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...One photograph from 1990 catches archaeologist Iris Love’s dog (Just Desserts) and socialite Brooke Astor’s dog (Dolly Astor) as they vied for the pup-friendly canapés at a dachshund party hosted by Midtown...
...jo.ellison@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Mrs Astor’s Four Hundred and American snobs today / From Mike Duggan, Potomac, MD, US...
...In the early 1960s, Rothschild met Serena Mary Dunn at the house of Nancy Astor, the first woman to take a seat in Britain’s parliament....
...Jamb’s art deco style ‘Astor’ chimneypiece in black marble and onyx lends deeply glamorous Soanian drama to the drawing room, £27,500 + VAT....
...Its story goes as follows: John Jacob Astor IV, heir to a real estate fortune, had to pay top rates to commission Parrish for the mural, which originally hung in Astor’s Knickerbocker hotel on 42nd Street...
...Society names such as Astor and Ormsby-Gore crop up repeatedly in the pages, while a footnote explains how to pronounce Drake’s boarding school, Marlborough (“maulbruh”)....
...Necheles started out working with Frederick Hafetz, a legend of New York’s white-collar bar, whose high-profile clients included a procession of Italian mobsters, a former Miss America and Lady Astor’s son...
...I would also love to collect Jasper Johns – particularly his American-flag paintings. I am the most patriotic person you’ll ever meet....
...Valdés set up each episode from behind the concert grand, and keyboardists Hilario Durán and John Beasley took turns to conduct the orchestra’s precision dynamics and rhythmic twists....
...The programming is inspired: it’s mostly cult classics, from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Akira to John Hughes double features and seasonal specials such as The Exorcist on Halloween....
...economy, Newport began to play to its breezy, beachside charms, marketing itself as a summer destination for wealthy East Coasters; by the mid-19th century, it was the summer home of the Vanderbilts and Astors...
...It’s got a sweet little beer garden out front, and Jura regulars (David Cameron and a few Astors among them) like to wait out the queues here....
...John Jacob’s father, William Waldorf Astor, had bought Hever in 1903 and set about the most ambitious private engineering project of its time....
...One chapter focuses on a fraught 1833 encounter between English actress Fanny Kemble and John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the US....
...Hever Castle) and William’s cousin John Jacob (“Jack”) Astor IV, who would die on the Titanic in 1912....
...point of collapse, please make time for one more: the rarefied company of aristocrats, stars, geniuses, beauties, heirs and overachievers who have come together at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum for John...
...It was built by William Waldorf Astor in the 1890s — when Astor was probably the richest man in the world — and hosts exhibitions from publicly-owned collections around the UK....
...The world perceived through the eyes of John Ruskin is a wondrous, exquisite, tormenting place: beauty experienced as rapture, ugliness denounced in a moralist’s shrill tones, delight and despair equally...
...Astor Piazzolla, the greatest tango composer in modern Argentina. What’s on your summer reading list?...
...We all know who got extra with paint: John Farrow and Richard Ball set up in 1946 and started the trend for colours with names like Pigeon, Wevet, Dead Salmon and Churlish Green....
...John Lewis sells “granite whisky stones” (£15 for six, with pouch) that do much the same job. (Incidentally, I do not advise storing bottles of wine in a deep freezer....
...Notable members Douglas Fairbanks (early Hollywood star), John Jacob Astor (scion of the famous business dynasty), JP Morgan (financier), Franklin D Roosevelt (US president) Gender policy Men only....
...Ma’s repertoire stretches from Frédéric Chopin to Philip Glass, Luigi Boccherini to Astor Piazzolla, but it is Bach’s cello suites for which he is rightly renowned; the Prelude of the First Suite from his...
...Chris Allieri, founder and principal of Mulberry Astor, a communications consultancy, said Facebook did not manage to change the narrative from making mistakes and apologising, yet again....
...Though the estate belongs to the National Trust, the house, former home of William Waldorf Astor, is operated as a hotel by Iconic Luxury Hotels....
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