Hints and tips:
...Other creatives are exploring paler burrs such as ash to create pieces with fresh appeal....
...“You think it’s a tray full of stubs and ash.”...
...I hesitate to reveal more, though I can tell you that there is a spy subplot and a cameo from the crime writer Dorothy L Sayers....
...On her clay soil she finds the dark ash from bonfires to be a useful conditioner....
...Touring East Anglia, Ross inspects the roof angels of St Peter’s Upwell, the Fenland church on which Dorothy L Sayers drew for her tantalising 1934 mystery novel of bell-ringers and bigamy, The Nine Tailors...
...Prices start at £1,770 for the 12-bottle Tête-à-Tête, rising to £14,300 for the V-Royale-L, a 124-bottle cabinet with adjustable ash shelves, UV protection, filtered air supply, vibration absorption and...
...Soy Organics. kalinko.com Checkered candlesticks by Cahoots, £110 per set of two Handmade in Brighton from sustainably sourced ash and walnut. glassette.com Venus de Milo candle by Officine Universelle...
...The future detective novelist Dorothy L Sayers, as a copywriter in London from 1922 until 1931, created the undying Guinness ad starring a toucan: “If he can say as you can / Guinness is good for you / How...
...sarahk.co.uk Silver ketchup sleeve by Theo Fennell, £1,495 Condiments don’t have to mean a compromise on style. theofennell.com Cartridge salt & pepper grinders by Forwood Design, £165 Made of Japanese Tamo Ash...
...Stokke ash 50th anniversary Tripp Trapp chair, £235, johnlewis.com...
...During the excavation of Pompeii, among the villas and streets that lay intact under the ash from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79CE, a small statue of a female figure was found....
...And the ash is whitewashed because I find paler wood is really nice for seeing tiny objects.”...
...Austria’s ball culture is tied to the fasching (Catholic carnival), a period of festivities that runs from 11 November until Ash Wednesday (22 February)....
...Perriand went on to succeed as a designer and architect in a man’s world: her mantra – “l’art de vivre” (“the art of living”) – born of the belief that good design could transform lives....
...And the exquisite trompe-l’oeil shell “mirrors” and decorative frescoes in the main hotel corridor are the work of François Roux, who restored the ceilings in Louboutin’s Lisbon house....
...Küfer joined Disguise in 2015, having previously worked in financial roles at companies including Lidl, L’Oréal, Ultra Motor and A2B Bikes....
...Finally, aspirant crime writers will relish the tips in Howdunit, edited by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins, £14.99); everyone from Dorothy L Sayers to current crime writers are on hand to inspire those hoping...
...Aged 21, she’d have had an intriguing rivalry with Ash Barty, had the Australian not retired in March....
...In Dorothy L Sayers’ The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), Lord Peter Wimsey recruits a chemist acquaintance of his to test a paint sample for poison....
...Cusk’s L is accompanied not by Frieda but by a young, self-absorbed woman named Brett (when the Lawrences went to Taos in 1925 for the second time they brought with them Dorothy Brett, the naive daughter...
...When Guy Ritchie’s chef was after some wow-factor plates to debut at the director’s birthday dinner, Froggatt introduced him to Bird & Branch Turnery in Battersea, whose ash or walnut dishes are nothing...
...I would advise against the ubiquitous synthetic rattan-effect furniture look — those L-shaped sofas and club chairs that are always so very blocky and inelegant and usually ash grey in colour, with matching...
...Online fashion rival, Boohoo, whose chief executive John Lyttle was once in charge of buying at Arcadia, is likely to acquire Topshop stablemates Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis....
...Others are bringing the garden inside; or using classical devices, such as trompe l’oeil, to define architecture....
...L Sayers’ Unnatural Death and Christie’s Peril at End House for two gripping examples)....
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