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...But during a recent restoration curators tracked down appropriate antiques — bookcases, desk, a daybed and a wood-fired oven for the kitchen....
...In the UK, we are further blighted by the 19th-century urban reformer Ebenezer Howard’s ideas about the “garden city” — the concept of allowing urbanity to coexist with nature....
...He is currently working on the long-term renovation of Castle Howard, among other projects, and is an expert in the vernacular of the English stately home....
...wooden chimneypiece and cornicing, which recalls the delicately drawn Chippendale-style of master carver Thomas Johnson, stripped back by the property’s owner – a fellow antiques man – to the original wood...
...Take “Boomerang” (1962), a sequence of wood pieces — some geometric, some softly curved and unctuous — arranged on a square ground, but which seem to protrude from the wall organically, like the antlers...
...Old-school elegance on Rhode Island Gardiner House, in Newport, Rhode Island, is a passion project five years in the making by locals Howard Cushing and Wirt Blaffer....
...19th century, that produce up to 600 colours with sympathetic degrees of striation for authenticity, and have specialised in working with large carpets, especially for historic houses including Castle Howard...
...Take a look at the dark, intriguing interiors of London’s NoMad hotel (the former Bow Street Magistrates’ Court) with its heavy drapes and lush, dark-wood library, its post-industrial greenhouse restaurant...
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
..., reaching back to the Bayeux Tapestry and the much celebrated, densely stitched medieval Opus Anglicanum, traditions built on by ambitious 20th-century textile artists including Ann Macbeth, Constance Howard...
...“Howard was always interested in collaborating,” says Antony Peattie of his late partner, the revered British artist Howard Hodgkin. “He found painting so lonely and loved to get out of the studio.”...
...Wisconsin-born Stilin is an interior-design superstar in the US with high-profile clients such as Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, fashion designer Fernando Garcia (the co-creative director of Oscar de...
...Inside its headquarters, white-gloved waiters glide around wood-panelled dining rooms to provide silver service to aristocrats, billionaires and their families....
...The PRA’s Woods adds: “You need to be very clear about your operational independence....
...“It’s not like buying a Howard chair,” when the brand ensures a level of quality, he says....
...There’s also a fantastic restaurant called Agnes in Fortitude Valley, which is set in an old brick warehouse, and every dish is made in vast wood-fired ovens....
...Many of his signature dishes are cooked or smoked on a wood-burning grill; the roast chicken is superb....
...If you’re using them with wood, be careful to place offcuts of wood between the clamp and the wood you’re working on so the surface doesn’t get marked....
...Confidence Index Results: AG Barr FY, Bellway H1, Jefferies Q1, McCormick & Company Q1, Micron Technology Q2, Ocado Retail Q1 trading statement, United Utilities trading update, Walgreens Boots Alliance Q2, Wood...
...Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood on everything from deflation to Elon Musk Cathie Wood’s Ark sheds almost $50bn in assets since 2021 peak After the tech sell-off: will growth investors keep the faith?...
...I mean, those with very long memories remember how Michael Howard tried to dodge responsibility for problems in prisons by saying the Prison Service operates at arm’s length, and we’ve created all these...
...Howard Davis, founder of the Bristol-based agency Howard Independent Estate Agents, says many long-term landlords in the city are now looking to sell — as he speaks to the FT, he has on his desk three valuation...
...But they have largely enjoyed a revival since the start of the pandemic, with many such as Caxton Associates and Brevan Howard profiting handsomely as interest rates were slashed in 2020 in a bid to revive...
...I’d ask the comedian Victoria Wood to arrive early to give me some tough love, check I’m tucked in at the back and that my collar’s straight....
...(Simon Mundy) ‘Patience has now run out’: Investors frustrated with US company union policies This week Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz was in the crosshairs of firebrand senator Bernie Sanders...
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