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...Mega-offerings in New York next month include the $400mn-plus Emily Fisher Laudau collection at Sotheby’s — with a 1932 Picasso painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter estimated at $120mn — and, at Christie’s,...
...One family-owned brand, Ceramiche Fasano, comes from a line of potters based in Grottaglie in Puglia....
...During the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette evaded the Parisian mob through a secret door in her bedroom at Versailles....
...The family would return to the cities – Ottawa (in the early ’40s), Sault Ste Marie (1944-45) and Toronto (1946-47) – during the harsh winters....
...Last year she became a TV star with the Netflix reality show, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, helping people organise their homes, to be followed next year with Sparking Joy with Marie Kondo....
...Be led by them: some love simply to potter, others prefer to be set a challenge....
...Fully fledged performances run from next week, with one early show being Marie Jones’ Stones in His Pockets: a play that rather handily obliges just two actors to play all 15 characters, involving minimum...
...Beatrix Potter’s books continue to sell in their millions....
...Red Riding Hood , by Beatrix Potter, Warne, RRP£12.99/$20 Drawn from handwritten drafts stored at the V&A, this “lost” Beatrix Potter retells the classic fairy tale with dark relish, turning it into a stern...
...“I want to have a garden I can potter in, but I can’t afford one, so instead I potter in my tank,” he says....
...Moustiers Sainte-Marie is a tiny village in the Provençal Alps, just below the point where the climate becomes too harsh for olive trees to grow. In the 17th century, it was synonymous with faience....
...Valadon, born Marie-Clémentine, sold vegetables, was a nursemaid, trained as an acrobat and became a model and muse for the artists after a fall brought her circus career to an end....
...It is the abundance of the arts of the goldsmith and jeweller, armourer, potter, glassmaker and founder that marks out this vast Maastricht fair....
...On the weekends, he potters about for fun in his own Versailles-inspired garden, paying himself a nominal salary....
...My own ancestors were potters in the English pottery towns — the Five Towns in Staffordshire....
...She is Anne-Marie Imafidon, a child prodigy who did GCSE exams at primary school, got into Oxford at 17 and now manages both to have a job at Deutsche Bank and be an entrepreneur and all-round free spirit...
...Trip Pullman directs an all-female cast (Claire Forlani, Ronke Adekoluejo, Isabella Calthorpe, Charlotte Parry, Patricia Potter and Alice Sanders)....
...The Potter’s Field deals with themes of mortality and betrayal....
...I half-giggled once, when Emma Watson (late of Harry Potter, now of the Hollywood talent pool) cuts off her mother in the middle of her (Watson’s) Vanity Fair debriefing: “Mum, this is my interview.”...
...Emma Harry Potter Watson broadens her range and accent as one petty-crime cheerleader; Leslie Mann (This Is 40 ) gets brief titters as a prayer-saying mum....
...Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with archive shots – Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm, for example....
...And reports abound of “lingerie” finally catching up with “handbags” and “shoes” as the subject of Google searches, in what UK Marie Claire had dubbed the “Fifty Shades of Grey effect”....
...Dench appeared in Skyfall last year, Smith was in the last Harry Potter. Both appeared in the Exotic Marigold Hotel and Smith is currently in Quartet, set in a home for retired opera singers....
...Thomas Hughes-Hallett, chief executive, Marie Curie Cancer Care. Willie Haughey, entrepreneur and founder, City Refrigeration in Glasgow David McVicar, opera director....
...Many of my inspirations and heroes are from the scientific arena: female scientists such as Rosalind Franklin and Marie Curie for fulfilling their passion for science and discovery, despite prevailing gender...
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