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...beeswax Groundnut Collection Stubby candles, £21 for set Dior cotton gabardine trench coat, £3,300 Completedworks resin napkin rings, £75 for set, matchesfashion.com Lumio cast resin Teno speaker and lamp...
...€440 Airei wool-mix trousers, £1,045, selfridges.com Pols Potten terry-loop fabric Clover pouf, £255, madeindesign.co.uk The inspiration: Romy Schneider at Coco Chanel’s studio, Paris, c1960 A.W.A.K.E...
...Giorgio Armani crochet top, £2,900 Akris laser-cut leather and canvas tote, €1,850 Lafayette 148 laser-cut suede jacket, £1,300, modesens.com A.W.A.K.E....
...And then these huge lamps hanging from the arched ceilings lighting our way as we move through the bank’s corridors of power . . ....
...Dad, if you’re reading this I’d like the Urbanista Los Angeles headphones, a Lumie bodyclock lamp, or if you’re feeling particularly generous an Ooni pizza oven....
...Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Mattersby Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, Harvard University Press £28.95/$35 This is an interesting and original book....
...I also have a collection of pottery made by my dad – vases, sculptures, lamps, mugs, planters....
...Nepal felt like another universe: the cut and thrust of crowds, of heat and colour, holy cows, stark poverty, the waft of ganja, a dog-eared Lonely Planet guide, the spill and glow of butter lamps, the drone...
...Available in six colourways. minimoderns.com Kernel Table Lamp by Bert Frank, £910 Bauhaus elements pervade Bert Frank’s lights, including the Kernel which is also available as a pendant and floor lamp...
...A switch dangles from the book-style shade, which is height-adjustable. sohohome.com F/K/A by Jonah Takagi for Matter Made, $795 Takagi’s playful design will brighten up any bedtime story....
...American artist Phillip K Smith III will create a sculptural installation inside the historic Palazzo Isimbardi, drawing on the architecture of the Italian Renaissance, for the fashion brand Cos....
...K&C Murderers. On a recent afternoon a steady stream of people filed past. Some stopped and stared....
...Photographs: Filippo Bardazzi, Laura Chiaroni/SooS Chronicles Letter in response to this article: Let’s hope the Russians never invade Tuscany / From David K Wilkinson...
...From an artistic troika — composer Maja S.K....
...Max Lamb has been commissioned to create a granite lamp for Johnson Trading Gallery made over six days using stitch drilling; and ammann//gallery presents the Sakala vase by Satyendra Pakhalé, his first...
...Eleanor Catton’s Man Booker Prize-longlisted second novel, The Luminaries, involves the interlocking stories of a Jewish newspaper editor, an Irish Free Methodist chaplain, a dapper Norwegian merchant, a...
...So far a creperie in Australia has developed a biodegradable wrapper, a Santa Barbara restaurant has installed an energy-efficient roof and K&D Market has switched to lamps that use less power....
...Eric Shannon, owner of S-K Ranch Management, a farm management company in rural California, says he left Bank of America “because they were too cumbersome – we were doing too much of their work”....
...G.K. Chesterton agreed with me: on Tolstoy’s 80th birthday he launched an attack on the GOM, saying: “Tolstoy is not content with pitying humanity for its pains: such as poverty and prisons....
...Noble points out that the use of gas lamps and candlelight, particularly in wall sconces, would have darkened and dirtied the walls....
...There is little natural light, the walls are white, the lamps are black and the waiters pad silently around in the gloom....
...Among the competitors in this year’s International Contest are At the Death House Door, the story of chaplain Carroll Picket’s career tending to prisoners on Texas’s death row, and Faiza Ahmad Khan’s Superman...
...He insists I take the nicest armchair and swaps the overhead light for a table lamp. When Seed concentrates, a hand goes to his temple, so his eyes are almost completely shadowed....
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