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...His 2014 Streetcar Named Desire unfolded in a revolving apartment; for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2017), Jack O’Connell opened the play naked under a shower....
...“There’s a nervousness in the market and people aren’t offering [on a property] unless they hear someone else has made an offer on it,” says James Waight of agent John D Wood....
...Dominic John, a 58-year-old director of a business coaching company from Buckinghamshire, recently moved from Val d’Isère to La Légettaz, 1km away, to upgrade from a two-bed to a three-bedroom apartment....
...According to a recent report by the real estate company Knight Frank, the sector is expected to grow by 55 per cent between now and 2026....
...Last summer, after three months on the market, Janey de Borchgrave d’Altena received a first offer for her Bath apartment, for £1.2mn....
...Although he’d always been interested in those worlds, he initially followed a career in football. “I never thought for one second I would stop playing and end up opening a fashion store,” he says....
...It provides access to further ski areas in the winter and to the Villars Golf Club in the summer. Who John D Wood & Co....
...Who Knight Frank House, Oxford, £2.85mn Where On St John Street in central Oxford, a 10-minute walk from the train station....
...creation at the head of the Marshwood Vale, and a yew-and-sculpture garden belonging to British furniture maker John Makepeace in Beaminster....
...Continental Resources, which shale pioneer Harold Hamm took private last year, is the US’s biggest private oil producer, pumping 280,000 b/d. It’s also a natural gas powerhouse....
...Maisky — but they’re offset by quirkier offerings from Laurie Anderson, a tribute to Frank Zappa and Berio’s Folk Songs....
...The result was Sity, for furniture company B&B Italia, launched in 1986, the first in a series of sofas....
...It also served, briefly, as the “Summer White House” when President John Tyler – who’d married a Gardiner in 1844 – escaped from the stifling heat of Washington for the relative chill of East Hampton....
...The sheer logistical challenge of getting goods from A to B is acting as a big drag....
...“I’d heard the name,” says Ireland, “but as I slowly began to document the buildings, it became clearer the effect he’d had on the city, especially through the private homes he built....
...Did Monaco turn a blind eye for too long to money from Russian oligarchs? “Everyone seems to focus on us because of our Russian residents. Many more have homes along the Côte d’Azur....
...Our own furniture would barely fill a single supersized room and so we’d be grateful for everything. We’d even eat the groceries in the cupboards....
...José is the maître d’ there and I love him – the French food is excellent too....
...his craft on silent films, assisting cinematographers Alvin Wyckoff, a frequent collaborator of Cecil B DeMille, and the Japanese-born Henry Kotani....
...Serge thought I was just fine, contrary to what I’d understood from John.” The British never really got Gainsbourg, I suggest. “No,” she agrees....
...One friend was surprised to find a “completion” sum buried in the contract’s small print: “We’d paid a fee upfront for the drawings and building work....
...White convinced Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III, brothers he knew from high school, to buy the struggling outfit for $2mn....
...To populate these new hotels and apartments, the middle and working classes soon arrived, including former US soldiers who’d trained on Miami Beach during the second world war....
...“They need to make a decision if they want to get it. The situation has reversed very quickly — I’d say over the last four months.”...
...In a tweet, Sir Elton John described him succinctly as “the ultimate drummer”. Watts, son of a lorry driver and a housewife, was born in London in 1941....
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