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...In the “Poets’ Room”, an inscription – “Let me doe noe things Lord but what may tend to thy… glory and my end” – is believed to be the work of Ellis Wynn, the clergyman and author of the Welsh-prose classic...
...The vessel could be a symbol for his own work: repair and renewal have become a speciality of his practice John McAslan + Partners alongside its shiny new developments....
...Le Commandant Charcot, the world’s most powerful non-nuclear icebreaker, is one of the very few vessels to have sailed these waters....
...Time-ravaged Old Masters translated into dresses and coats overlaid with silken strands that shivered as the models walked....
...s pre-eminent gallery of old masters....
...The waves that crash around the vessel look more like hairy hummocks, so that the boat seems adrift on a sea of mounds, as if it were stranded in the desert outside Siena....
...Best of the lot, however, is The Wyndham Collection (£125.00), made up of three of John Wyndham’s droll, darkly apocalyptic novels: The Day of the Triffids (1951), The Chrysalids (1955) and The Midwich Cuckoos...
...My husband is always fighting to get me out of there, he calls it my “lab”. But it gives me time to pause and appreciate my body as a vessel and how it guides me through life....
...She first burst on to the national and international political stage in 2008 as John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate. But she was widely derided for comments about Russia....
...January – presents various masterpieces in its next sale, with a wealth of old masters’ paintings and sculptures as well as 20th-century photography by Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin and Cecil Beaton....
...Which kind of vessel to go for depends. These days I am enjoying the delight of a single bloom in a bud vase....
...Ownership of the 67-metre explorer vessel (aka a yacht that acts as a support vessel for even bigger yachts) was transferred from Ukrainian billionaire Yuriy Kosiuk to a British Virgin Islands-domiciled...
...“It is crucial to master its craftsmanship and the evolution of shapes, sizes of bags, the use or not of certain skins – all elements that make it possible to authenticate the bag.”...
...Stepping bravely into roles that neither expected, yet that both understand the weight of, they are allowing themselves to be vessels for circumstances that, as the story goes, will eventually change the...
...The whole operation functions as a kind of relentless Lalique world....
...UHNW alpha masters, basically, many of them with an inclination to better the state of the world (see: that onboard scientist) while conquering one of the few terrestrial frontiers left out there....
...Of the two, Hiebert’s book is more conclusive, arguing that the countries in Beijing’s backyard need to find common cause and be better masters of their fate....
...the likes of fashion designers Paul Smith and Peter Pilotto and architect John Pawson....
...well as cultural institutions such as the National Museum of the American Indian....
...History, ambition and what was once thought of as the west’s capacity to master the east crackle around these two names....
...Castle and his British counterpart John Makepeace....
...John William, a 17th-century elector palatine, worked under the tutelage of the ivory-turning master Georg Steiner to produce a magnificently loopy cup and cover, which sits on a base like a spiral staircase...
...For the wedding service at the gothic revival St John the Baptist Church in Kensington, Gooch created an altar installation of blossom boughs and camellias, which, like most of her work, was created on site...
...“It’s the end of an era, all right,” said Mr Mahood, a 64-year-old docking master who has worked at H&W since 1971....
...(FT) Jeff Bezos’s master plan Jeff Bezos has never dominated a market as thoroughly as Andrew Carnegie or John D Rockefeller....
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