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...The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure, a collection of her awestruck essays, some written for the London Review of Books, about animals including hares, pangolins and seahorses, is published in October...
...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...The best new tower on the site is not One World Trade Center, the tallest tower and the one that tried hardest to be interesting, but Fumihiko Maki’s reflective and unassuming 4 World Trade Center....
...Although I am happy to take his recommendation, Collardi insists we try a couple of different whites before choosing. The waiter fetches us two locals: a Chardonnay and a Muscat....
...“They were living in the atomic age, this new Americana-driven world. Anything was on the table.” This hyper-techno-optimism consumes Luckey’s personal life too....
...There are three bedrooms, a Great Hall and the usual accoutrements of luxury living, from dressing rooms to an oversupply of WCs....
...“In the graphic design faculty of the Kunstgewerbeschule (applied arts school), the teachers and students were wearing white lab coats.”...
...Curator Abbey Chamberlain Brach recommends viewing between 4pm and 5pm, when “that wonderful sunset golden light washes over the living room”, illuminating the metallic shimmer that Wright embedded into...
...It confirms his unique status: no other living painter has created enough beloved, defining images to sustain such a performance....
...He always made space for me whenever I asked – anything from ‘What do I do while I’m living in London for eight months?’ to ‘How do I close the loop on this song?’....
...All I can remember from that school year — I think I was 10 and living in Ontario — are the maps and a poem....
...He’s now living in a quiet neighborhood in Marbella, on the southern coast of Spain. The streets are lined with white imperial-style villas, and at this hour, they’re empty....
...Some are dead, some living; all are eminent art-world names....
...It was a golden ticket for a golden summer with an incredible human and an incredible woman....
...It’s red, white and blue and says “Fuck Biden”....
...Similarly, a white shirt was reinvented with a pattern created using a complicated debossing technique on pleats developed by Cooke....
...Tycoons hired Rivera to paint anti-capitalist murals at Rockefeller Center, then took offence and had them removed....
...“For the fact is that the only way to pass these barriers is to show a white skin.”...
...The location she chose in 2013 is suitably grand: a listed 19th-century Haussmann townhouse ensconced in the golden triangle between avenues Champs-Elysées, George V and Montaigne....
...In Berlin, his carriage was drawn by six white horses, followed by a cavalcade of 30 carriages. In Lyme Regis, he played at the town’s Assembly Rooms in 1840. It didn’t go well....
...This illegal wildlife trade — worth up to $30bn a year — also threatens and marginalises the people living alongside endangered animals....
...This is going to be an American-run company, with our general manager living in Los Angeles.”...
...The idea of living in a hotel is somehow simultaneously titillating and nauseating....
...Montgomery County, where Dayton lies, had the most overdose deaths in the US in 2017....
...Luke answers readers’ questions on design and stylish living every fortnight....
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