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...Cuts of wood – among them olive, amaranth and some fossilised varieties – have also been building blocks of the house’s jewels....
...In the left-hand panel, Joseph (we think it is him) crouches over a meagre fire, drying the nappies....
...The current Duke has built on his mother’s legacy, continuing to commission makers — including ceramic artists Edmund de Waal and Jacob van der Beugel, and furniture maker Joseph Walsh....
...There’ll be exhibitions too, the first featuring work by Axel Salto and Edmund de Waal....
...Like Mai, he glided through the upper echelons of society, befriending figures such as Samuel Johnson, the statesman Edmund Burke and the actor David Garrick....
...curve was paired with Enignum II Locus chairs, overlooked by a gigantic ribbon-like sculpture....
...Stanley Stewart Pata Lodge, Patagonia, Chile You arrive through enchanted woods....
...The show, titled Avatar II, took up all four floors of the grand gallery on Grafton Street, and was opening that evening....
...The marquetry of a table chiffonier, “dizzyingly thin slithers” of seasoned wood on which the luxury cabinet maker constructs “an arpeggio”, is “a way of making one thing look entirely other”....
...Linda Yueh, fellow in economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and adjunct professor of economics at London Business School: The UK is a more open economy, so it is more affected by global energy...
...In the 18th century, Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II pioneered an influential rationalist fusion of Enlightenment rule and centralised governance....
...Tip’ O’Neill, US congressman (Massachusetts), majority leader of the House of Representatives, Washington, DC, May 6 1976; Peter Rodino, US congressman (New Jersey), New York, July 14 1976 Second row: Joseph...
...The outcry over “red rubber” was also stoked by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, with its phantasmagoric depictions of the horrors of colonial rule....
...Only three pieces made by the internees — two chairs and a lamp stand — remain at the Grade II*-listed 78 Derngate, which displays replicas of other items....
...Joseph Cotterill, the FT's southern Africa correspondent, imagines how Brexit Britain would be covered if it were in his region....
...Hotel Ukraina was commissioned by Joseph Stalin. Why With 32 floors, when it opened in 1957 it was the tallest hotel in the world....
...The 5,000 acres of grounds include landscaped gardens and two native Irish oak woods....
...In Richard II, gardens need constant attention, and denied this they will quickly lapse into unruliness....
...Also at Maastricht, Daniel Katz is showing a carved and gilt wood, rococo extravaganza for £1.5m....
...Included in those sales was a six-acre, oceanfront property bought by hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II for $71.2m in July, the highest price paid for a home in Palm Beach last year....
...At the ICA his championship of Joseph Beuys’ radical vision inspired a generation of British artists....
...We don’t think it is as case of not being out of the woods yet, so much as not really having entered the woods yet....
...Is Turkey out of the woods? Not quite of course. There are still two major issues....
...Proms first night The BBC’s 120th Henry Wood Proms season of 92 concerts opens at London’s Royal Albert Hall with Edward Elgar’s oratorio “The Kingdom” (to September 13)....
...He was a former merchant seaman-craftsman working the east Asian routes: a Joseph Conrad man. His union was a Protestant bulwark of empire, sadly rotting....
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