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...Baker Tilly secured a $1bn investment led by H&F in February. Buyers are spotting an opportunity that has played out inside their own industry....
...Only 31 now, his culinary career began when he started apprenticing with the local baker at 13....
...In 1925, Loos met the dancer and civil-rights activist Josephine Baker in Paris. He designed a house for her and, although unbuilt, it is one of the most enigmatic Modernist dreams....
...Commissioned by Edwin Lascelles in 1767, Chippendale managed the furnishing and decoration of the newly-built house, amassing one of the most significant collections of his furniture....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic Photographs: Robert Stainforth/Alamy; Richard Baker/Corbis/Getty Images; Forbes Massey; Heatherwick Studio; Charles Bowman/Getty Images; Harrison/Topical...
...But the bottom three floors of this Edwin Lutyens building are being transformed into a members’ club with smart hotel decor, a restaurant and a chance for people to sip wines at lower-than-restaurant prices...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic Photograph: Dennis Gilbert...
...In New Delhi – the subject of the penultimate chapter – Lord Curzon, Herbert Baker, Edwin Lutyens and others strove to erect the grandest imperial city that would ever exist, but were overtaken by events...
...Edwin Truman, of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, said Congress’s baulking “had done substantial actual damage to the US reputation around the world”....
...He shows how the academic competence of Reginald Blomfield’s Menin Gate is topped by Edwin Lutyens’s sublime Thiepval Arch, making a strong case too for the emotional impact of Herbert Baker’s Tyne Cot Memorial...
...Edwin Heathcote ——————————————- CLASSICAL Piano Man: A Life of John Ogdon, by Charles Beauclerk, Simon & Schuster, RRP£20/$29.99 Ogdon was one of the most gifted pianists of modern times but, after scaling...
...Baker also worked with Edwin Lutyens on the layout of New Delhi....
...Why The Loggia is a Grade II-listed conversion of Nashdom Abbey, which was originally designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) for Russian royalty....
...Selections by Barry Forshaw … SCIENCE FICTION Terminus , by Adam Baker, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£7.99 The third in Baker’s series of viscerally claustrophobic end-of-the-world novels has Manhattan destroyed...
...The bakers and butchers, jewellery stores and design shops, patisseries, cafés and toy shops, each had a more seductive and sparkling window display than its neighbour....
...Over the thundering Euston Road, one of the arterial routes through London, and into Bloomsbury where an early 20th-century garden by Sir Edwin Lutyens can be found behind the mellow red brick and Portland...
...SCIENCE FICTION Juggernaut, by Adam Baker, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£12.99, 403 pages The zombies in Baker’s blood-curdling thriller are ghastly hybrids of rotting flesh and alien nanotech....
...SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY Juggernaut , by Adam Baker, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£6.99 In a year crowded with zombie fiction, Baker’s second novel stands out....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic...
...“In my memory such an idea was mentioned a long time ago by Jim Baker when he was a [US] secretary of the Treasury in the 1980s. I have no particular comment.”...
...portraiture from its origins in the Dutch Republic in the 17th century to its heyday in Georgian and Victorian England and will feature notable works by Johann Zoffany, William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Edwin...
...At the same time, town centres continue to founder without the subsidies given to local retailers in, say France, where the butcher and baker are sacrosanct....
...Its architect, Edwin Lutyens, was less than 20 years older than Le Corbusier and began in a not dissimilar milieu, building artsy craftsy houses for the well-heeled – Le Corbusier in Switzerland, Lutyens...
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...He cites a Booths-inspired project that will enable Staff of Life, a craft bakery for the Kendal store, to license a fellow baker to supply breads made to Staff’s recipes to stores elsewhere....
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