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...“If you’re a small operator . . . and you go to the bank with a two- or three-year payout on equipment and livestock and you’ve got a one-year contract, that’s a tough sell to a banker,” said JR Howard,...
...The Hollywood factor added glamour to the fair, whose arty crowd included actors Jessica Biel and Robert Downey Jr, and basketball superstar LeBron James....
...Now the film, released last weekend, is at risk of being upstaged by Loewe’s “I Told Ya” slogan T-shirt – inspired by a design once worn by John F Kennedy Jr – which Zendaya has worn on her press tour to...
...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....
...Before Howard Schultz retired from the Starbucks board this week, he lamented in an interview that the Democratic and Republican parties had both been “hijacked by the extremes”....
...“In order for you to have a functioning capital markets ecosystem you want the banks involved,” said Milwood Hobbs Jr, a managing director at Oaktree, the investment manager....
...Wednesday, with attendees including US President Joe Biden (virtually) US: Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Manila for an official two-day visit, where he is expected to meet President Ferdinand Marcos Jr...
...Albert Hammond Jr on coffee The Strokes’ guitarist loves the ritual of the daily grind I love coffee. I’m not sure if I’d call it an obsession – I like “ritual”....
...Jansen has offloaded many of the more mid-range hiking shops and added “super-hip, influential retailers” such as End, Wood Wood and Highsnobiety, which sell exclusive colourways....
..., written in large black script, glare from a wood-framed electric sign box....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...They like the wood panelling and the walls of black-and-white photos of the starry clientele....
...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...
...I’m now looking forward to the audiobook of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood — a thriller with a climactic twist....
...Judge Arthur Engoron has already found that the former president and his adult sons, Donald Jr and Eric, inflated their wealth by as much as $2.2bn in order to secure loans for their family business on advantageous...
...In a wood-panelled library of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the artist Kerry James Marshall is reminiscing about his first encounter with art....
...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.”...
...From the 1920s onwards she worked for John D Rockefeller Jr, planning a landscape of native plants along the roads he was laying on the island....
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