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...Who outside central Europe knows the first world war battles of Przemyśl, Lemberg (now L’viv) or the dozen or so on the Isonzo river?...
...June 21; further information here Event Reopening of Villa Windsor The former home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is due to open to the public as a museum in summer 2024....
...God knows a langoustine is worth, if not a whole king’s ransom, then at least a minor duke’s. And by happy coincidence, the best langos in the world are widely accepted to come from Scotland....
...quickly became popular with the well-heeled and famous, including Hollywood stars and royalty, from Laurence Olivier and John Wayne to future British king Edward, Prince of Wales, and his brother George, the Duke...
...Logan Roy, SuccessionMétier leather Vagabond duffle bag, £2,950 Kendall Roy, Succession Rimowa aluminium Check-In L, £1,290 Tanya, The White Lotus Globe-Trotter fibreboard Carry-On, £2,245 Jack Ryan,...
...The surviving Grade I-listed building dates from the early 19th century and has a trompe l’oeil medieval appearance with a central tower....
...Denise L Ramos, a director on its sustainability committee, has a surprising side gig: chair of the public policy and sustainability committee at Texan oil refiner Phillips 66....
...Pick the reference you saw within: David Bowie’s Thin White Duke? The icy perfection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s ’80s society portraiture?...
...“Il va faire très chaud,” they shouted, launching into “Voilà l’été”, twin trombones pumping, accordion blaring, Stéfane Méllino’s guitar thrashing....
...A mahogany-lined screening room was also added on the uppermost level, while exterior walls were painted with period-specific hues from British company M&L Paints....
...She cites Swangrove — a hunting lodge Kime designed for the Duke of Beaufort — as an example of that....
...Dall-E is spelled D-A-L-L dash E. It’s a portmanteau of Wall-E, the Pixar robot, and Salvador Dali. And this software is part of a new trend in digital technology called AI-generated art....
...: The History and Significance of Fair Play by Jonathan Duke-Evans (Oxford University Press)Delicate, thoughtful analysis of the relationship between fair play and British national identity....
...Luis Martinez Montes Château de Chantilly, near Paris About an hour’s drive north of Paris will bring you to the Château de Chantilly, former-home of Henri d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale and the son of the...
...Saks Fifth Avenue in New York reopened in 2019 after a major renovation, its new restaurant banked on established names from fashion and style: a Philippe Starck-designed outpost of the Parisian hotspot L’...
...Conran cool in Marrakech When Jasper Conran opened L’Hôtel Marrakech, his peerlessly stylish Marrakech riad, it was to great fanfare....
...Handmade and unlined, B&L’s loafers — with their deep vamps and low soles — are elegant in the extreme....
...He was not alone in his pharaonic funerary ambitions, though few went as far as the 10th Duke of Hamilton, a few years later....
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...—David L, finance, London, UK Dukes Bar is said to have inspired Ian Fleming for James Bond’s signature martini....
...cascading wig; Jacob Huysmans’ “Coke Children”, a family in fancy costumes and headdresses placed in a tableau around a mad, lactating statue symbolising fertility; an unknown artist’s 1690 cut-out trompe l’...
...“I’ve always been fascinated by the De Gournay world,” says Moralioglu, from the brand’s sumptuous headquarters, surrounded by its panoramic 19th-century L’Eden design....
...There’s a new appointment for The Doctor, Robert Icke’s revelatory Schnitzler adaptation starring Juliet Stevenson (Duke of York’s, London, from April 20)....
...My style icon is the late David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, who was godfather to the mother of my children....
...westernised mangling of the poetic Persian shirushakar came into style-aware wardrobes from India during the jazz age (it was popular with Gatsby-era Ivy Leaguers, Palm Beachers and — inevitably — the Duke...
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