Hints and tips:
...Bridget Riley is sitting in the vast and vaulted hallway of the British School at Rome, dressed in a white cotton top and loose linen trousers....
...There are restoration workshops where you can peer in on paintings and sculptures being cleaned with cotton buds by people in white coats (which visitors are also supposed to wear while wandering the archives...
...It’s a panoply of curving corners, streamlined shops and stepped cotton-candy neon....
...Simon was the son of a cotton merchant and studied the textile mills in Bradford, northern England, before returning to Berlin to build a huge business....
...It’s being overseen by Edwin Bodson, Chung’s 31-year-old managing director, who joined the company in April 2016 from Haider Ackermann in Antwerp....
...The first structure that brought him attention was a series of cotton-covered tents at a garden show in Kassel: it was their relationship to landscape and plants that was particularly admired....
...It seems mostly to reveal conservators patiently prodding paintings with cotton buds....
...The city of words and fading signs that surrounds the site of the new Whitney Museum is meaty, writes Edwin Heathcote....
...Professor Sir Edwin Southern waves and makes his way up the muddy track....
...Winder recreates the mood of 1934, while providing a sort of triple biography of cricketer Hedley Verity, tennis player Fred Perry and golfer Henry Cotton....
...Ours is vast, with a 7ft-square “emperor-size” bed, swathed in Egyptian cotton sheets and duck-down duvet....
...www.themoderninstitute.com … Edwin Heathcote, architecture critic ‘Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects’, Saatchi Gallery, London, May 10-13 Sitting intriguingly between the worlds...
...Technically chino is a fabric – classically 100 per cent cotton twill, which is woven to have small diagonal ridges. But the name “chino” is now applied to virtually any casual trouser....
...Customers are saying: ‘You, Marks and Spencer’s, you take the lead [on sustainable cotton or fish, for example]. “We don’t need to know about that. Don’t give us too many difficult choices’.”...
...Edwin and Lavenham ‘lifesaver’ gilet For summer nights. £260, The Edwin Store London (from July), 47-49 Charlotte Rd, www.edwin-europe.com 4....
...Not to mention cotton, which is the most water- and agrichemical-intensive crop on the planet....
...This left a core inhabited by the now welfare-dependent black population, who could no longer find work in a car industry that had drawn their grandparents from the cotton fields of the south....
...Edwin Heathcote, FT architecture critic …………………………………………………………….....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic....
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