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...The first is Edward James’s Surrealist plot Las Pozas (The Pools), a patch of picturesque insanity a seven or eight-hour drive north of Mexico City....
...At FT Globetrotter, we are particularly excited about the Pompidou Centre’s big Brâncuși show in March, the opening of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s Paris bolt-hole, Villa Windsor, in the summer and,...
...It’s sculptural and radical, and we’re excited to show how well it fits into this uniquely Parisian decor.”...
...It was probably only a matter of time before Touriste – the independent collection of Paris hotels that has already worked with Chloé Nègre, Dorothée Meilichzon and FT Weekend contributor Luke Edward Hall...
...In 1827, quite late in the day, Parisians set eyes on a giraffe, a gift from the ruler of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, to Charles X....
...Clients such as Marcel Proust, Winston Churchill, Edward VIII, Charles Baudelaire and, later, Coco Chanel, flocked to Place Vendôme....
...They made some buzz in 2021 with their Hôtel Les Deux Gares, whose interiors were designed by FT Weekend columnist Luke Edward Hall....
...Such bulk lots included fans used by companies in the 1920s to advertise their parties (some of which were scrawled on by famous attendees such as Edward VIII and Coco Chanel)....
...Inside, there is a terribly chic Parisian apartment — belonging to Paloma Picasso, its salon a hazy blur of ice-blue silk, white fluffy carpet, pale panelling and chrome — but there is also a camper-van...
...Curzon’s predilection for pomp was legendary, and it culminated in the 1903 Delhi Durbar to mark the accession of Edward VII as emperor of India....
...See, for example, offers from Chapoutier and Luis Felipe Edwards (LFE)....
...International buyers have been helping fill the gap created by space-seeking Parisians leaving the city centre for the suburbs or other cities in France....
...Little did Oudéa know that the more he doubled down on SocGen’s Rosbank subsidiary, the more he sealed his fate as the Parisian lender’s former boss....
...Edward Sexton, Richard James, Huntsman, Hermès, Husbands Paris and Ralph Lauren are just a few....
...I sourced my own — I found a scrap of Manuel Canovas cotton on eBay, printed with a trellis pattern and Parisian scenes including a fine view of the Panthéon....
...Noted physicist Edward Teller voiced similar sentiments in 1959, as did researchers from Stanford in 1968....
...The villa’s interior was designed by the Parisian decorator Madeleine Castaing: its bathroom features tiles painted with flowers in shades of pink and yellow and a painted sink to match....
...Her pieces have been stocked by Parisian retailer White Bird since 2010 and have been joined by other designs....
...Its products are sold everywhere from family footwear chains to Parisian boutiques....
...I have used a striking Balineum black-and-white Greek key design in the interiors of a Parisian hotel I am working on: the tiles will sit in a single line on the walls of the bathrooms above plain, brightly...
...(See pictures of French interior decorator Madeleine Castaing’s Parisian shop — a laundry she converted in 1941 and presided over well into the 1990s.)...
...Lighting is a trademark, particularly 1960s Parisian Holophane streetlights revamped for domestic use....
...I am an unequivocal fan of Luke Edward Hall, his interior design column, and his Instagram. Read this newest edition, The perils of upcycling, before you try to upholster your sofa in quarantine....
...Parisians moving to Bordeaux were blamed for pushing up property prices when a high-speed train line opened in 2017. Signs popped up reading: “Parisien, rentre chez toi” — Parisian, go home....
...Tony Blair learned passable French working in a Parisian bar and took his holidays in the Tuscan hills. He was from a generation that had none of Thatcher’s hangups about German hegemony....
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