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...It was just an obscure little flower on a scrappy verge, but the name burnished it and made me smile.”...
...To me, plants (and flowers, of course) make bathrooms feel less clinical, more alive and luxurious....
...Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L Strayer, Fitzcarraldo Editions £12.99, 224 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...For the Italian artist Annie Ratti, it lends a calming atmosphere to her London home and studio, renovated by design and research company Material Cultures....
...From Islamabad, you’ll travel up towards the historic Khyber Pass as the north of the country blooms with springtime flowers....
...Tolstoy is also selling a pink and blue early-19th-century cupboard with door panels painted with flowers and birds (£2,850) and an olive and rust-coloured cupboard painted with flowers and vines (£2,650...
...Though abstract works, the towers are rooted in the figurative: the flower-woman. At YSP, two small tapestries hang alongside the stacks, each one depicting a woman lost in a mop of unkempt hair....
..., a 2005 memoir of a journey she made to the Himalayas; and the novels Annie John, Lucy and The Autobiography of My Mother from 1985, 1990 and 1996 respectively....
...You can trace its influence, for example, in the work of British artist Annie Morris who, during the renovation of the French home she owns with her husband Idris Khan, drew her distinctive figures and flowers...
...Instead of flower-bearing locals, Russia faced a strong, freedom-loving nation that refused to surrender....
...There I found a table heaving with food that on first glance seemed somewhat dated: pretty but slightly fussy garnishes of flowers, platters of vol-au-vents and piped eggs laid out on a chequered tablecloth...
...As food historian Annie Gray points out, buttercream is a versatile – and tasty – ingredient, particularly when compared to the royal icing of yesteryear....
...Twenty years ago, he co-authored another cookbook, Living and Eating, with writer Annie Bell, which is filled with bossy pronouncements on things such as how to set a table (no flowers to distract from the...
...Annie Sloan’s Chalk Paint range comes in some lovely sunny shades, including the new Capri Pink, which would certainly add a pop of colour to the patio....
...Serendipitously, the launch coincided with the release of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Women flocked to the shop in search of the chinos and waistcoats that Diane Keaton had made so desirable in the film....
...It was launched eight years ago by Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld, with an aim to grow healthy plants — from food to flowers....
...Her flowers and ruffles and bulbous coats in velvet, hung with passementerie fringe, were modern-day reflections of Lacroix’s love for intricate detail....
...Jenny Eclair offers flowers on a canvas called “The Sort of Painting Middle-aged Women Do” (2019, £300), while McGrath senior has drawn himself seemingly eating a spider (£150)....
...The other, on the Artisans’ avenue, is the Donkey Sanctuary garden, designed with economy and colour sense by Christina Williams and Annie Prebensen from Devon....
...Making a bouquet of paper flowers from a vintage comic book (cost: £1.58) is one way she’s been sharing the story with her 11,000 followers on the picture-sharing app of how she stuck to a £2,500 wedding...
...They had put candles and flowers everywhere and served lasagne and wine. The way they did it and the effort they put in was an amazing surprise....
...“Several perfumers such as masters Elie Roger and Annie Buzantian have used their own gardens as inspiration,” says Theo Spilka, vice-president of new business development at flavours and fragrance house...
...“Having your characters reach to a flower or a tree or a post box is magical.”...
...We sat in the garden surrounded by verdant foliage and ate heritage tomatoes with pesto, courgette spaghetti and edible flowers, followed by pork belly with roast tamarillos, and rhubarb tarte Tatin....
...“Dystopian” or “apocalyptic” doesn’t begin to capture the rich, complex concerns of writers such as Annie Proulx, Barbara Kingsolver, Margaret Atwood or Paul Kingsnorth....
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