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...The artist Corita Kent went by several names in the course of her lifetime. As a little girl growing up in Iowa in the 1920s, she was Frances Elizabeth Kent....
...“Hermès, Louis Vuitton, they only want flawless skins with no marks. We do it all here.” The birds blink in curious disapproval as we cycle away....
...When he joined Louis Vuitton, we did a project photographing kids in Johannesburg wearing one of his first collections. I’m a fiend for Birkenstocks because I love being comfortable....
...In England the designer William Kent was later said to have “leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden”. Le Nôtre had jumped it 60 years before, in France, not Oxfordshire....
...Plastic chunks scavenged from a Kent beach applied to the midriff make a face; the nose is a crab claw. The ensemble resembles a Congolese mask....
...Born into the Kent gentry (his father was a judge, eventually a Lord), Tomlin was sent to Harrow, where he dazzled with his promise....
...Chapel Down, Britain’s largest wine producer, agreed this year to lease 117 acres in Kent, bringing its total planted vineyards to 1,023 acres....
...Nonetheless, as the chancellor and I travelled to Kent to visit a housing factory that afternoon, we were positive that we had done the right thing for the country and felt optimistic about the future....
...Abercrombie & Kent (abercrombiekent.co.uk) will feature the museum as part of its seven-night Classic Egypt tour, from £4,480 per person....
...Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Mendick presents the complex relationship many people have with alcohol, bouncing between denial of pleasure and destructive...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale will feature 86 galleries, ranging from a few antiques dealers such as Perrin or Kent Antiques to western and Asian sculpture, paintings, drawings and manuscripts....
...As Paris’s former deputy mayor, Jean-Louis Missika, puts it: “Enormous numbers of foreigners come to France and fly below the radar.”...
...Philip JohnsonBromley, Kent, UK...
...Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first Letter in response to this article: How Brexit gave licence to cheap designer knock-offs / From Philip Johnson, Bromley, Kent...
...The piano is a special theme, and leading exponents including Emanuel Ax, Louis Lortie, Hélène Grimaud and rising star Alexandra Dovgan will be in town....
...“I wrote a list of things earlier,” she confides in her sing-song voice, her Kent vowels still strong despite first leaving her native Margate more than 40 years ago; she’s calling from her home there now...
...Very pure and pretty with depth and potential. £45 simpsonswine.com Louis Roederer Collection 243 NV ChampagneThe third edition of this impeccable house’s new, numbered non-vintage blend....
...During the pandemic, she also launched the lifestyle brand Udjat, in collaboration with French designer Louis Barthélemy....
...I have a mix of vintage and new ones, usually from Ralph Lauren, Paul Stuart and Kent & Curwen....
...gunthergelatoitaliano.com Maria Shollenbarger Berthillon, Paris Opened in 1954 by glacier Raymond Berthillon, whose black and white portrait hangs over the kitchen entrance, this ice-cream parlour on Île St-Louis...
...Guston saw the original pictures in St Louis and they haunted him for the rest of his life....
...Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie (1624-1688) was the horticulturist at the court of Louis XIV. An important part of his job was growing and selecting the pears for the royal table....
...In Kent, furniture maker Sebastian Cox coppices four acres of ancient woodland, seeing the timber as a byproduct of conservation....
...Superman was dead, Michael Caine explained to an American interviewer puzzled by this deviation from macho norms: the times belonged to Clark Kent....
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