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...(There is an apocryphal tale that Marie Antoinette, after being presented with a silk rose, fainted at the sight of it.)...
...Flowers and ribbons also abound at Simone Rocha, where bows and ruching bedeck wistful, diaphanous fabrics, their shapes resembling tiered, sickly sweet cakes....
...In a bid to tell the history of the house with a bejewelled symbol associated with a muse (a cross for 17th-century Marie de’ Medici, a flower for 18th-century Marie Antoinette, a dragon’s wing for the courtesans...
...And then we had Killers of the Flower Moon, the Scorsese, Martin Scorsese film, both done pretty well....
...But how much more resonant are the belongings of the executed: the shoe that fell from Marie Antoinette’s foot as she stepped on to the scaffold of the guillotine; the vest King Charles I wore to keep warm...
...A Savonnerie carpet commissioned by Louis XIV, a silver soup tureen that Catherine II gave to one of her lovers, a pair of candelabra that once belonged to Marie Antoinette – all are here....
...Escapist shows heavy on miniskirts and optimistic colours felt irrelevant and sometimes Marie Antoinette-ish; and collections too rooted in pragmatism failed to excite....
...They will find out their favourite flowers, or how firm they like their pillows....
...Parmentier persuaded Marie Antoinette to wear potato flowers in her hair, and the king to wear them in his buttonhole. With that, potatoes became fashionable in France....
...Konig has used wallpapers from Soane, lamps from Antoinette Poisson and tweed carpet by Tim Page, and no two bedrooms are the same....
...The fantastical aesthetic, inspired in part by the outfits of Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, amps up the Regency look in favour of rainbow-hued, heavily embellished gowns and glittering hair...
...Take the tablecloth I noticed recently on Antoinette Poisson’s Instagram account....
...The only tea, I suspect, that comes close is the Marie Antoinette-inspired affair at the lavish new hotel Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle....
...“She would dip flowers and plants into a moulding material, and then use the mould to craft bronzes. It allowed her to work as close to nature as possible,” Mitterrand says....
...With her sister Corinne, Mankoo sells bespoke creations (from £35) inspired by rococo gilding, Marie Antoinette and the “cakes of royal weddings in the 1950s”....
...The Marquise de Pompadour, the official mistress to Louis XV, is said to have decorated her garden with porcelain flowers saturated in scent to amuse the king....
...It’s very rural there so I grew up surrounded by nature, which awakened me to its beauty and mystery. thierryboutemy.com My favourite commission was creating the flowers for Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette...
...Nazis loved exactly that same vision of wild flower meadows and cottages, with girls in floral crowns wafting about gathering eggs....
...The task of fulfilling the patriarch’s vision fell principally to Antoinette (“Toni”) Tollman, his elder daughter, who oversees design at the family’s luxury brands....
...COE shiprocksantafe.com Sekisen, KyotoMichikazu Mizutani, a fifth-generation art dealer and an expert on Japanese history, is best known for the rare bamboo flower baskets he sells from a 125-year-old townhouse...
...First flourishing in ancient Egypt and China, permanent botanicals also propagated in the royal courts of Europe, from Italy to Versailles, where they found favour during the time of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette...
...Her flowers and ruffles and bulbous coats in velvet, hung with passementerie fringe, were modern-day reflections of Lacroix’s love for intricate detail....
...It produces honey from beehives and flowers that are used to make cocktails, while the veg goes down to the kitchens....
...This feels very modern and stylish,” says Atherton Hanbury of the piece, which is hand engraved with lotus flowers (a potent ancient Egyptian symbol of renewal and rebirth) and whose feet are a nod to stone...
...Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond to March 28 orangetreetheatre.co.uk Pass Over Antoinette Nwandu’s searing play fuses poetry and politics to deliver a potent message about race relations in the US....
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