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...On view in London at a presale exhibition from 22 February before March 2 auction; sothebys.com Treasures from François and Betty Catroux’s French Riviera residence François Catroux and his wife Betty...
...Nine ground-floor deluxe suites have their own gardens and pools. The biggest starts at €1,470 a night. I risk getting wet by waving at my wife Jess and our four-year-old son Jake....
...Anne Thorne, co-founder of Matrix and now principal of her own practice, recently completed an innovative co-housing scheme for older people in Colchester, Essex....
...“I can come to the pub and meet someone but I can’t have them in my garden.”...
...Her mother Betty had bipolar disorder and, in 1968, after what Bryan describes as “eight years of hell”, was found drowned. Worse followed....
...And there was Breuer’s remarkable plan for a “Garden City of the Future”. Perhaps most fascinating, though, are the most ephemeral designs....
...Her parents had LPs of Montand and Piaf, and packed her off at 18 to the south of France to learn the language....
...It ran to 19 LPs – a mammoth investment as much for record companies as for record collectors....
...But this looks more like the film set from a period drama than the Betty Ford Clinic....
...In 1963 Betty Friedan described an earlier age of domestic handbooks for women in The Feminine Mystique. What happened then?...
...The best of a recent crop of vegetable-led cookbooks is Nigel Slater’s account of cooking from his kitchen garden....
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