Word: venetian
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...most rekindled craftsmanship across Europe is the growing market for something distinctive in a world of sameness. It is this, together with newfound respect for those who made great works without great machines, that has Thom Price, a 31-year-old American, working in a squero, a traditional Venetian gondola workshop. Or that finds Australian enologist David Baverstock producing award-winning wines from old grape varieties found only in Portugal...
...After five years, Price, a native of North Carolina, has become a Venetian at heart. "It's such a small area for so many tourists," he says, shaking his head. "We have to defend ourselves." He has found himself a defender of the gondola as well. "My goal is to help preserve the tradition, and this is the place to do it," he says. "I could go back and make gondolas in the U.S., but it's not as interesting." Besides, who in America knows a real gondola from a plywood imitation? "In Las Vegas you can see some very...
...alves is 17 years old, with long dark hair and a smile that sparkles with enthusiasm. Just after 8 a.m., she's already busy at her workstation on the fourth floor of a state-of-the-art training school - all gleaming white concrete and smoked glass windows. Venetian blinds are drawn against the morning...
...wedding rings, for hawking "Brad & Jennifer white-gold wedding bands with diamonds," an alleged violation of an agreement prohibiting the rings' reproduction or sale. The bands, available in lovely 18-karat gold, were selling for a mere $1,000 at outlets in Palm Desert, Calif., and at Las Vegas' Venetian Hotel. The suit also claims that "Damiani was bent on obtaining...the type of publicity that money can't buy: the purported endorsement and sponsorship of perhaps the world's most recognizable couple." Siegfried and Roy might have something to say about that last part...
...magical week, we visited museums--including the Palazzo Grassi's stunning exhibition on the Etruscans--took long walks, dined out and window-shopped. Just before we flew home in first-class comfort, we attended a brilliant performance of the Four Seasons in Santa Maria della Pieta, the church where Venetian-born Antonio Vivaldi first performed this work in the early 18th century...