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...Richard Beech is co-founder of Electroheads, a London-based e-bike and scooter ecommerce brand....
...The place that means a lot to me is the Beech Forest in Provincetown. My boyfriend, Stephen, and I walk here year round....
...What else is the making of a James Bond film?...
...Chestnuts and limes sigh; ash echoes the sound of the sea while beech gives a stiffer rattling sigh....
...In North America, beech trees leapt over the Great Lakes as the glaciers retreated. Norwegian spruces circumnavigated the North and Baltic seas before modern humans did....
...Ganzfeld: Double Vision by James Turrell is open for free tours....
...Beech is now concentrating on family homes to diversify its revenue mix....
...“Anything between Harrogate and Harewood [a large country estate with medieval castle] is hot right now,” says James Wort of Strutt & Parker estate agency, who says that in the £1m-£1.5m range for their...
...It is almost entirely built of wood: laminated strips of beech made in Germany that not only form the walls, but the columns and beams....
...“There is a lot more demand for cloud designs and freeform designs,” agrees topiarist James Todman, whose clients include Kelmscott Manor, where he is currently in the process of reinvigorating William Morris...
...The saplings are yet to reach much taller than a metre, but in time their shoots will form a canopy of oak, cherry, beech and lime....
...The light shifts, or a skein of geese passes over, or the wind lifts the beech leaves and scatters them like giant copper sequins around me....
...One of the pleasures of Houghton Hall’s contemporary art exhibitions — over the past few years, they have staged Richard Long, Damien Hirst, Henry Moore and, stunningly, James Turrell — is that we have to...
...The garden is structured with topiary, a mile of beech, holly and yew hedges, and masonry walls....
...Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Barbican Centre managing director, said: “Everyone knows the Beech Street tunnel is a problem environmentally....
...“You’d walk into a room and people would say ‘that is the James Bond I never liked,’” laughs Neill....
...On exiting the Barbican Underground station, visitors are greeted by the dystopian vista of the Beech Street road tunnel — a menacing, fume-choked passageway....
...A narrow lane flanked by hedges led us up into the Black Mountains, past small farms and stands of gold-leafed beech trees and rowans festooned with bright red berries....
...Its beech woodlands, sandy heathland and open downland stretches from Farnham in the west to Oxted in the east, and it lies less than 30 miles south of central London....
...“You wouldn’t have to be James Bond or Dick Tracy or the head of the FBI or a writer for the FT to know in the world that breast augmentation is a popular thing,” he says....
...There I met James Morland, founder of specialist tour operator Elemental Adventure, who had flown in from his home in Chamonix....
...James and Rachel de Candole offer trips for up to four riders on their beautifully schooled horses, with picnics and overnight stays....
...Light My Sapphire, £12.50; opiuk.com The last thing I bought and loved was a pair of black Tibetan lambswool-covered beech chairs by the Czech designer Jindrich Halabala....
...Barclays, BDT, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom advised JAB Beech....
...A local priest, Father James Chesney, was widely suspected of involvement....
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