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...affair with a briefcase: an evolution of the satchels used to carry money and valuables around, the modern briefcase’s structure and shape can be traced back to the stiff leather Gladstone bag, made by JG...
...This was in part owing to the dress code, based on “The Garden of Time”, a 1962 JG Ballard short story about an aristocratic couple, living on borrowed time in a luxury residence, who must protect themselves...
...This was in part owing to the dress code: “The Garden of Time”, a 1962 JG Ballard short story about an aristocratic couple, living on borrowed time in a luxury residence, who must protect themselves from...
...JG West’s 1921 Ministry of Pensions building in Acton was a contemporary take on Georgian; “that this huge, remorselessly repetitive and boring neo-Georgian warehouse was so much admired says much about...
...She namechecks “Iain M Banks’s Consider Phlebas, the first title in his Culture series, which can fetch around £1,750 for an inscribed copy, JG Ballard’s The Drowned World, which retails at around £3,000...
...Outside, things fall apart in a JG Ballard-style urban dystopia. Understandably, Fuller reins in the more familiar elements of this apocalyptic scenario....
...Like a run of other recent films and TV shows (The White Lotus, The Menu, most JG Ballard adaptations), Infinity Pool plays with the viewer’s lust for the trappings of wealth and repulsion for the people...
...The fiction of writers such as William S Burroughs and JG Ballard seemed to offer an approach that gave the viewer a way in....
...Mitchell sang of “dreams of 747s over geometric farms” in the ballad “Amelia”, and a quarter of a century later, novelist JG Ballard compared it to the Parthenon, writing that each gave shape to “mathematics...
...Another gallery I particularly enjoy visiting is JG Contemporary, which, after hosting several pop-ups around London, opened in the heart of Acton at the end of 2019....
...—JG Cole BarashSmokejumpers, 2017 These photographs document the work of US Forest Service firefighters, who in some circumstances use parachutes to reach wildfires in remote areas of the country....
...The look is stripped-to-the-bones apocalyptic, but it’s all a bit knowing, a bit JG Ballard chic. Nothing has any of the calm grandeur or the utopian generosity of the original about it....
...Novels such as JG Ballard’s unsettling The Drowned World and Maggie Gee’s devastating The Ice People, where the collapse has already happened, and people try to survive in the ruins of the world that was...
...technique (almost a laboratory technique) of taking inspiration directly from scientific data — together with his interest in elements of philosophical speculation and biology — had a considerable influence on JG...
...JG Frazer’s classic The Golden Bough (1890-1915) reports this practice as one common to “tribes from the Atlantic to the Pacific”, as well as the ancient Egyptians....
...JGS-designed gardens include one on the roof of London’s Great Ormond Street children’s hospital....
...Following the deal, Apis will own about 15 per cent and JG Summit around 5 per cent of Tyme after an initial $80m tranche of the investment....
...She also makes sure works by Toni Morrison and JG Farrell are easily grabbable. “If ever I get stuck, I read one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, or something brilliant,” she says....
...JG Ballard is the inspiration for “GSK”, an account of driving erratically on a flyover past GlaxoSmithKline’s west London headquarters....
...The Poet Laureate of Dystopia, JG Ballard, predicted that by about now private cars would not be allowed on public roads....
...Writing in the tradition of JG Ballard, Tom McCarthy and Dave Eggers, Byers scrutinises the distortions of a digital age where the concept of freedom has been diminished by social media, where choice is...
...After a dullish start to this six-part adaptation of the second world war-set novel by JG Farrell, the action is hotting up among the expat poshos sheltering in their palm-fringed gardens from the ravages...
...Her mother, Margaret, grew up in Shanghai (her older brother is novelist JG Ballard) and is an art historian, who went on to be the first female director of the Soane Museum....
...photographers Roberto Alcaraz Oviedo and Al Mefer have found striking beauty in the skyline, divining pastel planes and surfaces of apparently endless balconies that sit somewhere between Andreas Gursky, JG...
...Food, airline and property group JG Summit has set up a $50m fund, while Aboitiz Group, which has businesses in power and banking, and real estate developer Megaworld are both charging into tech....
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