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...The state’s luxuriant landscape attracted James, heir to a vast American railroad and timber fortune and poet-patron of Surrealist painters....
...The maximum you can criticise is selling a gift,” said the conservative politician, who denies separate charges of involvement in illegal timber exports while in office. “He’s a simple guy....
...(“The man can’t write worth a damn,” he said, according to Christopher Hitchens, though his view would mellow.)...
...Goldfinger According to Grown In Britain, which promotes the use of indigenous wood, the UK imports £7.8bn of timber every year. Only China imports more....
...I am supposed to say something here about the crooked timber of humanity. “Look, even this scourge of fascists and communists was a flawed man.”...
...Many of Alexander’s early templates were copied from the ornate decorations of Khiva’s tiles and timber....
...Now Grade II-listed, Clendinning’s 1960 station at Oxford Road, Manchester, was based on a lightweight timber shell....
...More gardens would have been added if Christopher Wren’s plans for rebuilding after the fire had been realised....
...Copper, iron ore, the key ingredient needed to make steel, palladium and timber all hit record highs in May, while agricultural commodities including grains, oilseeds, sugar and dairy have also jumped....
...Daniel J Hinkley, “Windcliff: A Story of People, Plants and Gardens” (Timber Press)....
...“A glass box just wouldn’t have worked,” Christopher tells me, “not just for the collections of drawings, but with the house.”...
...A double helix-shaped paper sculpture by artist Deepa Panchamia sits on an adjacent living room wall, while abstract Christopher Farr rugs with designs by Anni Albers add interest underfoot....
...When he bought his first home — a converted cabin in the woods near Roscoe, part of the Beaverkill Valley in the Catskills Mountains — New Yorker Christopher Kissock had been visiting the area for years,...
...Coming after the exuberant baroque of Sir Christopher Wren’s St Paul’s Cathedral (started in 1675) in London and John Vanbrugh’s Castle Howard in North Yorkshire (started in 1699), Georgian architecture...
...The rooms in the new timber-clad annexe are large, bright and contemporary, with views that speak for themselves: each one is graced with a splendid overview of the vineyards, radiating avenues that cut...
...Christopher Woods, ‘Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens’ (Timber Press, £29.99) Follow @FTProperty on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...After the first world war, the Forestry Commission recognised the need to secure timber supplies....
...He spoke fondly of Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher and regarded Christopher Soames, the last British governor, who oversaw the independence election in 1980, as a friend....
...Hospital lore has it that the veterans’ quarters are called berths because the timber came from captured French ships....
...This is something New York, Chicago and Dubai have long realised, but it is new to London — at least since Christopher Wren built the spires and dome of St Paul’s Cathedral....
...In 2011, the Chanticleer gardeners issued The Art of Gardening, a handsome book about their skills and plantings, published by Timber Press....
...One large and surprising exhibit is a timber model of a design by Christopher Wren for a huge central spire for the abbey....
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