Hints and tips:
...I’m tempted to give Phillyrea latifolia (green olive) a whirl. It naturally forms attractive shapes which remind me of the trees in Giotto’s paintings....
...“One thing I’m really good at is hiring amazing people,” she says. “She’s always had a very practical, intuitive side as well as a creative side....
...Post-bath, I enjoy the simplicity of a massive, gleaming, hotel-style white towel, and I’m rather loyal to The White Company....
...“I’m a decorator by trade,” he says. “But I’m weirdly anti-decoration. I hate anything too done-up or perfect – and I always approach rooms furniture-first.”...
...“I’m sure it’s fun to bargain with Mitsotakis, but it’s not the core job for a trustee chair,” says a senior trustee at another museum....
...Living in a block of flats above a pianist, I love hearing her practice when I’m at home....
...De Castellane is known for her warm and lively interiors – she favours a pastiche of print and colour that recalls le style anglais in the tradition of David Hicks and Nancy Lancaster....
...I’m very proud of what we built . . . [We are] increasing our revenues and becoming more sustainable.” Brazilian football is one of the enigmas of global sport....
...This is the route I went down when I commissioned Beaudesert to make my own bed a few years ago, inspired by David Hicks....
...The first show will be of new work by 88-year old textile artist Sheila Hicks. This will be followed by an exhibition of late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe....
...People always think I’m the wild one, but Hugo also loves to shock and surprise.” What followed was a two-stage transformation enacted over five years....
...“I’m not happy about it either. Very few people would be happy about looking like an anti-smoking poster.”...
...The original 80 rooms have been reduced to 50 to create more suites, including the 227 sq m La Palma suite, which Oetker says is the biggest on the island....
...Her mother, the prize-winning architect Sophie Hicks, is a former fashion editor at Tatler and British Vogue and stylist to Azzedine Alaïa, while her grandmother, Joan Hicks, was a successful model in the...
...The bedroom and anteroom (or dressing room), with its David Hicks-designed 1960s scheme of brown and citrine, appeared tired on the Manners’ arrival at the castle in 2001, but at that time only the curtains...
...Fortescue Metals Group, one of Australia’s largest mining companies, has appointed Fiona Hick as its new chief executive after poaching the Woodside veteran to run the business....
...I come and go as I please, I like to cook and to entertain people here, but I also like to be alone, and because I’m in a village I never feel isolated.”...
...Pandora Flower rug by Allegra Hicks, from £1,092 per sq m Individually made by hand, this design can be crafted to any size. allegrahicks.com Leo Rose lampshade by Matthew Williamson for John Lewis, from...
...“Oh no, I’m not having it,” declares Joan. “I hope not to get to 100. And I’m not having an exhibition.” Neither is squeamish on the issue of death....
...The Spac vehicle was run by Steven Hicks, a 28-year veteran of the radio industry and founder of investment firm Capstar Partners....
...I’m quite high up on their Ministry of Culture list, though.” (She is an officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.)...
...David Hicks, whose bravura use of colour has inspired a new generation, started out drawing cereal boxes at an advertising agency. Monet’s kitchen at Giverny is a concert of blue and white....
...I’m not interested in blah patterns, small in scale and in wan colours. Look to decorators from the past such as David Hicks and Madeleine Castaing for inspiration....
...Re-establishing the power of textiles is fundamental: “I’m in charge of my own narrative and that’s a very powerful statement, to say that I’m a black woman and I’m in charge of my stories and how I tell...
...“I was introducing myself and I’m like, ‘I’m a film-maker.’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, have you ever heard of Oscar Micheaux?’ And I’m like, ‘That’s my favourite film-maker,’” she says....
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