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...B there @ 2”) and arrive and stay there all day. Talking about nothing. Spending nothing. The group was amorphous; people would drop in and out....
...Konig has used wallpapers from Soane, lamps from Antoinette Poisson and tweed carpet by Tim Page, and no two bedrooms are the same....
...The B&B’s rooms are sweet rather than swank, exhibiting that typical LA mix of English cottage and surf shack....
...This was most evident in the 18th century, when women’s fashion in Europe was dominated by low-cut corsets a-la Marie Antoinette....
...US dealers Marl & B are selling a JE kimono outfit for $1,595....
...Me, though, I cannot see it without thinking of a) the kind of pastorally eroticised 1970s chocolate bar or air-freshener ads that used to pollute primetime TV in my childhood or b) waiting nervously for...
...I love that you can go for a walk and learn something quite concentrated and fascinating about Rousseau or Marie-Antoinette you’d never otherwise discover unless you went out of your way to find it....
...She looked fabulous, like a mucky Marie Antoinette. I was hoping that her star quality might reflect, just a little, on me....
...On the handbags, where a letter B was used as hardware, the branding was often blackened out....
...Don’t miss the detail about his cat, Choupette, “on whom he doted to an almost Marie Antoinette-ish degree”....
...It struck us that two dozen companions — our merry band of B&R brothers among the Antoinette’s 120-odd passengers — hit the sweet spot as a tour-group community: small enough that you got to know everyone...
...He is striding through the Kent town of Ramsgate towards the Royal Victoria Pavilion, a former assembly rooms built in 1903, with an ornate interior based on Marie Antoinette’s Trianon theatre in Versailles...
...Well before Queen Marie-Antoinette of France feigned dairymaid, his story begins with the development of Kew Gardens for Augusta, Princess of Wales during the 1730s....
...Pearson, in the words of Ackman, was an “outsider CEO” who ranked alongside a glittering list of business mavericks such as Henry Earl Singleton and Warren Buffett who can through their unique vision generate...
...At an earlier show she wore pink Marie Antoinette laces and carried a fan. The audience roared. It wasn’t chic. It wasn’t sophisticated....
...It lacked the global recognition it deserved, despite having been a technical innovator and the court jeweller to Marie Antoinette and many other European royals....
...B in rural Wales from an old flame....
...It was by the writer J.B. Priestley in 1933. Worse than snow Sydney hit a record of almost 46C last week. Snowbound Britain, count your blessings. brian.groom@ft.com...
...At the centre hangs “Watson and the Shark” by John Singleton Copley, which recounts a stirring scene from the life of a British merchant....
...All 55,000 hotel and B&B beds are booked, with many establishments raising their weekend prices to high season rates normally reserved for May through to October....
...Then there are short, gymslip-style black jersey dresses by Gwen Stefani, the frontwoman of the punk-ska band No Doubt and creator of the clothing line L.A.M.B. So far, so fashion....
...I have two clients (a couple and a singleton) who fall into the category of the mega-rich....
...Unlike previous generations who lived with extended families, the adult singletons of China’s experimental one-child policy want their own homes....
...“If you’re a journalist, you’re trained to have your guard up, to have your B.S.-meter finely tuned,” Tierney acknowledged. “And, frankly, our folks have been through a lot.”...
...The Puritan Gift: Triumph, Collapse and Revival of an American Dream By Kenneth and Will Hopper I.B....
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