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...Milan, for all its chic cosmopolitanism, is also a place of snobbishness and bourgeois judgmentalism....
...Anne Gunning (1929-90) is sometimes referred to as one of the first “supermodels”; the Briton was a staple of Life magazine and Vogue, photographed by Norman Parkinson or Milton H Greene....
...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...The California brothers Greene and Greene employed organic, Japanese-inflected designs as part of the American Arts and Crafts movement....
...She enrolled in an illustration course at Goldsmiths, where she met her future husband, Alexander Plunket Greene....
...However, this is now the party of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene and QAnon. And I think those kind of examples might be a little bit of self-soothing on the part of Democrats....
...He is wearing a pale pink V-neck jumper under a suit, with a Burberry scarf and a large watch....
...“In London, I love that you’re never very far from a park, and that’s the same in Fort Greene,” Wek says....
...Fifty years ago, on July 4 1971, Michael S Hart typed the text of “The Declaration of Independence” into a Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois....
...Farrow & Ball and fancy rivals such as Mylands and Little Greene have been swept along by the rush to improve homes that have doubled as schools and workplaces in lockdown....
...Equity investors make bets on future earnings and many analysts argue soaring stock indices suggest a rapid, V-shaped economic recovery is being priced in. But this explanation is too simplistic....
...I can glimpse a red-and-white gingham shirt under a V-neck navy jumper and a pair of antique drop earrings — her “uniform” of the moment — against a room wallpapered in mossy green velvet....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...By contrast, the Bourgeois Monts Damnés 2017 Sancerre seemed a bit heavier on its feet....
...To stay ahead of trends, Mark Greene believes the best approach is to “double down on the firm’s DNA”....
...Since then we’ve devoted tastings to Brunello, Chianti Classico, sherry, Languedoc wines, great dry German Rieslings, Riesling Kabinetts and Cru Bourgeois red Bordeaux....
...I much appreciated this op-ed by Richard V. Spencer, the US navy secretary who was fired last Sunday for trying to shield the US system of military justice from Trump’s interference....
...friend of Plunket Greene’s in the 1940s)....
...It was the work of Prouvé’s contemporary and sometime collaborator Pierre Jeanneret, who designed them, along with the V-leg Committee chair on which I sat and the easy chairs by the picture window, for...
...In coming years, today’s winners v losers divide may be replaced by a split over climate action....
...But also something seedily glamorous, a reluctance to be bound by the bourgeois rules of domesticity....
...Job moves Nick Mackenzie is set to become the new chief executive of UK pub chain Greene King, replacing veteran Rooney Anand, the FT reported....
...“The life of a writer began and is actually quite dull, literary bourgeois. The great adventures are going on inside your head.”...
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