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...The quintessentially 18th-century French textile, with its bucolic motifs — piping shepherds, coy milkmaids or ivy-strewn ruins — printed in soft blues or reds on a white cotton, was a favourite of Marie...
...Then, she heard from Teena out of the blue. They realised they weren’t alone. Teena no longer lives in Ireland....
...Each piece is handmade by craftsmen in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, Provence. Z.d.G....
...The high-ceilinged room is decorated sparingly with 1970s artefacts, including a sideboard with blue-and-green panels and a family of Bjørn Wiinblad’s large round-faced ceramic figurines....
...been shaped by Joséphine’s story; the house was originally commissioned to make jewels for Napoleon’s coronation in 1804, after which Joséphine became a client (followed later by Napoleon’s second wife, Marie-Louise...
...In central Sarasota, the Marie Selby garden has few of the challenges confronting Kew’s drive for sustainability....
...A few days ago, a friend texted me out of the blue. “Man eating prawns with dip on the train,” she said. “Quite rogue, if you ask me.” I knew the snack she was talking about....
...to watch two films before they started shooting: Russian director Elem Klimov’s masterful anti-war classic Come and See (1985) and Under the Wire, a 2018 documentary about celebrated war correspondent Marie...
...At a Christie’s sale in Paris late last year, a painted “Etruscan” armchair that once adorned Marie Antoinette’s apartments at Versailles, still retaining its original blue and grey pigment, hammered down...
...And, to the fury of her father, “I gave £10,000 to the Marie Stopes clinic.”...
...I’ve yet to eat in the hotel’s two-Michelin-star Flore restaurant, but I very much enjoyed dinner in its Brasserie Marie, which is popular with locals, thanks to its reasonably priced menu (hors d’oeuvres...
...Cézanne rarely slept here, preferring to walk back to his apartment in town, which he shared with Marie-Hortense Fiquet, his model and, later, wife and their son Paul....
...Last year, Hurricane Ian caused an estimated $35bn-$55bn of damage, Fitch Ratings found — second only to the damages left behind by Hurricane Katrina in 2005....
...It was very Texan meets Marie Antoinette....
...“Covid put the desire for flexibility on steroids,” said Marie Dormeuil, from industry analytics specialist Green Street. “Offices were such a sleepy sector....
...With a prescience that I have come to expect, Anne-Marie Colban — who, with her brother, owns Charvet — put on a collar with a 9cm point....
...The securities were issued by the “Gabon Blue Bond Master Trust” and were described as “blue bonds” in statements to the press by Bank of America....
...In her Take Me to the Water series, she looked to paintings by the likes of Rembrandt but also to the Portrait de Madeleine (1800) by French Marie-Guillemine Benoist....
...We were set on this path by organiser-in-chief Marie Kondo, whose bestselling books evangelised the “life-changing magic of tidying up”....
...In the apartment above her lives Brandino, one of her four sons, whose late wife Marie founded the Venetian glassware brand LagunaB (it’s now overseen by his son, 32-year-old Marcantonio, who comes by to...
...Inside the property’s gallery space, La Laiterie, are two of Pamela Rosenkranz’s 2021 “Alien Blue Window” lightboxes, the LED-blue turning a deeper hue as the natural light fades....
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...In this photograph, taken one evening in the park as the boys played football in “the blue hour, sunset hour”, the subject is watchful, looking protectively at something outside the group....
...Marie-Theres von Schickfus, deputy director of energy and climate issues at the Munich-based Ifo Institute, points out that according to Berlin’s energy plans, 7 per cent of Germany’s current electricity...
...Magic Circus Éditions Marie-Lise Féry’s playful designs will catch the eye at Maison&Objet. Her Big Chain 01 – Empoli pendant light is one jaw dropper....
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