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...A previous decision we’d made to fit light-coloured carpets proved to be a terrible mistake, but a spot cleaner made things just about bearable....
...Rugs to riches The Karims of Keighley have done rather well out of Victoria plc....
...It is furnished in a 1960s retro style, adorned with Algerian and French film posters, full of records, magazines, rugs, Algerian decorative objects....
...In today’s newsletter: Jane Fraser asks staff to lean in The royal rug maker under scrutiny The Nomura banker stuck in China Last call aboard the Jane Fraser train Speaking to the bank’s 240,000 employees...
...The stair carpet, though, was a different challenge....
...Data campaigners should be more worried about healthcare than house cleaners....
...If you’re set on a breed that sheds a lot, naturally you will need to get to grips with a good vacuum cleaner....
...With the aim of relieving his asthma, he cobbled together a carpet sweeper, a fan motor, a broom handle and a soapbox, producing the first portable motorised vacuum cleaner....
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...By contrast, the house Connell shares with his mother Lorraine, who works as Denise’s cleaner, is intimate and welcoming....
...New carpets and rugs can “off-gas”, where chemicals in the backing leach out into the atmosphere....
...Bankside Design District South Bank The first UK exhibition of San Francisco’s Letterform Archive (see below) will include works by Eric Gill, Piet Zwart, Emigre, Inc and many others....
...It is filled with antique treasures, from Navajo rugs to Cherokee baskets and jewellery....
...But now Lord Harris, the executive chairman of Carpetright who has been selling carpets since he was 15, is quitting the group that has sometimes seemed to keep going by his willpower alone....
...Aby Rosen, the New York property titan and art collector who co-owns the office tower, has referred to the piece as a rug and a carpet in conversations with the New York Landmarks Conservancy....
...He does not advertise, or really play the celebrity/red carpet game, or have much of an ecommerce presence, or engage in any of the marketing strategies that are now considered de rigueur for a fashion brand...
...Paris is rolling out the red carpet for Chinese tourists as soon as they touch down on French soil....
...Russian politics, Churchill said, is like watching two dogs fighting under a carpet. Lately, however, Russia’s top political dogs have shed the rug and are nipping openly at each other’s heels....
...Hotel Murmuri, Rambla de Catalunya, 104 08008 Barcelona, tel: +34 935 500 600; www.murmuri.com Crafted carpets Chinese luxury carpet and rug maker Tai Ping has just opened its first showroom in London...
...Shopping at night gets it out of the way, he says, but tomorrow brings more chores: clearing up after the decorators and carpet layers....
...And hadn’t I been allowed free range here – choosing its muted, blueish-greenish colours, filling it with chairs and rugs that no one else liked?...
...The better suspension, larger wheels and greater motor torque also enable the machine to navigate deep carpets, rugs and raised thresholds more easily....
...But child workers exist not only behind closed doors as bonded labourers toiling in quarries, sweatshops and rug factories. They work openly in India’s major cities....
...Shopping “ABC Carpet and Home (888 Broadway, 212 473 3000) is a huge, fascinating source for Oriental rugs, antiques, home furnishing, etc....
...As consumer cynicism to advertising grows, carpet-bombing them with mass marketing increasingly will not work....
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