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Sometimes the Best Gift Is Time Alone

If self-reflection comes better through a piece of clay, La Meridiana in Tuscany offers classes all year long, including a weeklong hand building course (€1,700 [$1,770] tuition) in March and a course on creating contemporary porcelain jewelry (€1,900 tuition) with Luca Tripaldi, a sculptor, in July. Finding inner peace and meditation in a countryside setting…

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Snakes on a Gift List

About 25 years ago, the jewelry designer Sylvie Corbelin was at the Musée Guimet, France’s national museum of Asian arts, when she overheard a woman talking to a group of children. “She was in front of a sculpture of Buddha with two Naga snakes and she said, ‘The snake is like a human: To grow,…

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