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...The house, her grandmother and the Venetian surroundings have inspired Coco’s brand d’AddA, a clothing and accessories line....
...They’d recreated her desk with a copy of French Style by Suzanne Slesin and Stafford Cliff: I ordered a copy and it was there when I got home....
...Current highlights include a 1946 issue featuring work by Erwin Blumenfeld, Cecil Beaton, Lee Miller and Horst, available for £224....
...of Fiat Industrial SpA – but her home emanates a sense of her formidable character, with Cecil Beaton portraits and Capote Black and White Ball snapshots attesting to her social power....
...“If I were in HMRC, I’d be arguing these payments [by the Post Office] are not deductible,” she added. However, other tax experts said the matter was not clear-cut....
...Two months after contracting Covid-19 in August 2021, Heather Marti, a university programme administrator from West Virginia, began to experience a terrifying array of symptoms that have changed her life...
...In the book, friend Heather Ashton recalls how she’d unhook a slip dress and wear it on the hips so that it would drag along the ground, paired with a baby-T or bodysuit....
...The patchwork of different heathers can also provide fodder for various birds. Grouse butts for driven shooting peek out of the heather at Abercairny; I’m told they are seldom used....
...Owners Michael and Heather Bunker, and their daughters Janine and Sophie, are originally from the local resort town of Southend-on-Sea....
...Heather Gramston, Browns’ senior head of men’s and women’s buying, points to bold, grungy styles by Burberry (£1,790), as well as “bestselling cult favourites” by Charles Jeffrey Loverboy as being typical...
...“I’d continually get an itch to create less formal paintings. It became more about the rooms than the people.” For the Dickinson trio, these homes are united by a tangible comfort....
...All of these varieties must meet a number of criteria to pass: for example, blossom honey must have at least 60g of fructose and glucose content per 100g, honey made from heather is not allowed moisture...
...The description of the final weeks of Emily’s life is almost unbearably moving: “All my life I’d withstood any damage inflicted on me, even by my own hand, felt sure that I would always recover,” she reflects...
...From the 1920s onwards she worked for John D Rockefeller Jr, planning a landscape of native plants along the roads he was laying on the island....
...Bradford, to Ilkley, to the cobbled village of Grassington: “There is everything a man can possibly want in these dales, from trout streams to high wild moor-land walks, from deep woods to upland miles of heather...
...“And he would reply, “Oh no, I’d rather call you Miss Smith because we have a professional relationship.”...
...It also depends on the style of four-poster you’d like to go for. Much as I love an antique mahogany number, I also enjoy a more tailored, 1960s-style approach....
...“I don’t know what I’d do now if I was 20 or 25.” But Himid doesn’t believe the cuts are a sign that “wealthy people don’t care. They do care....
...There are too many artists whose work I’d love to live with. The best bit of advice I ever received was to choose the important over the urgent. I heard this bit of advice from a sermon decades ago....
...During a tour of Phoenix 2, a 90-metre vessel which the Cecil Wright brokerage is offering for €125mn at the Monaco show, I meet its interior designer....
...“Sprinting isn’t anything we’d ever really geared our programme for before.”...
...In cryptography terms, they’d hit the jackpot....
...But when we’d ask her about her politics she’d just start a sort of rhetorical diatribe that went right over our heads....
...I’d bet my life that Biden cared a hell of a lot more about his opinion than Larry Summers’s....
...“If I was in London I’d have been very stressed, because living costs are so high.”...
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