Hints and tips:
...The beautiful Wallace drinking fountains still work, unlike London’s, which are mostly dry and clogged up with leaves and fag-ends....
...On the terrace of Mediterra, a Mediterranean-ish restaurant she frequents and describes as her “local pub”, a fountain murmurs as she sweeps off her sun hat....
...As a garden designer, I have yet to come across a client who doesn’t want a water feature in their garden; be it a natural swimming pool, a wildlife pond or simply a small fountain for relaxation....
...You can sit by the fountain and sip champagne while you admire the edit of vintage and new art monographs (most of those are quietly for sale too)....
...The large window, which echoes the shape of the fountains in Trafalgar Square, depicts the Margate lighthouse and the Turner Contemporary art gallery....
...The photographer, who died in September at the age of 74, had a long, illustrious and trusting relationship with the house, built upon both advertising campaigns – from J’Adore, with a sashaying Charlize...
...Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pens . . . Fount[ain] Pens Repaired”. He says: “It hadn’t occurred to me that you’d repair a pen. Today you’d buy disposable biros or a refill — but ‘pen repair’?...
...Then we make our way along Wood Vale, past K & J Libretto & Daughters, a resolutely ungentrified butcher’s shop....
...Like the sudden growth in sales of fountain pens and books, vinyl sales have confounded predictions. In the UK, sales have reached 3m so far this year — up 32 per cent on the same period in 2016....
...James Backhouse & Son of York, Kent-based Whitelegg’s Nursery, the Ingwersens and J Wood worked across the UK and showcased their skills each spring at Chelsea Flower Show....
...Like diners or soda “fountains” in the US, they were classless, democratic places — the essential frivolity of ice cream making it possible to contemplate breaking accepted social norms....
.../ From Gaffney J Feskoe, Woodbury, CT, US...
...Brigadier-General Reginald J Kentish, founder in 1925 of the National Playing Fields Association, expounded an “open spaces standard” of five acres per 1,000 people....
...: the cooling effect of the rippled water reflected in curled strokes of white bodycolour on the fountain basin; light and shadow playing between arches and columns....
...It was a preparatory study, made about 1653, for the artist’s spectacular “Fountain of the Moor” in the iconic Piazza Navona in Rome....
...Daniel J Levitin, a professor of psychology and behavioural neuroscience at McGill University in Canada, devotes an entire chapter in his appealing book, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age...
...This is the ready-made on capitalist steroids: Duchamp’s anti-market move of “Fountain” transformed at a stroke into commodity aesthetics....
...Ninety-seven years ago, a young French artist walked across Manhattan into 118 Fifth Avenue, an outlet for J L Mott Iron Works....
...At the end of January, the museum will be host to the Renaissance and Baroque bronzes of Janine and J Tomilson Hill....
...The peace treaty goes on seeming wholly unattainable right up until the three men unscrew their fountain pens in the White House. Yet they signed, and the peace has held for 36 years....
...I’ve also got Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories. Who would you most like to sit next to at a dinner party? Mick Jagger....
...My heroes – not all in business – are Katharine Graham, the publisher, J.K....
...“I’m in the south of France tomorrow morning, Cap Fountain, and then back in the afternoon for Australia Day with my wife....
...With its great aluminium dome, acrylic minbar and fountain by British designer William Pye, it is every bit as worth visiting as the city’s great Ottoman places of worship....
...Then, next to Ruscha’s “Fountain of Crystal” – and ruining its quiet, ironic effect – hangs Helmut Newton’s photographic series of hotel rooms containing Hans Bellmer-like doll women waiting to be manipulated...
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