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..., Architectes de l’Urgence is a French NGO that has mobilised thousands of architects in 41 countries....
...Pettet was Severs’ partner, and an extraordinarily gifted potter. (The story of their time together made me laugh and cry in equal measure.)...
...Just in case they don’t share my extensive knowledge of all the Harry Potter spells, I explain: Veritaserum is a powerful truth serum most often used in interrogation....
...After our long morning of history we headed to the nearby village of Margarites, famous for its potters, who still use the same materials and techniques as the Minoans....
...L’arbore di Diana (Diana’s Tree) is a satirical comedy, a political allegory, and a steamy tale of sex and transgression....
...Perhaps the only applicable definition is akin to Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of pornography: “I know it when I see it.”...
...Watching potter Paul Mossman at work inspired him to invest in his own wheel and kiln, despite having no experience handling clay....
...The grey is Timmy Tiptoes, dumpily drawn by Beatrix Potter in an ill-advised pitch to the US market....
...Chief among these developments is a basement disco room, where DJ L Rock (aka the orchestra’s first violinist) spins contemporary hits for a Zoomer-heavy crowd....
...Küfer joined Disguise in 2015, having previously worked in financial roles at companies including Lidl, L’Oréal, Ultra Motor and A2B Bikes....
...From €195, alcuzcuz.es Ajesh Patalay Muxima, Aljezur, Portugal I’m not sure I had ever actually seen frogs perched on lilypads outside a Beatrix Potter illustration, but you’ll come eyeball to eyeball...
...This staple in stories from Alice in Wonderland to Harry Potter excites the adult imagination, too: it appears, alongside hidden passageways and sliding bookcases, in many spy films and thrillers....
...L.S. Lowry has always been popular in the UK, but incredibly, not overseas....
...“Like something out of Harry Potter,” he laughs. “It’s an exercise that has you focusing on all your senses and synchronising various scales of time,” says Eliasson....
...When I was a child, my favourite books were Greek mythology: the Iliad by Homer, and fairytales. There was always something about mythology that spoke to me.”...
...One upcoming exhibition that promises to be original and inventive is the Musée de l’Orangerie’s Aux sources des Nymphéas: le décor impressionniste opening in March — surely a mouthwatering prospect....
...The best book I’ve read in the last year is Gigantic Cinema, an anthology of prose and poetry about the weather that runs from Homer through to scientific reportage....
...L J Hickman dauntbooks.co.uk The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle “I have such good memories of evenings on book tour there, and of the wonderful people running it.”...
...to Beatrix Potter by way of Chaucer, Dickens, Dumas, Tolstoy and others, alongside a brief retelling of one of their most famous works....
...Whole productions were sometimes ruthlessly dismissed: he describes a Scheherazade in 2000 as having “all the erotic charge of a Bath bun”; in 1995 a double bill of Tales of Beatrix Potter and Peter and...
...Passementerie Verrier is the last workshop of its kind in Paris (and a supplier to high-end fabric store Claremont Furnishing in London, New York and Los Angeles), and Les Passementeries de l’Ile de France...
...That, at least, is how Nigel Newton, founder and chief executive of the Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury, this week explained first-half profits that were its best since 2008....
...Statues of Winston Churchill, Princess Diana and Harry Potter add to the novelty of the scheme....
...Foodies flock to the buzzy gastropub and Michelin scene, mopping up Asian fare at HRiSHi in Windermere, or farm-to-fork food at Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume and the newish Henrock....
...As Homer Simpson might say. Boy, do I love it. I love it by the slice at a hole-in-the-wall pizzeria in New York. I love it delivered in a box on a Friday night when nothing else will do....
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