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...William Dalrymple was a guest of La Dimora dei Semplici (see details below) and The Thinking Traveller (thethinkingtraveller.com) Find out about our latest stories first — follow FTWeekend on Instagram...
...dark, intriguing interiors of London’s NoMad hotel (the former Bow Street Magistrates’ Court) with its heavy drapes and lush, dark-wood library, its post-industrial greenhouse restaurant and the velvety marble...
...Following the raid, in which police removed a marble bust and hundreds of ancient coins, Veres was charged with money laundering, forgery, wire fraud and conspiracy....
...Elise Pioch, whose glass and marble incense holders form part of her brand Maison Balzac, lights one of her Chapelle sticks every evening before bed....
...Carey-Williams says he is likely to go to Seoul for a future Episode in the autumn....
...Snacks by William Blank (ex-Lyle’s) will include oysters, salt beef sandwiches and burnt butter affogato. There will also be a 20-seat terrace that I’m sure will be packed, come summer....
...“I think about Massine every day,” says Giovanni Russo, seated on a terrace at a massive marble table custom-designed for the site by the Cypriot-born, London-based designer Michael Anastassiades....
...That she was married to the Scottish sculptor William Turnbull may have further eclipsed her in some eyes....
...William Powell Frith’s 1862 panorama “The Railway Station” depicted a nation going somewhere....
...It was in 2017, while Phoebe was painting the Cholmondeley children in William Kent’s Palladian interior, the great Stone Hall, that the idea for the exhibition began to unfurl....
...Osborne, who said the museum had been the victim of theft over a period of time, also confirmed that deputy director Jonathan Williams had stepped back from his duties while an independent inquiry was conducted...
...In 1858 the journalist Edmund Yates was expelled from the Garrick for writing an unflattering portrait of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray....
...As William Dalrymple in the foreword to Journeys writes, “Don’s war photography is all about noise and dust and anger and fury, while here we are transported to a marble world of stillness and silence.”...
...Today, the person providing PR advice for the Greek prime minister is Ed Williams, boss of Edelman in Europe....
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...The writer William Gibson’s famous line about the “future”, that it “is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”, certainly applies to London....
...This time round, the issue has been reignited by a back-and-forth between Jonathan Williams, British Museum deputy director, after he came out with a super-cautious statement about a possible new “cultural...
...Visiting these formal rooms, which include a magnificent marble parlour devoted to Bacchus (created by architect James Gibbs and developed by William Kent) and sumptuous thematic bedchambers, is a sensory...
...The private gardens surrounded by pristine townhouses were built by 18th-century developer Henry William Portman, and the Wimbledon Championships offer a rare opportunity for non-residents to explore them...
...He designed the marble-lined bath, with its pull-down ledge, for developing plates....
...Notable visitors ranged from Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia to Franz Schubert and William Somerset Maugham....
...Commissioning your own garden sculpture is a must for any self-respecting garden show-off — names to drop include David Harber, David Williams-Ellis and Nic Fiddian-Green....
...Complete with marble deities and glinting stars in a faux night sky, it is worthy of the most decadent Roman emperor — or press baron....
...The last thing I bought and loved was a sculpture by the Haas Brothers that’s made of carved marble and blown glass....
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