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...Travis & Emery, 17 Cecil Court, London WC2; travis-and-emery.com...
...That said, bassists Jimmy Garrison and Cecil McBee deliver a mood-setting masterclass of drones and strums and Coltrane’s harp, fleshed out by guest tamboura and harmonium, engrosses....
...Carnegie also had a much more positive influence on civilisation during his working life than did Cecil Rhodes or Alfred Nobel, whom the letter writer also mentions....
...Cecil Rhodes was a racist and imperialist who established an entire British colony based on brutal exploitation....
...She’s also extremely fabulous; as Maria Shollenbarger observes while on a visit, her home is packed with “Cecil Beaton portraits and Capote Black and White Ball snapshots attesting to her social power”....
...By the time we leave her, she is alone again — after a failed love affair with the poet Cecil Day-Lewis — “waving a flame” beneath frozen pipes during that last bitterly cold winter of the second world war...
...Cecil Beaton, the great society photographer, used all sorts of tricks to flatter his subjects after replacing what he called “hazardous candid camera shots”....
...Current highlights include a 1946 issue featuring work by Erwin Blumenfeld, Cecil Beaton, Lee Miller and Horst, available for £224....
...Also here are organisers such as Despa Robinson, who founded the grime label StayFresh, and Cecil Morris, whose Birmingham pirate radio station PCRL was repeatedly pulled off the air before finally being...
...This season, menswear has embraced the gimlet-tinged mood of Cecil Beaton’s diaries, the roman à clefs of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, and the posturing of their 1920s peers....
...Eyman is a veteran film critic whose previous biographical subjects include Mary Pickford, John Ford and Cecil B DeMille....
...Along the way we encounter the song of the sirens, a hurricane at sea which threatens to sink the whole cast, a visit to the underworld, and enough high Romantic melodrama for half a dozen French grand operas...
...by archivist Cecil J Sharp....
...“Every time I went into these incredible houses for portrait sittings I kept seeing other corners of the rooms I wanted to paint,” says Phoebe, who trained at the Charles H Cecil Studios in Florence, London...
...of Fiat Industrial SpA – but her home emanates a sense of her formidable character, with Cecil Beaton portraits and Capote Black and White Ball snapshots attesting to her social power....
...Following Cecil’s demise, I estimated a lion was worth some $180,000 to an African economy as a living tourist attraction, compared with less than$60,000 as a dead trophy....
...(Vogue, Vanity Fair) of the people, places and fashions which, fixed by the gaze of great photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Edward Steichen and many more, distilled the essence of an era....
...“Cecil Beaton described her as ‘a marshmallow made on a welding machine’ . . . Billy developed this extraordinary accent, became kind of grand and, to some extent, internalised a lot of the snobbery....
...“It was gifted to me by Graham King, the former owner of the Museum of Witchcraft, and he was given it by the founder, Cecil Williamson. Apparently, it came from Germany, but that’s all we know.”...
...First I go directly to Cecil Beaton’s circus bed, a gilded confection complete with twisted columns, a shell-shaped headboard and, at the base, a prancing seahorse, unicorn and dolphins....
...William Cecil, Elizabeth’s chief adviser, saw Mary as a threat to his Protestant aims for England, and put a stop to further plans....
...Cecil Beaton upended static coronation portrait conventions by placing the Queen against a painted backdrop of the fan-vaulted ceiling in Henry VII’s Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey....
...During a tour of Phoenix 2, a 90-metre vessel which the Cecil Wright brokerage is offering for €125mn at the Monaco show, I meet its interior designer....
...His trainer Henry Cecil described Frankel as the best horse he had ever seen and, in all likelihood, “the best there’s ever been”, and in 2012 he retired following an undefeated 14-race career....
...Cecil Beaton photographed the royal family from 1939 to 1979, the year before his death....
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