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...With a DJ booth and comfy sofas it is designed to be used by a broader audience than many cultural buildings but it also feels like a faint echo, a nostalgia for a different time when the warehouses and...
...Manhunt, a new seven-part series on Apple TV+, tells the story of Booth’s escape and the operation to catch him led by Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s war secretary....
...Even Wetherspoons, the UK’s cheap-beer-and-raucous-carpet pub chain, employs vintage books in its booths....
...They feature a panoply of design devices, tricks and modes, from sophisticated trompe-l’oeil effects to dazzling, geometric marble inlays and lively mosaics, sculptural panels, space-age lighting sconces...
...Designed to accommodate anything from lavish musicals to community theatre, intimate gigs to Shakespeare, the cube contains three theatres arranged in an L-shape with dozens of permutations of stage arrangement...
...And in Berlin, Chinese artist Xiyao Wang’s paintings visualise dance as flurries of line and colour; her solo booth with MassimodeCarlo gallery at Frieze London last year was titled En l’Air, referencing...
...Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), in an essay published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society in 1859, laid out how competition could be introduced in the private provision of water....
...Those textural, trompe-l’œil effects interrupt the slickness of photorealism. “These visual cues of entropy are a demarcation of time, or real life,” the artist says....
...Website; Directions— Tim Auld L’Atelier Robuchon 6 Clarges Street, London W1J 8AE A particular joy in Paris is to sit at the counter of L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, watching in...
...Over a six-year renovation, the mansion at 1 Sloane Place was completely overhauled (though the Edwin Thomas Hall-designed building’s façade remains unchanged); a sixth floor, complete with cupola, was added...
...‘On the Street: In Between Architecture’ by Edwin Heathcote is published by HENI...
...Among his highlights for next week are Design Miami, which opens its first edition in the French capital (October 18-22, L’hôtel de Maisons)....
...We’re leaning no, but you definitely won’t catch him behind a DJ booth anytime soon. Will the Carlyle Group still be independent?...
...So, instead, they are given the illusion — with the facility to swap furniture around, to customise their workspace with photos and gewgaws, or move around to booths or breakout spaces and pseudo cafés —...
...It was less than full but dark and sumptuous, just the right amount of give in the lushly upholstered booths. My bedroom was, oddly, a little less private....
...Back in force at the Nangang Exhibition Center for the first time since before the pandemic took its toll, the fair’s 90 booths had a young crowd....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...The Liberal party, with a large L, the centre-right party, was seen as having swung too far to the right by a lot of its supporters after my defenestration....
...The event will now be in the 18th-century L’hôtel de Maisons, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés....
...“We went to see what was called ‘the Sistine Chapel of Impressionism’,” says Riley of the Musée de l'Orangerie....
...According to L’Equipe, PSG ditched plans for a US tour after being offered €20mn to divert to Japan instead....
...Sound-proof Office Phone-Booth-Box The FT’s own Edwin Heathcote once said this of one of the 20th century’s most iconic structures: “The phone box is a very curious piece of architecture....
...The museum’s form is effectively an L-shape with a low-slung, marble-clad gallery of contemporary art placed on top, which, with its diaphanous veneer, is intended to glow like a paper lantern from dusk....
...These house that complex network of private rooms, bars and booths, a nest of spaces culminating in a rooftop bar and a kind of oddly attractive 1970s winter garden....
...The sons all trade on Junius Booth’s name, but the handsome and soulful Edwin becomes famous in his own right....
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