Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...And the softer shades of “Where I am”, “Ghostrumental” and “It Goes” are from a 2022 group project inspired by the poet Eve L Ewing....
...Coton Manor’s main garden covers 6 acres with a wild-flower meadow on 3 more and a superb bluebell wood on another 6....
...to the Musée d’Orsay’s magnificent Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism is smothered in bright red flowers — enlarged versions of the scarlet blots and flecks swarming the long grasses of a bluish-green meadow...
...Those textural, trompe-l’œil effects interrupt the slickness of photorealism. “These visual cues of entropy are a demarcation of time, or real life,” the artist says....
...When I sit there, I feel like I am in a Woody Allen movie....
...Ogulu made his musical debut in 2010 with a string of single releases, eventually releasing his debut album, L.I.F.E – Leaving an Impact For Eternity in 2013....
...Head pastry chef Jérémy Prakhin has hand-crafted the creature – which is filled with hazelnut gianduja – from chocolate supplied by Valrhona, a luxury French chocolatier based in the small town of Tain-l’...
...F1 and its governing body, the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile, decided that this could be achieved from 2026 onwards through power units that are a 50-50 combination of a small capacity internal...
...Digital assets Winner: Allen & Overy Originality: 8; Leadership: 9; Impact: 9; Total: 26The firm advised the Hong Kong government on its first bond issuance via blockchain token, which uses Hong Kong dollar...
...I interviewed him earlier this month, sat on bar stools at the far end of Brutto’s L-shaped bar (this was, he said, his personal “best table”)....
...Among my top picks are Santa María del Naranco, in a meadow high above Oviedo, built for King Ramiro I in the mid-ninth century, and San Julián de los Prados, whose stucco walls are covered in paintings....
...Allen & Overy O: 6; L: 7; I: 6; Total: 19The firm is broadening services beyond traditional legal advice....
...The delivery of the MSC Euribia from the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard on France’s west coast in May led to a surge in the country’s exports....
...The idea gained momentum the following month when Ganni, the Scandinavian clothing label owned by the LVMH-backed private equity firm L Catterton, promised it would phase out virgin leather by 2023 because...
...influence extends to the senior governance level, after Emirati former rally driver Mohammed Ben Sulayem won last year’s election to replace Frenchman Jean Todt as head of the Fédération Internationale de l’...
...Grey is indeed their main colour, complemented by a ring of maroon, quite unlike the sombre snakehead fritillaries which are nowhere finer than in the meadows of Oxford....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
...The last tranche of seven works from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were a throwback to easier times, each selling above estimate and topped by Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Black Iris VI” (1936), which...
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...For me it was an arson attack at Gare de l’Est. No one was injured, but the fire destroyed about 50 cables, disrupting services....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...I can tel his li’l ass totally chalant!”...
...On a five-day itinerary, guests cycle up to 50km through forests, meadows and gently rolling hills, stopping at castles, rural villages and vineyards....
...At Palazzo Moroni, I climb a wildly frescoed staircase worthy of the Grand Canal — trompe-l’œil figures hanging off the ceiling, mythical women on the walls — into rose-scented gardens and a rumpled meadow...
...“In my defence,” he notes in his memoir L’Envers du décor, “nobody in government was interested in the subject.”...
International Edition