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...“I watched him build his empire and, by the way, it is an empire,” said Mary Ann Tighe, chief executive of another real estate firm CBRE’s New York office....
...At Old House Gardens, a specialist heritage-bulb supplier in Ann Arbor, Michigan, sales of favourite tulip varieties such as Columbine ($12.50) – a delicious swirl of raspberry pink and mauve – are limited...
...A lush close-up of ripening bananas, still on the tree, was painted in Jamaica in 1953, when he stayed at Goldeneye as a guest of Ian Fleming and his wife Ann....
...Celebration (2000) is closer to Restoration comedy in tone: a merciless social satire about a couple of wealthy East End wide-boys (Cook and Phil Davis) treating their wives (Celia Imrie and Tracy-Ann Oberman...
...“This commode is generally considered to be Chippendale’s finest neoclassical masterpiece,” says Ann Sumner, historical collections adviser to the Harewood House Trust....
...But Dragon Rock, as Wright’s daughter Ann named the house, is not a prototype of how the rest of us should live....
...These days, she favours Ann Demeulemeester’s white shirts, themselves inspired by the one Smith wore on the cover of her 1975 album Horses....
...Celia Birtwell, fashion designer. Christopher Clark, non-executive chairman, Urenco, the nuclear group. Bryan Ferry, singer-songwriter. Colin Firth, actor....
...He was politically courageous in the extreme when he leapt to Mr Blair's defence against Ann Toward, the widow of Anthony Wakefield, a guardsman recently killed by a bomb in Iraq....
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