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Das Freut Mich Sehr, ТЦ New Way, Вулиця Архітектора Вербицького, 1, Kyiv (2026)

20/06/2022

The resurgence of Venice's prized dorona grape
Long thought to be extinct, the dorona grape was prized above all others by wealthy Venetians. Now, its chance rediscovery has ignited a revival in Venice's wine.
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In the garden of an abandoned monastery, on an ancient cemetery island in the Venetian Lagoon, I found myself surrounded by life. A man bustled past with a wheelbarrow full of brambles; two women sat on the ground, tending to flowering grapevines about to burst into fruit. Preparations were afoot on the Isola di San Michele for Venice's festival season, and Laguna nel Bicchiere, a non-profit organisation devoted to the propagation of Venetian viticulture, would be providing the wine.

"In late spring and early summer there are quite a few festivals," explained Colleen McCann, a long-time member of the organisation, as she showed me around San Michele's vineyard. "Each campo [city square] has its own different celebration, and on the solstice in June there's three days of festivities at the [Church of San Giovanni in] Bragora. We go there and offer people an ombra [small glass] of wine, with the idea being to let the city know about Venice's historical vineyards."

16/06/2022

What makes the perfect escapist retreat?
How do ultra-escapist getaways around the world offer sanctuary from frantic, everyday life? With a sense of wonder, fantasy or history – or with a complete immersion in simplicity and nature, writes Dominic Lutyens.
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Burying our heads in a book and our toes in a beach offers escape from frantic working lives for many of us. Yet, when it comes to some of the world's most beautiful escapist getaways, from hotels and private villas to entire resorts, a complex, multisensory raft of factors come into play.

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Storytelling is the buzzword in interiors for creating spaces that imaginatively reference a venue's location and history, giving it a unique atmosphere. For guests, such decors draw attention to the venue's interesting past, overtly or subliminally, and make their stay more memorable.

15/06/2022

'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy
How did a bucolic dreamland became the perfect escape from real life? Anita Rao Kashi explores a whimsical world of nostalgia, tranquillity and folksy mysticism.
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A few weeks into lockdowns everywhere, a curious thing happened on Instagram feeds. More and more, they filled with images of pretty cottages adorned with climbers and flower-laden trellises, soft-focus sunbeams streaming through dense foliage, dappled wooded pathways and earthy mushrooms growing in abandon, tea tables and picnics in shaded gardens near gurgling streams laden with homemade sourdough bread and scones, soft cotton dresses with smocking and embroidered with strawberries and butterflies... part surreal, part escapist fantasy from the horrors around, and partly about taking control. The phenomenon had a hashtag – . It's a trend that has slowly become the standout aesthetic of the year 2020. Much like Scandinavian concepts hygge and friluftsliv, the pastoral aesthetic of cottagecore is striking a chord.

09/06/2022

Oksana Linde and the forgotten pioneers of electronic music
The recent release of an album 39 years in the making is part of a global movement shedding a light on women composers who have been overlooked, writes Allyson McCabe.
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When she was 17 years old, Daphne Oram was told by the famous medium Leslie Flint that she was destined to become a great musician – a prophecy that led her to ditch plans to train for a career in nursing. Instead, Oram took a position as a music balancer with the BBC in 1943. She tested microphone input and output levels, and when musicians performed in wartime, she stood at the ready with a pre-recorded version of the music on the turntable, should the live broadcast be interrupted by the intrusion of enemy fire.

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By the mid-1940s, Oram started conducting sonic experiments after hours, composing a 1949 piece called Still Point for double orchestra, live electronics, and turntables. A bit too ahead of its time, it was rejected by the BBC, though Oram was promoted to studio manager. In 1957 she created the first commissioned piece of electronic music in BBC history shortly before co-founding the influential BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Recognising the potential for technology to create and express an entirely new musical language, she left the BBC in 1959 to establish her own studio where she invented "Oramics," a system to transform drawings into sounds via the transfer of etchings on to 35mm film stock.

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