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...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...Honing turns ChatGPT into a machine that has the confidence to go long Microsoft after seeing this tweet . . . https://twitter.com/business/status/1615707566268375041 ... and will short Bed Bath & Beyond...
...The biggest transformation has taken place upstairs: what was once a three-bedroom, two-bathroom layout is now a four-bed, four-bath space. “Reconfiguring it was a huge challenge,” Thornley recalls....
...With Stéphane Verger, director of the Museo Nazionale Romano (of which the baths are a part), I sneaked into the Great Halls, due to reopen in January for the first time in 50 years after a major renovation...
...Lying in this stately room, with its overmantel and fancy carvings, I can easily imagine myself as a Jacobean châtelaine, albeit one with electric bed lights, high-speed WiFi and a bath....
...The sober hall near the Bank of England, with its black-and-white-chequered marble floor and its dark wood counters now has the air of ancient Rome after the sack, with City workers baying for cocktails....
...The last exhibition of their work was housed in another of their creations, the cavernous Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London....
...Due to a loft’s shape, it can make sense to spend time horizontally underneath its beams; beds will fit snugly under beams, and so will a bath....
...“I wanted it to feel like one of those grand, possibly Italian houses,” she says of the space that has patterned pink marble around the bath and two different fabrics on the walls — a mossy velvet, which...
...Kitchen cabinetry in hand-polished brass; an original Warhol Flowers silkscreen above a bed....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...No hideous grey flooring and ugly, unsuitable windows here, instead horse enclosures are left in place, creating very clever natural dividers between areas: a bed and a bath, the dining space and a spot...
...In one corner stood a pedestal table and two armchairs; in another a buttoned day-bed....
...Even closer to your bed is Hawkyns, the Crown’s excellent in-house restaurant by chef Atul Kochhar, which offers pan-Indian cuisine with Modern British touches....
...The man behind the meme stock The FT’s Antoine Gara and Madison Darbyshire profile Jake Freeman, whose $110mn gain on Bed Bath & Beyond stock launched him into fame last week....
...“aerobes” floating through Tate Modern in Anicka Yi’s Turbine Hall commission “In Love with the World”....
...Home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond is also reporting today before the bell....
...Mine had a big comfy bed with soft sheets and floor-to-ceiling windows, which you can cover with giant curtains run by an electric switch if you’re worried about people seeing in....
...The room called the “old hall” is not grand and barely a hall. Rather it is a simple space with a window seat, a big fireplace and some hangings — some of Morris’s earliest designs....
...in the 1960s) and, best of all, an all-singing, all-dancing padded iPad that allows you to control your entire in-room experience without leaving your bed....
...This year a three-bedroom semi-detached house sold for £495,000; a four-bed detached home for £1.3m....
...In the grand hall a fire crackles, guests are having tea....
...Neither did I troop along to the 1974 game-changing exhibition at the V&A, “The Destruction of the English Country House”, at which the images went on show of more than a thousand country houses, castles...
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