Word: palazzos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building had long since become too cramped to contain the mushrooming Lambert operation, which in the past ten years has quintupled deposits to $203 million and added 26 branches. And the fire at last made possible the fulfillment of the baron's dream to build a modern-day palazzo that would not only rehouse the business but permit the family, reverting to custom, once again to live above its bank...
...dream was nine years abuilding. The site, across from King Baudouin's royal palace, was select but far too small. To make room, 17 lots had to be bought, including one occupied by a new office building. Lambert agreed with city planners that the new palazzo should meld with the old-world architecture of the Palais Royale-yet he wanted a contemporary design. Finally, recalling his delight at seeing Manhattan's Lever House in 1952, the Yale-educated baron chose the U.S. firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, whose partner in charge of design, Gordon Bunshaft, revolutionized...
...late-model cad (Laurence Harvey) from the advertising world, wins modest renown as "the Happiness Girl," promoting "chocolates with fairy-tale centers." Her own fairy tale ends, many escapades later, when she finds ruin at the top as the wife of a wealthy Italian nobleman. Mistress of a sprawling palazzo, she endures boredom, fame, and neglect-despising the suffocating luxury of a milieu that has nurtured and, at last, enslaved...
Fabiani used grey ostrich plumes to match his grey chiffon gown. Valentino stitched them all over his palazzo pajamas, tickled the tops of dresses with them, and in a crazy burst, banded Dalmatian-spotted coats with wide ruchings of ostrich...
Everybody's Grandfather. The really In do not feel sure they are really in until they have spent an evening or part of it at Menotti's 17th century palazzo. Marvels Menotti: "I am regularly faced by an avalanche of princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses, who swarm over my house in their wonderful clothes, eating, drinking and cooking spaghetti in my kitchen. Spoleto was conceived as a small ivory turret, but has turned into a Tower of Babel...