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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...
...Gérald Marie’s lawyer says Marie denies claims of abuse.) But on the surface at least, the supermodel life in the early 1990s resembled one long Fellini party scene....
...She favours the cream-flowered broom, Cytisus kewensis, beside an “upright bright mauve plant like Primula marginata ‘Linda Pope’”....
...In the courtyard below, the palazzo’s garden is deep in hibernation, all leafless grey ivy vines and fallow flowerbeds: but here, banana palms sprout next to rivers and huge ficus trees spread shade over...
...Bragg has been open about suffering two breakdowns in his life: one at the age of just 13 is movingly covered in the new book; the other during his first marriage, when his wife Marie-Elisabeth Roche took...
...Picasso “binged on the female nude and denigrated actual women”, Linda Nochlin argued. How to square this with a 21st-century market which gobbles up Walter?...
...He recently hired Linda Yaccarino, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal, to replace him as Twitter’s chief executive, while he focuses on the more technical aspects of the platform....
...Linda McKissack from Texas was drowning in $600,000 of debt, before she invested in 108 rental properties and became a millionaire landlord....
...Smith brings a new purpose to her family heirlooms every year, turning an inherited serving dish and cups into decorations by filling them with pine cones, lights and sprigs of ivy and holly....
...It’s a subject close to the heart of French jeweller Chaumet, which helped to realise the show and whose identity is deeply rooted in the botanical world; Marie-Étienne Nitot, the founder of the maison,...
...Nicolas Cage’s Elvis obsession is so acute he even married Lisa Marie Presley for a head-spinning three months....
...writer is an FT contributing editor and author of ‘Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics’ At President Joe Biden’s democracy summit last week, the US ambassador to the UN, Linda...
...The best students at his Ivy League college, Newport observed in one of his earlier works, were not the ones camped out 24-7 in the library, but those who were able to carve out time for fun and to clearly...
...Parmentier persuaded Marie Antoinette to wear potato flowers in her hair, and the king to wear them in his buttonhole. With that, potatoes became fashionable in France....
...The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern Worldby Linda Colley, Profile Books £25/Liveright $35 Linda Colley ranges from the US, western Europe and Russia to Haiti...
...Once a haven for local artists, the ivy-covered brick building still serves as a gallery and stage for travelling musicians. David A pegasuscoffee.com...
...At one point Yale-NUS was harder to get into than any of the US Ivy League schools — including Yale....
...Come the hybrid, bellwether November auctions in New York, more than $2bn of transactions were made in just one week, dominated by the $676m from just 35 lots from the divorced couple, Linda and Harry Macklowe...
...The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern Worldby Linda Colley, Profile Books £25/$35 Colley ranges from the US, western Europe and Russia to Haiti, Japan and Tahiti...
...State schools: St Marie’s primary school and St Andrew’s High School, both in Kirkcaldy, Fife....
...So, if partly for social engineering reasons, the first two invites go to comedians Linda Smith and Billy Connolly....
...It is exteriors and interiors to go with all that baking; ivy-clad cottages, just-picked veg, embroidered cushions and chintzy oven gloves....
...Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which won an Oscar for costume design (Website; Directions) If fine jewellery — and its attendant prices — is more than what you’re in the market for, make for the atmospheric, ivy-draped...
...As garden designer Ann-Marie Powell puts it, “Start thinking about what’s going to make you happy next year; do the jobs that please you because it will give you something to look forward to....
...@versaillesadness_ – 114K followers If Marie Antoinette had edited an interiors magazine, this would be its Instagram account....
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