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...Full or partial runs of Self Service, Nest, Egoïste and i-D have realised the highest prices at the cult London bookshop Idea....
...“You’d think after all this time, they’d have come up with something more interesting than smoked salmon,” King imagines his fictional critic carping....
...I went on my own, hoping I’d be taken into some kind of cult.” On Strickland’s first visit, he saw David Lynch’s disturbing feature debut Eraserhead (1977)....
...During my residency, the Prado’s one Caravaggio was being restored: a depiction of David with the head of Goliath from 1600, in which David looms largest, his knee resting on a felled Goliath as he grabs...
...I wish we’d had the magic carpet to float us from the cool, damp roadside to sunnier, warmer San Luis Potosí state....
...The last time they had met was 1998, thinks Cox, with Elton and David. What was that like? “Nothing untoward.”...
...She launched the men’s in 2017, with Talking Heads’ David Byrne as a reference, and now sales of the two are equal....
...“You just write a text of what you’d like to see,” Blokhin says (£30,000 each)....
...“I like David Cronenberg movies, anyway.” His smile widened behind the vapour clouding his face. “If it’s anything like a David Cronenberg movie,” he replied, “we might both be squeamish.”...
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...Six months later, on her birthday, Mugrabi received an email asking if she’d consider “taking over and funding the programme, because they were going to cut it” (V&A simply says that the programme was “on...
...Puzzle 2481 Fabiano Caruana v Gukesh D, USA v India, Chennai 2022. Black to move and win. How did the 16-year-old defeat the former world No 2? Click here for solution...
...Former Conservative prime ministers Liz Truss and David Cameron were among the first to send their congratulations to Rishi Sunak after Tory MPs backed the former chancellor to become the country’s first...
...“I’d booked some modelling jobs before college. It was fun being in the city so I went back to study acting....
...“We’d sit there battering away on things like the export of seed potatoes and plants for garden centres.”...
...The previous night she saw John Adams’s modern opera Nixon in China, but I have been dying to ask her whether it is true that she is a David Bowie fan. It is....
...You can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...(When I asked if he’d tried bog-snorkelling he told me he had “negative buoyancy”.)...
...“You know when they did that [David] Bowie show at the V&A? For a long time I’ve thought, Pam could do that,” says Lucas. “So in a way, this is a small step towards Pam’s big retrospective.”...
...The expansive social network of David Geovanis, a former banker he had known since Drexel, helped....
...Just a few years later, he moved back to New York to take charge of the office there, succeeding the imposing André Meyer. In his 25-year run, David-Weill made crucial strategic decisions....
...Then she’d interrupt again.” By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...“I’d suggest stopping by Nir Altman,” she advises, of her recommendations for the upcoming Frieze London. “I love the works and immersive experiences they create. And David Zwirner.”...
...First of all, because like, “Just say yes” is totally like a Nancy Meyers movie, like waiting to happen, like romantic comedy....
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