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...“I decided I’d do something which couldn’t be killed by freak weather so I began making things that looked like trees and plants and flowers,” says James in a 1978 film presented by George Melly, the English...
...It was created from leftover scraps of fabrics and antique ties Carzana had collected, which he then hand-dyed with plants, fruits and therapeutic oils....
...Extravagant floral displays, charming gardens and a chance to buy plants and trinkets and transform into a fully-fledged horticulturalist yourself....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Situated on LA’s Abbot Kinney Boulevard, the restaurant has a daily-changing menu of smoothies, lemon lavender waffles and cashew “ricotta” cauliflower pizzas....
...Despite multiple trips up the Eiffel Tower and the Tour Montparnasse, I had never mounted this great monument to those who have fought and died in the name of la patrie....
...It has a place in Parisian popular culture as the city’s only “la Poste” that stayed open nights....
...What really interests both designers is reinterpreting classic menswear staples such as varsity jackets, skinny jeans, pea coats and V-neck sweaters through craft and manipulation....
...(La Vanguardia) Meat may soon be off the menu, with Europe forecast to reach “peak meat” by 2025, after which products such as plant-based meat will take up a larger role in European diets....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...In a diplomatic triumph for the Kremlin, Russia's Sputnik V vaccine had a reported 91.6 per cent efficacy rate in clinical trials according to a peer review study published in the Lancet....
...(FT) Hold the leaves please Is the future of pot one without the plants? A $255m deal to convert sugar into cannabis-chemicals is opening the door to the possibility....
...When you are busy with quotas of sugar or transforming a nuclear plant in Slovakia, it’s all a bit far from the idea of beauty of the world.”...
...12 x 10 plate with collodion, when suddenly I was startled with a sheet of flame burning in front of my face; the vapour of the collodion had come too near the candle, and the whole plate was ablaze à la...
...In Australia, “Sem-Chard” was a popular blend that eked out the produce of such Chardonnay cuttings as had made it through the country’s strict plant quarantine with the (then) much more widely planted Semillon...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Quappi, now middle-aged, remains beautiful, strong, serene; her vitality is echoed by an enormous blooming plant at her side....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Central heating, cheap cut flowers and a consumer culture of instant gratification killed the potted plant, explains Horwood....
...While DBS’s economists already expected a V-shape recovery based on Asia’s resilience, Mr Santoso also had to take into account a wide array of factors – such as the “supply side impact of La Niña [an ocean-atmosphere...
...A judge in Regina v....
...Foster and Kreitzman focus on the less familiar circannual clock, which governs responses to seasonal changes and tells animals when to mate, migrate or hibernate – and plants when to grow and shed leaves...
...Opening with Anselm Kiefer’s two-metre-high oil on lead on cardboard “The Secret Life of Plants” (2008), a monochrome fantastical constellation of connected words, lines and blobs on a dark crumpled sky,...
...His world isn’t the la-la-land of Hollywood, however, but the geek-land of Silicon Valley. He grew up in Connecticut and arrived on the west coast via Chicago....
...Time-challenged gardeners, meanwhile, might be delighted by Alex Davis’s highly polished stainless steel potted plants....
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