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...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...At a Brookings Institution event in September, Ryan called Moore v US a “misguided challenge” adding: “I’m not for a wealth tax, but I think if you use this as the argument to spike a wealth tax, you’re...
...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....
...In inner London, rents have climbed 13 per cent in a year, according to Hamptons estate agents....
...The luxury homes in the Hamptons, Manhattan and Fisher Island were bought via a series of shell companies in Panama and the Bahamas, the US government said on Friday, in an announcement coinciding with the...
...In London, they accounted for 22 per cent of sales so far this year, says Hamptons, up from 17 per cent in the same period last year....
...v=Tx9yrdjPKQ4 – FT Magazine cover, ‘A 12 year journey into Ukraine’ by Christopher Miller: https://www.ft.com/content/f1983056-c34f-4646-946a-6328200d65e7 – A year in review: ‘How Putin blundered into...
...“You need society to contribute at every level,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Kyiv-based Centre for Defence Reforms think-tank....
...In Monday’s attacks, the white, V-shaped drones carrying payloads of up to 30kg targeted buildings in central Kyiv, their noisy engines humming along like mopeds, which is what the Ukrainian forces now call...
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...“In Henley people overestimate their house price,” says Stephen Christie Miller, who runs Savills’ Henley office....
...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...
...v=TPyHuCZzsVA – An interview with Shirin in the FT from September 2021: https://on.ft.com/3zVaVk8 – How science is getting closer to a world without animal testing, by Clive, Hannah and Joe Miller: https...
...Miller or his corporate Christmas cards for Tiffany & Co, Warhol’s fabrics were not designed to sell or promote anything; they were pure design....
...“The V shaped recovery in China was remarkable,” Mr Källenius said. The resurgent market helped Daimler record a pre-tax profit of €3.1bn for the third quarter, and free cash flow of more than €5bn....
...In the first half of 2022, newly signed contracts were down 20 per cent year-on-year, says real estate appraiser Jonathan Miller....
...Rowan bought upscale restaurants in the Hamptons. Harris collected sports teams....
...dress than cool-girl endorsement, and in 2018, Vogue called the Falconetti the “Dress of the Year” after famous faces including Tilda Swinton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Florence Welch, Jennifer Aniston, Sienna Miller...
...The sudden boom in orders last autumn, in the wake of a sharp, pandemic-induced drop, resembled “a very sharp V . . . in China it was a very, very sharp V,” Busch said....
...Evelyn Miller’s Roxane finds interesting contradictions in a woman sick of being objectified yet demanding an ideal man, and Tom Edden is enjoyably waspish as the villainous De Guiche....
...Also in February, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington plays Henry V in a new, modern staging of Shakespeare’s play that promises to explore our relationship with Europe and what it means to be English (Donmar...
...In central London, Hamptons’ rental index dropped 24 per cent at its lowest point....
...So far this year, the average property price in Henley has been £828,080, up 10.7 per cent from 2019, according to analysis of Land Registry data by the estate agency Hamptons....
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
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