Hints and tips:
...Until then, I’d had no idea how to break into design. I entered a new, world of sharp chic decorating with subtle palettes mixed with Perspex furniture, or dhurrie rugs. It was exciting.”...
...If you’d prefer to go for the simpler option, there are plenty of curtains out there....
...“I’d never handed over the business to anyone before who operated at that kind of trust level,” she says. “I don’t think there has been a time where we don’t agree.”...
...“I talked to one nice Australian visitor who joked, ‘I thought I’d just check that the whole place hadn’t been stolen,’” Beard says. It was a painful jest....
...“Only at Remy’s could you find a hornet’s nest casually draped over a mirror above the fireplace,” says the artist Angelica Hicks of the idiosyncratic interior of his former apartment in New York, the city...
...“If I were a policymaker, I’d be nervous that the credit distress channel isn’t nearly as powerful [as was first predicted],” he says, especially in light of the sheer strength of the labour market....
...This is the route I went down when I commissioned Beaudesert to make my own bed a few years ago, inspired by David Hicks....
...The first show will be of new work by 88-year old textile artist Sheila Hicks. This will be followed by an exhibition of late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe....
...I love the story about my all-time hero, David Hicks, installing a room. It being May, he arranged Lily of the Valley in a pretty jug....
...When he reappeared last year behind the presenter’s desk of his new Apple TV series, The Problem with Jon Stewart, he acknowledged the length of time he’d been away....
...30s, it’s been a hub for artists and writers including Balthus, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and today residents include the Giacometti Foundation and the great American textile artist Sheila Hicks...
...Fortescue Metals Group, one of Australia’s largest mining companies, has appointed Fiona Hick as its new chief executive after poaching the Woodside veteran to run the business....
...An exhibition of the artist’s work opens at London’d National Theatre in January. Whoever’s in the frame, smooth the path with questions, Howgate advises....
...What has been missing from the Benin Bronzes discussion, hindering a true understanding of the complex global situation, is some of that knowledge Hicks refers to....
...One friend was surprised to find a “completion” sum buried in the contract’s small print: “We’d paid a fee upfront for the drawings and building work....
...I would like to mention one final thing though: while clean lines can still work very well in the country, I’d avoid too many chilly materials....
...“Trevor had done some architectural work for him, and I’d created printed textiles,” recalls Joan, as Adrian excitedly points out one of his mother’s designs on a cushion, “printed for Heal’s in 1947”....
...“I created my own family home, somewhere I’d be happy to spend time alone and where the children could come with me, and with their friends.”...
...Look to decorators from the past such as David Hicks and Madeleine Castaing for inspiration....
...“For people [at independent production companies] trying to raise investment in the future, that’d make it really difficult....
...Grime veteran D Double E appears on “For the Culture”, during which Sons of Kemet make the gleefully anarchic racket of a Balkan brass band at a Jamaican dancehall....
...The album also sees collaborations with artists including Kojey Radical, Lianne La Havas and grime MC D Double E....
...I’d love to put down some rugs, or even fit a new patterned carpet. Any thoughts? Choosing the right rug is tricky....
...I remember thinking, I’d like to have my own gallery one day.”...
...Similar, from £420 And on my wishlist is a four-poster bed à la Veere Grenney or David Hicks, one that is really tall, with curtains. I’d also love some diamonds....
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