Hints and tips:
...The house, her grandmother and the Venetian surroundings have inspired Coco’s brand d’AddA, a clothing and accessories line....
...Current highlights include a 1946 issue featuring work by Erwin Blumenfeld, Cecil Beaton, Lee Miller and Horst, available for £224....
...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....
...“I’d continually get an itch to create less formal paintings. It became more about the rooms than the people.” For the Dickinson trio, these homes are united by a tangible comfort....
...It also depends on the style of four-poster you’d like to go for. Much as I love an antique mahogany number, I also enjoy a more tailored, 1960s-style approach....
...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....
...“Sprinting isn’t anything we’d ever really geared our programme for before.”...
...In cryptography terms, they’d hit the jackpot....
...But when we’d ask her about her politics she’d just start a sort of rhetorical diatribe that went right over our heads....
...Chess: 2344 Four-time Australian champion Cecil Purdy composed this puzzle and gave the answer as one and three-quarter moves....
...She grew up in rural Ireland, and wrote that, after the Bloody Sunday massacre, she’d have joined the IRA “in a heartbeat” if they’d have allowed her....
...I thought if you go to see Virginia Woolf’s house, surely you’d want to go and see the books as well?”...
...An exhibition of the artist’s work opens at London’d National Theatre in January. Whoever’s in the frame, smooth the path with questions, Howgate advises....
...Stefanidi then embellished the spaces with modernist designs from Shila’s “maison d’objets” design studio (all of which are available for purchase)....
...Hayes, 38, has been likened to a modern-day John Singer Sargent, and trained at the Charles H Cecil Studios in Florence. Hayes immediately wanted to paint her. “I’m obsessed with profile....
...“Trevor had done some architectural work for him, and I’d created printed textiles,” recalls Joan, as Adrian excitedly points out one of his mother’s designs on a cushion, “printed for Heal’s in 1947”....
...This was the best Peking duck I’d ever consumed....
...Forget the statue — I’d like the money my parents paid for my Ladybird Book back....
...(A decade ago, for instance, how many Oxford students would have recognised the slightly crumpled man roosting atop Oriel College, now widely known to be the contentious Cecil Rhodes?)....
...Tuscany’s blooming heirloom In 1924, Iris and Antonio Origo purchased La Foce, a 2,800-hectare estate on a hill above Tuscany’s Unesco-protected Val d’Orcia....
...“I don’t know if I’d put it in those terms,” he says. “There’s a sense that there’s a job to be done....
...Cecil Rhodes? Everyone who misses the cut could be stored away until a future round....
...I’d like something impressive. Any thoughts? I long for a dazzling house entrance....
...I’d visit the Aswan dam, then sleep in Agatha Christie’s room in the Old Cataract hotel....
...For a long time last year I was doing concerts in my living room called the Robe Recitals, where I’d film myself singing a song every morning....
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