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...designer Karl Lagerfeld in the fold and also massage a better relationship between the designer and Silvia Venturini Fendi, the talent behind Fendi's handbag business. That required yet another kind of nuclear power plant, one that Burke promptly set about creating in the form of Fendi's historic palazzo in the center of Rome, which he renovated in order to relocate scattered design studios and management offices under one roof. The idea was to centralize the talent and boost productivity. While Burke heaps praise on Fendi's designers, he is emphatic that far from everything resting "on a designer...
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...putting down new roots in the sandy soil nearby. Alain Ducasse, the first chef ever to win three Michelin stars for two restaurants simultaneously, followed an avenue of cypress and Tuscan pines through vineyards and olive groves and found, at the end of it, a chunky 19th century palazzo built as a hunting lodge for Leopold II, the last Grand Duke of Tuscany. In partnership with Vittorio Moretti, a building magnate and wine producer, the Frenchman transformed the ducal folly into a resort, adding an extension, a spa, tennis courts and a golf course, and refashioning an old granary...
...first encounter at his office at the Prime Minister's headquarters of Palazzo Chigi, Berlusconi gestured to an elegant armchair for the reporter, but realized right away that the long, antique sofa where he and his aide would be sitting needed to be moved first. Rather than wait for one of the many stewards to do the heavy lifting, Berlusconi, with a technique that would impress Governor Schwarzenegger, bent down himself to move one, and then the other, side of the bulky sofa himself...
...year later, in an interview over lunch at Palazzo Grazioli, Berlusconi's private Rome residence, a waiter brought a large porcelain bowl filled with fresh cherries after the meal. Berlusconi offered the fruit to the reporter and each of his own aides, all of whom offered a polite "no grazie." With that, he slowly started to peek in the bowl to pluck out the best cherries for himself. As the conversation continued, so did the search for each new cherry, and all the while Berlusconi pulled the bowl closer and closer until his left arm was practically wrapped around...