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...One of David Worthington’s works is in a relatively small, fenced garden in North Devon, designed by Paul Thompson and inspired by the houses of mid-century West Coast developer Joseph Eichler....
...Floral still life from the golden age of Dutch painting has been having a cultural moment, inspiring a generation of floral designers (including Emily Thompson, Thierry Boutemy and Mark Colle), ad campaigns...
...Others were in odd places, none more so than the dark blue Iris unguicularis Bob Thompson, which has disappeared from the RHS Plantfinder but not from a bone-dry strip of ground beneath the overhang of my...
...Jo Thompson has used it en masse in her Wedgwood garden. Iris ‘Comme un Oeuf’ Iris grower Cayeux always create a captivating display at Chelsea and this year it has eight new bearded irises....
...The deal, first reported by Sky, would value Iris at roughly £1.2bn. Iris provides software to accountancy companies and GPs and is owned by private equity group HgCapital....
...ICG also announced this week that it was taking a stake in Iris, a UK company that provides software to accountancy firms and the NHS. Mr Durteste does not plan dramatic shifts in his own situation....
...What must it have been like in 1942 for the young soldier Frank Thompson, who had met Iris, his “dream-girl”, at Oxford, to be airily told that she was “like all sensible people . . . searching out substitutes...
...Buying agent Rachel Thompson, a partner at The Buying Solution, lives locally with her family and was part of that wave. “A lot of my friends migrated from Notting Hill to Chiswick,” she says....
...Three years ago, I wrote here that the designer Jo Thompson should surely be given a chance to design a big garden on Main Avenue....
...(FT) McDonald's flipped its chief Steve Easterbrook, a veteran of UK high street restaurant chains, will replace Don Thompson, who leaves after a rocky three years and the first annual drop in same-store...
...A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson, by Peter J Conradi, Bloomsbury, RRP£18.99, 432 pages Peter J Conradi first encountered Frank Thompson when writing a life of Iris Murdoch, whose friend...
...Frank Thompson fell in love with Iris Murdoch at Oxford in March 1939, when she talked him into joining the Communist party....
...To raise funding, Thompson sold a Henry Moore his father had given him for £230,000 – which endowed NLS....
...Christopher Thompson is an FT UK companies reporter. To comment on this article, please e-mail magazineletters@ft.com...
...“It was a commonly held view that the capital had the best talent, which is why the top brands went there,” says Ms Thompson....
...The filmmaker, Ang Lee, cast her in another female double act, as Marianne Dashwood opposite Emma Thompson as her sister, Elinor, in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1995)....
...www.thompson-morgan.com...
...Other Newnham alumnae include former minister Patricia Hewitt, Labour MP Diane Abbott and writer Iris Murdoch....
...But filmmaker Daniele Thompson, who wrote Cousin Cousine, refuses to stint the charm, so we give in....
...IRI's survey said sales in France had fallen in the last few weeks of the summer season. Carrefour shares have come under intense pressure in recent weeks amid talk of a sharp decline in sales....
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