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MON TI AURU NCI, a precipitous wild in southern Lazio neglecting the ocean, is best known for its 50-odd assortments of wild orchids, its uncommon lizards and, a couple of ages back, the savage idea of its scoundrels. Finding this scene so far from the beaten track was a groundbreaking amazement for David White, guardian of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Robert Jakob, a greenhouse creator and a painter. As David reviews, in 2000 while going through Italy, they vis-ited Cy Twombly in Gaeta (WoI June 2004). 'He referenced a real estate parcel adjacent was available to be purchased. "It's...

BAUHAUS WOMEN: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (by Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler; Herbert Press, rrp £30) BAUHAUS IMAGINISTA (eds Marion von Osten and Grant Watson; Thames and Hudson, rrp £39.95) A century after the establishing of the Bauhaus, the school's ladies understudies remain to a great extent obscure. Anni Albers may have hit ongoing features with her show at Tate Modern, yet names, for example, Ruth Hollos and Etel Fodor are the stuff of references. There are two purposes behind this. After the Bauhaus shut in 1933, German ladies were forci-bly recast as moms and homemakers. Lydia Driesch-Foucar, a Bauhaus potter,...

1 There was a swing towards strappy lighting at the Salone, as observed in Forma fan tasma's trapeze-like model for Flos. 'Wire-Line' – comprising of an elastic belt and a borosilicate-glass tube that contains a drove strip – can be in-slowed down independently or gathered for an intricate sythesis. Visit flos.com. 2 Jacopo Foggini's dominance of methacry-late, a material all the more regularly used to deliver vehicle reflectors, shone brilliantly as chan deliers, for example, this 'Brilli'. Ring 00 39 02 5410 1409, or visit jacopofoggini.it. 3 Fabrics were top of the bill at Cinema Arti, a Rationalist-time previous picture...

From the antiquated sanctuaries and vivid markets of Delhi to the sentimental demolished posts of Rajasthan and the natural life of Ranthambore National Park, this entrancing nation offers an abundance of encounters for the faculties Remaining on the patio of Humayun's Tomb, a red-stone sepulcher for India's second Mughal sovereign, my breath eases back to the pace of that of the feathered creatures up above, wings spread draping still noticeable all around like dark outlines against the orange night sun. Structured in the sixteenth century by Persian draftsmen, this is the principal case of a greenhouse tomb in India –...

MARY LUSSIANA IS ENCHANTED BY AN ART AND CRAFT-FILLED HOTEL AMONG THE OLIVE GROVES AND HILLTOP TOWNS OF THE ALENTEJO REGION Somewhere in the range of two hours east of Lisbon, the scene of open fields is dabbed with olive forests and antiquated, white-washed, peak towns graced with settling storks. The as of late opened Dá Licença has brought a totally new dimension of cabin to this crude and true corner of Portugal's Alentejo region.Converted nineteenth-century ranch structures, dissipated crosswise over ground that was initially developed as a natural nursery by nearby nuns, are at the core of in excess...