Hints and tips:
...“Everyone has some kind of relationship with flowers, wine or blueberries,” Hedin says. “For me, the materials I use are connected to places and people....
...When I lived in an apartment on inner-city Exhibition Street in 1994, the centre had so few residents that I had to drive to the neighbouring suburb of Carlton to buy a pint of milk....
...Two well-proven winners are yellow and orange-red Carlton and creamy-white Sempre Avanti with a central cup of orange-red....
...Tutak trained as an apprentice under Paul Pairet at Istanbul’s Ritz-Carlton before manning kitchens in China and Singapore....
...Putting mind, body and spirit in balance underpins the Thyme ethos; it’s why there is not just the eight-suite Meadow Spa, but also the gardens and orchards, the long woodland walks, the courses in flower...
...In a large regency townhouse in Carlton Gardens, where she was invited for tea, a genial gentleman described what the job would involve....
...Even those who have dealt with both the company and regulators in the past, such as Blackstone and JC Flowers, say they are not interested in these assets, according to people close to the private equity...
...It’s a romantic garden of greenery, flowers, floral fabrics and wicker chairs....
...The deal closed while he was detained in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel during the kingdom’s infamous anti-corruption campaign. The buyer was a previously little-known Syrian trader named Samer Foz....
...There was righteous anger, there was curry, there were blue and yellow flowers in the colours of the EU flag....
...A hundred yards from the Ritz-Carlton in the Financial Centre, a man in labourer’s clothing approaches me. “My friend. Pray for me. I am new here.” He wants 100 dirhams — £20 — to buy medicine....
...What an imposter I must appear then, on our final night together, when I’m ceremonially dressed in a kimono at our hotel, the elegant Ritz-Carlton Kyoto....
...Everyone dresses in yellow for the parade and the whole island is covered with flowers. It’s beautiful....
...“The seed of the flower of Pre-Raphaelitism was photography,” acknowledged Millais’ friend William Bell Scott....
...He has been purchasing contemporary art for the Ritz-Carlton’s second hotel in Kazakhstan, due to open in 2017 in the capital, Astana....
...Last year UK designer and entrepreneur Jim Rokos won an award, sponsored by the network, for a glass vase that tilts as the flowers in it absorb water....
...Further uptown, at the Ritz-Carlton hotel at Central Park, about 20 couples have worked with the concierge over the past six months to co-ordinate engagement ring shopping during their stay....
...Poelaert trained with the highly regarded Michel Bras in Laguiole, France, so flowers, herbs, salad leaves and vegetables play a large part in his cooking....
...“At the time everyone wore the same clothes but my mother liked beautiful things and she sometimes wore a bit of colour – some pink flowers on her clothes,” he says....
...“Three or four houses were burned out, a dozen others abandoned and unsaleable …Every so often one comes to net curtains and dried flowers in the front window, a home where decent people, unable to escape...
...Dave Parkinson has been mopping up gold medals at the July shows I have missed since 2006 and he took me through the plants’ secrets, as he and his wife have learnt them at their nursery at 4 West Bank, Carlton...
...The growing tourism industry, which welcomed nearly 6m travellers in 2008, up 12.2 per cent from 2007, lured native New Zealander John Close to establish a flower and vegetable farm in Sanya....
...When Top Hat Imagewear – a hotel uniform design business that works with the Ritz-Carlton, the Four Seasons and MGM Grand groups – designed a new look for the $400m overhaul of New York’s Plaza Hotel last...
...If you can’t, choose the Campton Place hotel right off Union Square, the Ritz Carlton near Nob Hill or the new St Regis downtown, writes Holly Finn....
...From the flower arrangements to the acres of marble, it screams luxury. It is also centrally located and the food is excellent....
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