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...The stylised concrete bamboos at Las Pozas resemble the “bamboo” drainpipes at James’s home on the West Dean estate, Monkton House, where he replaced Edward Lutyens’s tasteful, Ionic columns with fibreglass...
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...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....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...His experimental, lyrical signature would grace ceramics, gardens, furniture and set designs for choreographers George Balanchine and Martha Graham. But most notable of all was that lampshade....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Modern gardeners enjoy a variety called Graham Thomas, named in honour of the great English plantsman....
...not featured here), interiors, gardens, even cars with Fuller....
...Plant them with about 3in of soil above their tips and then give them 3ft-long bamboo canes to support them. When they are about 1ft high, begin to feed them on liquid phostrogen....
...There was also a V-shaped neck pillow and a sort of snake-like one that reminded me of something I used during the latter stages of pregnancy....
.... maisonsarahlavoine.com Enamel marble trays by Bornn from £20 Available in two sizes, these unusual trays are chic and colourful. notanotherbill.com Outdoor candle sticks by Rose & Grey £8.50 each Bamboo...
...But there are many gardens and parks such as Shinjuku Gyoen, Kokyo (Imperial Palace) Gaien National Garden and Odaiba Seaside Park — to name just a few — that are full of the blessings of nature and make...
...The most refreshing contribution is a new garden at San Giorgio Maggiore, designed by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan for the Caravane Earth Foundation, with a bamboo and wool majlis (an Islamic room for gathering...
...“You have to keep watering the garden, seed every spring and harvest every fall, and notice the jungle is encroaching....
...“In Asian cities you see bamboo scaffolding against a skyscraper, against glass and steel. So this is about those juxtapositions,” she says....
...There are bamboo forests and the green on green everywhere is so beautiful....
...Soil also plays a role in the work of Kazuhito Takadoi, whose fascination with British landscape and gardens originally drew him to the UK to study horticulture at RHS Garden, Wisley, having studied at Japan...
...Mark Radcliffe, 38, became the UK’s first eBay millionaire at 30 after he set up First2save, a mobile phone accessories business from his parents’ garden shed....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...It’s as if the kit examines the unkempt fence around your garden and, if it finds a big enough hole, shoves a bomb through....
...(Masslive.com) Campaign commentary Thank Reagan and Bill Clinton for Trump’s dog whistle ways (Sally Kohn, Time) The media v Trump (Ezra Klein, Vox) Trump may cost the GOP a generation of voters (Michael...
...Social media now sends almost as much traffic to news sites as Google — 36 per cent v 41 per cent. Traffic diversion on this scale poses a dilemma for publishers....
...Meanwhile, in the US, the fabric was sold to more than 200 designers via Greeff Fabrics Inc. Yet it wasn’t always obvious that it was destined for such success....
...Street markets criss-crossing Gage Street and Graham Street in Central, where fruit and veg stalls jostle with fishmongers and butchers, are the best place to find them....
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