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...John Berger, who eulogised the lifestyle of subsistence farmers in the French Pyrenees in 1979’s Pig Earth, would have appreciated the rhythms of village life as it still was in the early 2000s: the set-in-stone...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...When the bear was relocated to the town park, there was a celebration for “the return of the bear”. For all the new activities in the town — bog triathlon, anyone?...
...“He gets enormous pleasure out of gardening. He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...“I still miss London life — especially the V&A — but the village has been tremendously welcoming,” says Frances, 76, who prefers not to give her full name....
...2nd Avenue Deli, New York Abe Lebewohl founded the 2nd Avenue Deli in 1954 on a corner of the East Village....
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
...In Somerset, he stayed in the village of Norton St Philip with some farm labourers. “They weren’t particularly nice to me,” he says....
...Added to this, the “East Bank” development now under construction will bring outposts of the V&A, Sadler's Wells, the London College of Fashion and University College within a stone’s throw of the sky gardens...
...The neighbourhood’s appeal is in the “combination of village life coupled with easy access into central London”, says Ashley Wilsdon at Middleton Advisors....
...There’s also a stone basement with a wine cellar, an outdoor pool and an eight-car underground car park....
...Running the length of this 1,350-acre focal point will be a green space inspired by New York’s Central Park....
...The clock was the talk of last year’s Masterpiece, and is now owned by the V&A. How does this diffident, shy character work such magic?...
...of Urbia, at the heart of the Aizkorri-Aratz natural park....
...In addition to its UK property portfolio, Stone Company also bought a nine-storey office block at Avenue George V in Paris for $160m in 2007....
...The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone, Bantam Press, RRP£18.99/Little, Brown, RRP$28 Stone entertainingly maps Bezos’s life and personality on to the company he built, showing...
.... £700,000 A six-bedroom villa in the Balinese village of Canggu, in the south of the island. The villa is surrounded by tropical jungle and green-belt paddy fields....
...Between Kew and Hampton the Thames meanders through a unique landscape of parks, palaces and working communities....
...In Golders Hill Park and on the Heath you could catch the cultured end of the Jewish immigration of the 1930s – from Berlin and Vienna – reading poetry on the benches....
...Stone walls do not a museum make: great art does. Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s visual art critic. Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
...Turn right along the busy road, then right again into Park Lane, up a gravel track and through a V-shaped stile....
...rise from Hawaii to Harvard to the Illinois state legislature and, finally, the White House....
...Instead of Ravel’s “Bolero”, get ready to hear a lot of Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere” and Linkin Park’s “Crawling”....
...The rangers that ran this whole thing would accompany me and we’d stop at their village. In the 1970s, 30 miles outside of the cities you’d be back in the stone age....
...The architecture was subtractive, the way in which Michelangelo revealed an essence within a block of stone....
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