Word: fontana
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...clients that included the most glamorous jet setters in the world. Grace Kelly, Maria Callas and Gianni Agnelli toted the streamlined, masterfully designed luggage. It was the quality and inconspicuous style that set Valextra apart from its logo-ridden competitors of the day. Founded in 1937 by Giovanni Fontana, Valextra boasted handmade bags in evergreen, sleek shapes. Pergamena white became the brand's trademark color after its first set of luggage, made of untreated goat leather, got wet and altered shades. A bit impractical for the average traveler, white reinforced the air of luxury possessed by Valextra...
...Standing Woman is one of five works (the others are sculptural pieces by Heinz Mack and G?nther Uecker, and paintings by Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana) that have traveled all the way from Venice to Melbourne for the National Gallery of Victoria?s blockbuster show, "Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now," which opened June...
...Amanda Levete came on board as partner. Today the firm employs 30 people. In recent years it has produced new stores for Comme des Garçons in Paris, New York City and Tokyo, tableware and other design items for Alessi and Moser and a lamp for Fontana Arte. But it was that Selfridges department store, one of the most talked-about and widely published recent buildings in Britain, that put the firm seriously on the map, and even onto a British postage stamp, part of a series last year devoted to exceptional new buildings in Britain...
...Parents keen to equip their offspring with more extensive culinary skills might consider a sojourn in Italy. Since last summer, Fontana del Papa, tel: (39-0766) 93455; www.cookitaly.it, a family-run cooking school in Monti della Tolfa, an hour's drive north of Rome, has run courses for children. Husband-and-wife team Assuntina Antonacci and Claudio Pierotti teach bambini of all ages how to prepare traditional Italian fare, using the estate's organically grown herbs and vegetables. While parents relax in the 16th century country house, their sprogs concoct fresh pasta, tomato sauces and jams. Pierotti, a trained sommelier...
...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder well," says the school's founder Fiona Hamilton-Fairley. "Children deserve that information." Parents keen to equip their offspring with more extensive culinary skills might consider a sojourn in Italy. Since last summer, Fontana del Papa, tel: (39-0766) 93455; www.cookitaly.it, a family-run cooking school in Monti della Tolfa, an hour's drive north of Rome, has run courses for children. Husband-and-wife team Assuntina Antonacci and Claudio Pierotti teach bambini of all ages how to prepare traditional Italian fare, using the estate...