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...Claude Lorrain’s “Landscape with Aeneas at Delos” inspired the 18th century landscape at Stourhead in Wiltshire, which in turn inspired pictures....
...There, black vertical slashes march across the bottom like fence posts beneath a pale lavender sky....
...“With the help of Petersham Nurseries, we made the garden a little less formal; we grew the lavender and the box hedges up.”...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Other Face of the Moon by Claude Lévi-Strauss, my favourite anthropologist....
...The last meal that truly impressed me was a dinner at Claude Colliot in the Marais....
...Hermès has worked with Jean-Claude Ellena since 2004, and more recently Christine Nagel (whose first key fragrance for the French house is imminent). Guerlain has Thierry Wasser....
...Artists have influenced gardening styles; the works of Claude Lorrain (1604-82), Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) and Salvator Rosa (1615-73) were among those key to the development of the landscape movement...
...The chintzy blue-and-white wallpaper will soon be replaced, Glover explains, producing a plate of shortbread flavoured with lavender from the garden....
...The finest example here is her 1883-84 portrait of a girl at a window which employs stubby, swift strokes to create a lattice of dappled lavender and violet blues that bind the girl’s white dress into roofs...
...The phloxes are twice as lovely as ever and the deep lavender blues are the best....
...You could bring a bit of peacock style to a morning suit by having it in a grey Prince of Wales check with a lavender overcheck, a plain grey trouser and a lavender waistcoat....
...We cannot afford a day at the spa, but we think a ‘Natural Wheat Bag, All-Over Body Pillow with lavender’ will make the governor feel better and help his sleepless nights....
...Suddenly, there is rhythm, cadence, drama; as if one was looking at a painterly snapshot of a play, or a ballet, with nature’s forms – the arc of a tree branch, a brooding, lavender mountain, a path snaking...
...Little wonder many governments are reluctant to give up the data: they show that, far from most of the money going to preserve the lavender fields of Provence and the traditional hill farmers of the Welsh...
...‘Claude Monet, (1840-1926)’ is at Wildenstein & Co, New York, until June 15, tel+1 212 879 0500, www.wildenstein.com...
...She stands centre-stage in a chic striped jacket and lavender blouse, her frizzy russet hair an artwork itself. “We will answer any questions,” says Jeanne-Claude. “Nothing is too personal....
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