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...Horace Walpole’s Gothick library at Strawberry Hill kicked off a furnishing trend of fussier bookcases and right into the 20th century libraries remained a pivotal part of a grand house....
...The hosts are aged siblings Rebecca and Horace Femm, a pair of odd-jobs menaced in turn by their drunken butler Morgan (Karloff, unrecognisable)....
...Ann Morgan’s ‘Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer’ is published by Harvill Secker on February 5 Photograph: Steve McCurry...
...When I paid a visit to Chris Fletcher, the Bodleian’s head of Special Collections, he showed me an edition of Horace’s Odes that had been written out by William Morris, with the collaboration of Charles...
...He was previously at Morgan Stanley. ● Cube Capital has hired Shailen Modi as its new chief operating officer....
...The collecting of stained glass began in earnest in 18th-century England, when Horace Walpole built his Gothic revival villa at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham....
...“The assumption underlying the current valuation is that there will not be anything else,” said Horace Dediu of Asymco, a mobile industry analyst, referring to new product lines....
...“Samsung is already more consciously avoiding copying,” says Horace Dediu, mobile analyst at Asymco....
...Favourite things This portrait of Bell’s wife Virginia by Howard Morgan hangs on the ground floor landing....
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