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...In 2022, their imports were valued at £1.5bn, 22 per cent more than in 2021. The English garden is not insular....
...Joaquim Tenreiro, Masterworks is showing at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, until 22 December, and in London from May 2024....
...The fashion designer Anya Hindmarch has recently reopened “Anya’s Grotto”, a shop space on Chelsea’s Pont Street that she transforms into a Christmas wonderland, complete with a candy-cane forest, twinkling...
...Most of the time we’re surprised to find famous people are small; the designer is tall, looming large even if leaning on a cane....
...Winter 2021-22 was such a non-event that grey-leaved helichrysums and ivy-leaved geraniums survived without being brought into a sheltered conservatory or greenhouse....
...In 2015, in response to the shooting of three Venezuelan soldiers on the often-lawless 2,219-km border, Maduro ordered the deportation of more than 22,000 Colombians....
...Even the style of his cane, which he carries for a mobility issue, is chic and antique. But his old-school charm belies an enthusiasm to modernise his field as a dealer and a collector....
...Hounds looking to showcase their sartorial Christmas spirit can accessorise further with a unique candy-cane rope lead (from €24) from Irish dog brand Pawtique....
...Victorian maple flooring reclaimed from the London Design Museum by Daniele Barco, with the marble surface produced for Ishkar by artisans in Peshawar. goldfinger.design Bamboo Leaf hook by Spicer and Wood £22...
...Using the traditional construction techniques of lashing canes together with bindings, her community created a series of sculptures which are like drawings in air, or maps, or codes....
...‘Civil servants and ministers seemed bewitched by him’ Lex Greensill arrived in the UK in 2001, the 24-year-old son of a sugar cane farmer from Bundaberg in Australia....
...Sales were up more than 22 per cent in 2019 compared with the previous year — and by nearly 30 per cent in Scandinavia. “Our new customer is young,” says Montague....
...As always, food vendors (who some Thais jokingly call the CIA because of their uncanny foreknowledge of protest sites) were there, selling sugar-cane juice and sausages....
...Options include bagasse — sugar cane residue — but the company has not yet fixed on a solution....
...Clockwise from far-left: citrus juicer, £119.95, hartsofstur.com; candy cane, £2.50, mrstanleys.co.uk; double magnum claret, £73.99, bbr.com; Kinto brewer set, £180, boroughkitchen.com; drinks rocks by Areaware...
...Meanwhile, the French cane used in Trad’s screens, stocked by Joy Mardini Design Gallery, is locally made. Nayef Francis’s “Weave” pendant lamps have a similar aesthetic....
...Pardo has painted himself in a couple of instances, too (in the vestibule to rooms 21 and 22)....
...Now, 58 digital prints and 22 originals are on show for the first time in a fascinating exhibition in the writer’s home town....
...Concerns about low coffee inventories and high demand failed to support coffee with the arabica benchmark trading $1.22 a pound, a level not seen since May last year....
...Highlights of the 250 pieces here include his “Dragonfly” series (1921-22), which boast curved handles stretched outwards like insects’ wings from a wafer-thin vessel....
...ABF’s stock has fallen 22 per cent over the past 12 months on concerns about Primark’s sales growth. The shares were 1 per cent lower in early London trading at £25.90....
...Umbrellas and canes were stowed in a long drawer below. Then there are the stairs, one beautiful spiral running the entire height of the building and inducing an exquisite vertigo....
...So, 22 espaliered malus trees have arrived with bare roots....
...Wet weather also leads to a reduction of sugar concentration in the cane....
...Campbell is one of about 20 advisers taking part in a new service called “By Appointment” offered at London’s Art16 fair this year (May 20-22)....
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