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...which she has hundreds at home, all customised with glitter and capital letters in one of her two “Libbie factories” (a studio adjacent to her bedroom in New York, and another in a converted garage in the Hamptons...
...Rowan bought upscale restaurants in the Hamptons. Harris collected sports teams....
...I am a fan of many of the company’s wall lights, but I am particularly enjoying the Hand Sconce V. 2, which features an opal glass shade that would provide a lovely, glowing light....
...My point in telling you about my holidays is simple: I am in the vortex of Britain’s stunning V-shaped recovery....
...Even Man v Food, in which a presenter who I fear will die young tackles “interesting eating challenges” (think a “Texan Dinner” involving a 72oz steak) proved grossly compelling....
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...Some people call Comporta, a coastal area about an hour and half’s drive from central Lisbon, “The Hamptons of Portugal”....
...And I think actually when you look at the big picture the whole election, obviously number one is Labour v Tory, as always. Yeah....
...Tetrick shudders at the V-word. “Like ketchup is a vegan product,” he says defensively. Just’s vision is not to have its products adopted only by vegan San Franciscans....
...Who Engel & Völkers, engelvoelkers.com, tel: +351 21 096 06 40 19 Chauncey Close, East Hampton, New York, US, $21m Where Between Georgica Pond and the Atlantic in East Hampton....
...It was Hampton’s first solo show in 10 years....
...The clock was the talk of last year’s Masterpiece, and is now owned by the V&A. How does this diffident, shy character work such magic?...
...No Godiva this year, but the cake is back, freshly decorated to mark the (slightly more fitting) 600th anniversary of Henry V’s victory at Agincourt....
...Alden Gregory, assistant curator at Hampton Court Palace, says one of the most interesting pieces, now in the V&A, is “The Triumph of Fame over Death” based on Petrarch’s The Triumphs....
...She is also a director of The National Archives, and a former trustee of the V&A and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She is, like her father, a wonderful broadcaster....
...But the most spectacular was Hampton Court Palace, a gift from Cardinal Wolsey, which he spent some £62,000 (equivalent to about £18m today) rebuilding and extending....
...Following the recent case of Prest v Petrodel, it is clear that a wife cannot “pierce the corporate veil” to access the assets of the husband’s company....
...Kim Wilkie, who designed the V&A’s renowned John Madejski Garden, will discuss his life and work at the V&A on Monday June 18, 7pm-8.45pm £15 (including reception and book signing), tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2277...
...It was built in the late 1530s for King James V and his French wife Mary of Guise but it is doubtful that they ever lived there together as James died in 1542, leaving Mary to hold court at Stirling alone...
...John Gent, Hampton Wick, Surrey, UK...
...In 1699 William III commissioned Christopher Wren to build a gallery devoted to the Raphaels at Hampton Court that was open to the public; when Queen Victoria created the V&A, she decided in 1865 to make...
...Someone who’s summered in the Hamptons and wintered in Gstaad; knows the chicest little eaterie in José Ignacio and is on first name terms with the concierge at the George V....
...Later, standing in the Palazzo’s forecourt, Morari told me that Federico and Charles V had played tennis here during the latter’s visit. “Can you imagine playing tennis with Charles V?”...
...Before his show, for example, John Galliano said he had been inspired by the film Grey Gardens and the mother and daughter, Big and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, who lived and decayed in their East Hamptons...
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