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...The range, called Elements by Diane Keaton for S Harris, pulls directly from her life – beginning with the actress’s lifelong muse: her mother, Dorothy Hall....
...For me, The Wolseley has been like that fabled land imagined by yearning Dorothy stuck in grey Kansas, “Some place where there isn’t any trouble . . . ” It feels like the end of that era now....
...If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...The Elmhirsts championed democracy, but while others lived in poorly built cottages on the estate, Dorothy’s collection of modernist art adorned the walls of their wing of the Hall....
...As a designer myself, I often turn to the mantras penned by the long-dead people whose work I admire and take inspiration from: the American decorators Nancy Lancaster and Dorothy Draper, say, or the English...
...In 1806 Beaumont invited Wordsworth to make a winter garden at Hall Farm, Coleorton in Leicestershire. The garden is gone but the long letter survives in which he set out his plans....
...The sheets on the black iron beds are sunflower yellow and in their hall, a fez brought back from Morocco hangs on the wall above a piano covered in straw hats — guests can grab one before piling down to...
...British musicians are reeling from the double blow of coronavirus and Brexit as concert halls remain closed and new visa regimes make the planning of European tours a bureaucratic nightmare....
...Dorothy Gradden leads the project to clear the Sellafield ponds....
...architecture mark the eras of urban sprawl: crowded Victorian terraces give way to gracious suburban villas and the sort of art deco apartment buildings that one can imagine in television adaptations of Dorothy...
...Certainly, the fabrics of Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher merited such treatment....
...Most of the exhibition halls were decorated with tropical plants, often overflowing from long troughs or planters, including Sir Terence Conran’s first manufactured piece of furniture....
...We mostly adore the same stuff: Dorothy Draper, moiré silk, Emilio Terry, shell grottoes, ceramics shaped like fish....
...He was in London on Thursday to rally the troops in a “town hall” address. The verdict? “A bit dull....
...Rebennack recorded steadily over the next three decades, winning six Grammy Awards, as well as admission to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
...dance hall hostess Charity Hope Valentine....
...Chief executive Rhodri Samuel sees a continuation of Dorothy’s focus on “the expression of a many-sided life”, but also a new reality....
...Painted bookshelves heave and spill, while stacks of books on influences, such as the Bloomsbury Group, Cecil Beaton and the American interior designer Dorothy Draper occupy chairs and a geometric marble...
...For musicians, there is nothing quite like Dartington Hall. The word “unique” is overworked, but in this case it probably does apply....
...Together the couple developed Dartington Hall in Devon from a ruined 14th-century Great Hall with 1,200 acres into an institution devoted to the arts, agriculture and progressive education....
...Her father was a famous music-hall star, Stanley Lupino, her mother an actress by the stage name of Connie Emerald. Her godfather was Ivor Novello, the leading show business phenomenon of the age....
...The pub had been in Joe’s wife’s family for 100 years, but sadly Dorothy had passed away before him....
...The other is Dorothy Stone, which has a more metallic white to its petals. They are far removed from the miniature “mums” in a New York tree pit. I see them both through the eyes of a painter in love....
...The less said about Shit-Faced Showtime’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Dorothy’s turn with the sauce bottle) the better, but at least my psyche survived unstained....
...On re-entering my home, a 60-watt lightbulb in the lamp in the hall put me in mind of Phillip Larkin poems about despair....
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