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...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...
...Her 2006 book What Terrorists Want argued that George W Bush’s war on terror was “doomed to failure”, likening it to using “a tank to catch a field mouse”....
...First used by JFK, who employed Cecil W Stoughton to capture him in office, the personal photographer of the president is supposed to be offering a public service: Pete Souza, for example, captured intimate...
...I should declare an interest: I helped launch it nine years ago, and travelled all over Italy finding the best artisans to feature there – glassblowers, wood carvers, ceramicists and furniture designers....
...President George W Bush spoke well, admitting the mistakes the US had made, vowing to fix things, and then asking for our help. “We will be stronger together,” he emphasised. Humility. Responsibility....
...There were a few minor works of portraiture, by Sir Gerald Brockhurst, Cecil Beaton and the fashion illustrator Drian, but most were heavily retouched photographs, cluttering every surface....
...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...
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in response to this article: A very British ship / From Peter W Gerrard, Kehlen, Luxembourg...
...In 2001, George W Bush replaced Clinton’s blue rug with one featuring a sunburst design created by his wife Laura....
...’s A/W 2006 cyberpunk harlequin, and Kate Moss in a Philip Treacy hat from A/W 1998....
...Visitors wander between them as Hepworth delivers a monologue in precise, regal tones: “I am basically and primarily a carver,” she declares, “and the properties of stone and wood and marble have obsessed...
...Henry Cole, the founding director of the V&A, encouraged the purchase of Strudwick’s series of photographs titled “Old London: Views by W. Strudwick”....
...More than 30 per cent of citizens in the county – which backed George W. Bush in 2004 but swung to Mr Obama in 2008 – are African-American, much higher than the national average....
...This is where he reads and many of the books tell the story of his life and times: first editions dedicated to him by Thatcher, Cecil Parkinson and Jeffrey Archer....
...banal, these mark what the catalogue celebrates as an aesthetic of “dumbness” and “indifference”: Liam Gillick’s plexiglass ceiling “Big Conference Platform Platform”, Julian Opie’s aluminium cupboard “W”...
...A virtuoso carver, his name is revered within the arts and crafts movement....
...squealed poet Edna St Vincent Millay when she arrived to find Harold Acton, Cecil Beaton and Maugham’s lover and housekeeper Gerald Haxton on the terrace....
...It took another decade before F.W. de Klerk told the white parliament, 20 years ago on Tuesday, that its days of domination were over....
...Think of Grandma Moses sharing an easel with J.M.W. Turner....
...The declaration – agreed by 14 world leaders, including President George W Bush and Mr Brown, as well as the business leaders – calls for a UN meeting to be convened next years and binds the signatories...
...Whether or not you believe fashion portraiture deserves to be seen in the context of fine art, there is no denying that these contemporary image-makers are mirroring and documenting an era, just as Cecil...
...Fuchsia Dunlop is the author, most recently, of ‘Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook’ (Ebury Press and W.W.Norton) ………………………………………….. Savour it Here’s how Peking Duck is traditionally made....
...Men of substance The Serpentine Pavilion by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Belmond still gets oohs and ahs but there was a gee whiz or two for other technology at Tuesday night’s gala dinner for the Fortune Global...
...“No, after you, Cecil,” came the reply. It could go on for quite a long time....
...Richard Ford’s selection includes classic stories by authors including Eudora Welty and Raymond Carver, but also incorporates newer voices....
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