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...The pits disappeared during a conservative backlash, an age of chintz sofas and Laura Ashley or Martha Stewart designs. Interiors became more wholesome in the Reagan/Thatcher era....
...“It’s inherently very camp to match your bed,” says Nell Diamond, New York-based founder and chief executive of Hill House Home....
...It is certainly a draw for Michael Hill, creative director of men’s clothing purveyor Drake’s of London....
...Archangel Hill is her third album since her comeback on 2016’s Lodestar. She’s now 87....
...Blahnik lived in Notting Hill, in an apartment in Colville Terrace....
...Of all the lets in Notting Hill, west London, that Strutt & Parker estate agency has agreed so far this year, 70 per cent attracted competing bids, with most going for more than the asking price....
...The setting of 1987, meanwhile, is gestured to by the Laura Ashley-ish frocks of Léa Seydoux as the English lover of Philip, played by Franco-Greek actor Denis Podalydès....
...This farrago of nonsense turned dangerous when Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a magistrate to whom Oates also told his tale, was found dead in a ditch at Primrose Hill outside London....
...Mike Ashley’s Frasers retail group doubled its expected write-off of property values and related assets, saying further Covid-19 related restrictions to trading looked “almost certain”....
...Ashley Palmer-Watts, a Fat Duck alumni who created Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner restaurants, had also flown out. The chef caught Clarke’s eye with the posh Pinarello road bike he had brought with him....
...Andrew Hill Control of the pandemic should free employers and employees to choose where and how certain tasks are to be done in the future....
...andrew.hill@ft.com Twitter: @andrewtghill...
...The 1980s country trend is also fashionable — think Laura Ashley, pastel shades, ruffles, glazed chintz and paint jobs, such as stippling....
...These hills have been the place to see out plagues in style since The Decameron. The frescoed Medici-style villa, surrounded by citrus trees, vines and olives, is “just a hop” from the city centre....
...Three-bedroom apartments at The Harbour cost from £1.495m to £2.795m, and three of the nine have already been reserved prior to their 2022 completion, says Ashley Faull of Waterfall Developments....
...The UK group’s recently appointed chief executive Ulrik Bengtsson and chief financial officer Matt Ashley would receive a cash payment worth 200 per cent of their salaries if the deal goes through and William...
...American poet Amanda Gorman recites her work ‘The Hill We Climb’ during the inauguration. President Joe Biden hugs First Lady Jill Biden, son Hunter and daughter Ashley....
...He replaces Matt Ashley, who is leaving to become CFO of the software group Micro Focus....
...To extend Mr Ashley’s metaphor, most companies are now having to make up the script as they go along, but bad actors tend to be worse at improvisation. andrew.hill@ft.com Twitter: @andrewtghill...
...In Walton-on-Thames, these include Burwood Park and Ashley Park....
...They have a daughter together, Ashley. “She gave me back my life,” he wrote in his memoir. Mr Biden is well known for making personal connections — though he can occasionally be long-winded....
...Former William Hill boss Philip Bowcock has joined as interim chief. More here....
...Laura Ashley has gone bust....
...It was forced to write off roughly £3m when the chain entered administration in 2018, before being acquired by Frasers, the conglomerate owned by retail billionaire Mike Ashley....
...Job moves Katharine Poulter, current chief operating officer of Laura Ashley, has been appointed as chief executive officer with immediate effect. Ms....
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