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.... £90 for 100ml, doverstreetmarket.com Buly 1803 Eau Triple Sumi Hinoki Favoured by celebrated fire chef Francis Mallmann, this perfume is inspired by the smell of Kyoto’s charred wood houses....
...The waiting staff notice Francis Spufford before I do. Not for his three-decade-long career as a writer. No, not that. It’s his headgear....
...There is something both dreamy, reminiscent of Marc Chagall, and menacing, more like Francis Bacon. For Castelli, inspiration often starts not with art, but with a book....
...But, as far as the IMF was concerned, the US political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s promised end of history never arrived....
...Materials span from wood and clay to textiles, metal and glass....
...The new look is contemporary-cosy: colourful shabby-chic linens and natural woods in the common areas, spare style in the 30 rooms and suites....
...Financial markets closed Senegal: presidential election Vatican City: Pope Francis attends a Palm Sunday service in St Peter’s Square...
...Wood did not....
...The motion calling on the company to join the OGMP at this year’s annual meeting, proposed by the Sisters of St Francis, was defeated....
...Whereas the big perfumes of the 1980s often overdosed on big florals, these new perfumes have a sleeker feel; the woods and spices impress themselves firmly but gently....
...If he is right, we’re not out of the woods — because we haven’t tackled the biggest cause: since the 1970s, wealth has been funnelled from the poor to the rich....
...They have not left the woods. “It’s felt like a real opportunity to go away but not feel forced to do stuff, to actually switch off and rest,” Hudson Francis says....
...An early work by Francis Bacon, made when he was still a decorator in the 1920s, shows an eerie combination of ghostly figures and columns....
...It was one of the ever-popular soulangeanas, which produce large tulip-shaped, white to pink flowers on bare wood in early spring....
...Pope Francis, an Argentine Jesuit, soon established a reputation as a comparative liberal. If Benedict lived by the letter of Church law, Francis lives by its spirit....
...Post exertion, stop by Moguls Alpine Bar for festive drinks and wood-fired pizzas. £14.50 for adults, £12.50 for children, £47 for families, bathonice.co.uk Christmas at the Eden Project, Cornwall Journey...
...I’m now looking forward to the audiobook of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood — a thriller with a climactic twist....
...A brilliant vitrine sets grotesque masks of varying sorts and dates against a small reproduction of Francis Bacon’s “Study for the Head of Lucian Freud”, its contorted features mirroring the more ancient...
...The space has been rethought by London-based architect Alex Cochrane, with plaster roundels of artists Louis-François Roubiliac, Hans Holbein the Younger and Francis Leggatt Chantrey overlooking the wares...
...Amanda helped mastermind the wood panelling in the main hall, which was “cobbled together” from bits of oak they salvaged from the stables....
...The process of preserve-charring wood is known as yakisugi and is linked to wabi-sabi and the beauty of imperfection....
...Dendrochronology tests on samples of the wood dated the ship to between 1558 and 1580, spanning the period when Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe in the Golden Hind and international maritime trade...
...Deakin & Francis has used this emblem for one of its eight designs for sterling silver commemorative cufflinks....
...London is simultaneously home to a network of piece workers in the garment industry and to the Francis Crick institute, with 1,250 scientists, one of Europe’s largest biomedical research centres....
...’s heavy steel latticework doors, allowing glimpses of the Grand Canal flowing past, Cattelan’s pope here is a fragile, tragic figure, trapped in suffering, symbol of a life being swept away, closer to Francis...
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