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...“The combination of texture, humour and the trompe l’oeil design ‘hanging’ with game honours old traditions… For Janet and Cameron, God really is in the details....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...“It’s like walking into a dream world,” says designer Cumber, of the experience of entering the golden atrium, where the stairwell walls are decked with original Cecil Beaton sketches, and into the rosy...
...That’s the “L”, our elevated train system that connects the north, south and west sides of the city. You can see the trains cutting through and over the streets – it’s just surreal....
...“I’ve always been fascinated by the De Gournay world,” says Moralioglu, from the brand’s sumptuous headquarters, surrounded by its panoramic 19th-century L’Eden design....
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...“Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Garner have all commissioned bespoke designs.”...
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...I actually read the French version, which has a prettier title, Le Charme Discret de l’Intestin....
.../ From Paul L Davies, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law, University of Oxford, UK...
...From €34; lamy.com The grooming staple I’m never without is Diptyque’s L’Ombre dans l’Eau....
...Oprah Winfrey has built a multibillion-dollar empire on the strength of hers: according to actor Reese Witherspoon, who presented the 64-year-old media mogul with the Cecil B DeMille award at the Golden...
...He loves things that are imitations of great design, he says, or that turn it on its head through illusion, like trompe-l’œil, which gives the appearance of a third dimension where none exists....
...Revenues at Hershey, the company behind Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, fell in the fourth quarter as customers gravitated towards healthier snacks....
...“I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon,” she said in her acceptance speech for a Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement award. ”When that new day finally dawns...
...“Study for a Portrait of P.L.” (1962), an unsparing depiction of the artist’s lover Peter Lacy scowling on a sofa, is the first Bacon picture where internal organs burst out though the surface of the skin...
...Among the projects Apple is vying for is a high-profile drama starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, set on a morning TV chat show....
...The sobriquet was apt: in 1912, Meyer shot the Ballets Russes’ lascivious production of “L’après-midi d’un faune”, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, and created a rare handmade book....
...A book of John F Kennedy portraits (£1,500-£2,000) is dedicated to the duchess by the former US president with the sign-off “L.O”, a sly reference to the sisters’ habit of calling him “Loved One”....
...’s strapless Chanel gown saw her present the award for best supporting actress to Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt along with her Fifty Shades co-star Jamie Dornan – the much-anticipated adaptation of E L...
...Her collaborations with artists such as Salvador Dalí, Cecil Beaton and Jean Cocteau broke down the barriers between the world of dressmaking and the fine arts....
...I’ve just started a wonderful biography of Henry Cecil, the racehorse trainer [Henry Cecil: Trainer of Genius], which is one of the best biographies – whether sport or not – that I’ve read....
...Think of Huckleberry Finn; multiply it by the kidult classics of R.L. Stevenson. Nichols previously made Take Shelter....
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