Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...“They got a bad reputation as a funeral flower in the ’90s, but with new varieties appearing in chic palettes they are definitely back.”...
...These fragile and faded mid-20th-century textiles appeared on trapeze opera coats spliced together with rose Devoré jacquard and waxed Barbour cotton sleeves....
...All roses supplied by Absolute Flowers & Home...
...Akrach’s days are spent racing across the country, with thick files of paperwork loaded in the back of his makeshift hearse, between embassies, funeral homes, town halls, morgues, suburban cemeteries and...
...cuff, £370, net-a-porter.com Dior patent-leather Derby shoes, £830 Graff rose-gold Spiral Band ring, £2,400 Haymann blown-glass Wave stool by Dan Yeffet and Lucie Koldova, €2,137, silvera-eshop.com...
...& Grey, £29 A stylish container for tea, coffee or biscuits. roseandgrey.co.uk Spice jars by Estudio Tosca, from $350 each Handmade in Uruguay with jasper crystal spheres. 1stdibs.com Find out about...
...Piazza Umberto I, 21, 80073 Capri The best souvenir I’ve brought home is a crystal necklace of the Virgo of the Sea from Bahia, which was given to me by the spiritual mother of the Brazilians at the time...
...Shares in Australian funeral home operator InvoCare rose nearly 40 per cent on Tuesday after the company received a A$1.8bn (US$1.2bn) takeover bid from US private equity group TPG Global....
...The session is calming and seems to chime particularly with those working from home at the end of the week....
...Cue much confusion in the rose garden as one disguised “oligarch” after another attempts to interfere in the sale....
...Hollie Hart, lettings manager at a Winkworth agency in Crystal Palace, said the homes she was letting in the south east London neighbourhood were renting for up to 18 per cent more than they were last year...
...There was a sportswear element in looks such as a cropped parka with 3D fabric roses....
...The bestselling Ice Book (Indiana University Press) by American cocktail whizz Camper English shows edible flowers suspended in crystal-clear spheres of ice – for best results, he recommends using the dedicated...
...Since Brexit, the Conservative party has been “doubling down on a shrinking demographic”, its voter base is “diminishing one funeral at a time” as it bets “on the past against the future”....
...Annual income from the TV deal rose over the previous deal, albeit by a measly 4 per cent....
...I also collect crystals, which I buy at Venusrox in Notting Hill. I’ve had to slowly wean myself off them: four visits a week was becoming a bit extreme....
...While the form of crystals in particular has long fascinated master goldsmiths such as Sean Gilson and art-jewel giants Otto Jakob, Etsuko Sonobe and Ara Vartanian (whose home in São Paulo is adorned with...
...When the US Federal Reserve started hiking rates 18 months ago, short-dated yields rose as short-term bond prices fell (these move inversely.)...
...But an attack overnight on the home of the mayor of the Parisian suburb of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, in which unidentified individuals set a car on fire and rammed it through the front gate while his family was sleeping...
...The water is the softest I have ever swum in and completely crystal clear.” Over dinner, talk switches between the property, Tallulah’s childhood and the things that have shaped Amanda’s career....
...In 2021, the regulator intervened to force funeral directors to display standardised price lists and prevent them from soliciting business through places such as care homes....
...Inside are azalea walks and rose bowers. Outside are the fume-hazed roadways of the Bronx....
...In England and Wales, the number of adult children living with their parents rose 14 per cent between 2011 and 2021....
...Harkness Roses have designed their excellent exhibit in the shape of a Union Jack: I wait to see how they have introduced blue, still elusive in roses....
...And the best souvenirs I’ve brought home are from Rajasthan in northern India....
International Edition