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...These range from oils of Charles II’s mistress to Grand Tour collectables to troves of 18th-century porcelain....
...stack of rough rocks on which a smooth, monumental tabletop rests; the other, “St Stanley Bearskin Table”, is a colourful and irregular assemblage, with childlike crayon drawings and spray paint....
...Flames shoot skywards from gas flares, steam billows from chimney stacks and a maze of steel pipe twists around a procession of boilers, gasifiers and cooling towers....
...The white mansions are often topped by white gables, white chimney stacks and white baroque finials....
...Architectural historian Charles Jencks even built the shelves in his postmodern, 1980s library in the styles of the buildings in his books....
...Take a break from the news See how business schools stack up in this year’s FT Executive MBA Ranking — and read the findings from our latest FT EMBA report....
...“I sell anything and everything,” says Charles Mas, the shop’s eccentric founder and curator....
...So how does Reykjavík stack up? Jakobsdóttir would appear to have learned from the best — both her co-author and her inspiration. This is Nordic noir at its most authoritative....
...As a student of anthropology three decades ago, I spent many happy hours among the stacks of the University of Cambridge library....
...A white and crusty stack of a sculpture has handfuls of gravel stuck in the otherwise shiny glaze....
...“We are baddies on a budget,” says Jada, a young TikTok influencer speaking from behind a stack of fake-branded shoe boxes in a typical example of these videos....
...Rob Morgan, chief analyst at Charles Stanley, said that two-year gilt yields are “starting to stack up” as an alternative to cash....
...One of Banerjee’s junior colleagues compares our surroundings with Bleak House, Charles Dickens’ novel partly set in 19th-century London courts....
...Cheap and readily available gas from the UK North Sea meant the economics of nuclear did not stack up....
...Back over in Charles Town, Full Moon Lover paid off handsomely at the top of my ticket....
...“The decoration is 100 per cent from Omega Workshops,” says Morgan-Cox, “but I was also inspired by Fontana paintings, Gio Ponti furniture, and a Victorian British designer named Charles Bevan who made very...
...Abigail Bosanko The Long Room, Trinity College, Dublin “Pure beauty, and the inconfundible smell of the wood wax of the stacks and of the books’ leather. An authentic immersion experience!”...
...starts at the Goodwood racecourse near Chichester Monaco, 45th annual World Backgammon Championship Wednesday Peru, 200th anniversary of independence Thursday UK, 40 years since the wedding of Prince Charles...
...In “Mass of Images”, Jenkins emerges in a wheelchair from behind a perilously high stack of television sets and intones a mantra: “You’re just a mass of images you’ve gotten to know/From years and years...
...“There’s also a bedroom for Charles de Gaulle because he was a friend of the family.”...
...A standard buy for a collector is the gold 5-guinea coin, struck from the first year of the reign of Charles II onwards. But the one and two guinea coins have been slightly overlooked....
...These are highly prized — a 1978 stack sold at auction last year for $5.2m....
...It was a steel wall stack by Donald Judd, made in 1965. “I wanted an early work,” he says, “and this piece was so clearly explaining volume and form.”...
...The bitter irony came in 1932, when Charles Darrow came across the game and decided to recast its themes in a positive light....
...They are appearing everywhere, from the work of this year’s Pritzker Prize laureates Lacaton & Vassal to Carmody Groarke’s encapsulation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House....
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