolde looks handsome and projects a potent sense of atmosphere....
...The restaurant, which launched in February, is the passion project of restaurateur Tony Geary and chef Yahir Gonzalez, who hails from the Mexican city of Aguascalientes....
...Andra, a long-serving member of the Queens Museum’s facilities staff, could almost be a splendid monarch, enthroned in his office....
...Oliver Burkeman, in his splendid book Four Thousand Weeks, reflects on the distinction between “telic” and “atelic” projects. (The terms originate, of course, with a philosopher, Kieran Setiya.)...
...It is a passion project of American actress Jada Pinkett Smith. She’d had a conversation with her daughter Willow, who’d asked her who the queens of Africa were and why we don’t know about them....
...But now, after three years, the £41.3mn project to refurbish the Grade I-listed building from top to bottom, rethinking the public spaces and rehanging the collections, is complete....
...But they are splendid objects,” he laughs....
...planning Janu hotels for Montenegro (2024) and Saudi Arabia (2025), but the first will be Janu Tokyo, occupying floors one to 13 of the 240m-high, 53-storey B-2 District Tower, part of the Toranomon Azabudai project...
...In 2018, Shoplifters won the Palme d’Or at Cannes before achieving splendid box office results in China and the US....
...Mondrian Evolution, unveiling the full scope of the Dutch artist’s path from figuration to abstraction, is a twin project of Basel’s Fondation Beyeler and Düsseldorf’s Kunstsammlung (to February 12)....
...He has worked on many stately-home projects, creating watercolour sketches to illustrate the nuances of colour and texture....
...A Splendid Intelligence shows us, through quotes and the facts, the things she said and wrote and did....
...According to Grama, aside from church restorations, state funding for other projects is slim....
...The rescue operation on this splendid old building has been well judged and, I think, successful. It’s an amazing project and deserves a restaurant of this ambition....
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