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...The house, her grandmother and the Venetian surroundings have inspired Coco’s brand d’AddA, a clothing and accessories line....
...Beginning in 1917, when Virginia arrives at Asheham House in the Sussex Downs of southern England to convalesce after a bout of depression, the book then takes us to Dorset in 1930....
...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...
...Cecil Beaton, the great society photographer, used all sorts of tricks to flatter his subjects after replacing what he called “hazardous candid camera shots”....
...When the house in which the clothes are being worn has been designed by Renzo Mongiardino, it can throw extravagance metrics off....
...“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...
...The eye is drawn to naive oil paintings and 18th-century political prints in this poetic, timewarp house and workspace that cocoons its owners – as it did the many generations that came before them....
...“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.”...
...“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....
...My monster pike will not survive another house move. Sooner or later the ostrich egg will break. My children are hardly vying to inherit the owl....
...After the rescue of the house and its contents by then HRH The Prince of Wales, London’s Carvers & Gilders were commissioned to restore “the best bed of Dumfries House” to Thomas Chippendale’s original 18th-century...
...Unexpectedly, the house is relatively pattern free....
...Jad Comair is riding an electric surfboard that houses a battery and a small but powerful propeller....
...In 1561, Elizabeth privately backed Mary’s claim to the English succession, against Cecil’s favoured Protestant candidates, says Guy. Cecil believed religion came first and dynasty second....
...“Juddmonte is one of the most successful and respected operations in the world,” says Jason Singh, marketing manager of Tattersalls Bloodstock Auction House in Newmarket....
...Founded in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1951 by warlock and screenwriter Cecil Williamson, it moved to the Cornish coast in 1960....
...“She’d sell her house, move to a smaller house, sell that, move to a smaller flat to donate and fund so many projects and causes.”...
...Bard, a new craft and design destination in an old customs house in the port area of Leith, aims to offer a wider picture. “It’s about looking at who we are through what we make,” says Macdonald....
...On a tour around the house one winter morning he points out numerous Vanessa Bell paintings, a chaise covered in fabric designed by Cecil Beaton and a guest suite with a tiny bed that once belonged to Maynard...
...“I call myself a resting thespian,” says the author, who has a penchant for charity shops and obscure auction houses....
...Frieze co-founder Matthew Slotover, developer Gabriel Chipperfield and artist Tom Gidley, the 14-room hotel boasts a basement bar and 35-cover ground-floor restaurant run by former River Café chef Daisy Cecil...
...each other, but in contrast to the latter’s thronged tavernas and thumping nightlife, Paros is more sleepy choras, dusty red-earth interior and manageably populated beaches – still a place that can be, as Cecil...
...January – presents various masterpieces in its next sale, with a wealth of old masters’ paintings and sculptures as well as 20th-century photography by Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin and Cecil Beaton....
...The treasures of the Sitwell family at Weston Hall Portraits by Cecil Beaton are just one treat on offer as the treasures of Weston Hall, the legendary Northamptonshire home of literary siblings Edith,...
...In West Virginia, two out of every three voters backed Trump’s successful White House bid, higher than any other state....
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