Hints and tips:
...In my fridge you’ll always find chocolate and coffee. I grew up on coffee and cocoa plantations in Africa, and I don’t remember a single day of my life without either of them....
...Jimmy Lee Sudduth’s pigments range from berry juice to coffee grounds, while his skyscraper painting “Atlanta” (1988) stakes a claim to the city in its own red mud....
...Marlène Huissoud Growing up on a farm in the French Alps, where her parents kept bees, Marlène Huissoud became fascinated by the “habits of insects”....
...The last thing I bought and loved was a selection of vintage coffee-table books on Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman and Marlene Dumas....
...By day two, the stringent meal times and absence of sugar and coffee have left me with nausea, headaches and night terrors. Stritzke ensures me that it’s all part of the plan....
...Unsure whether this is an example of her notorious use of repetition or just the plum liqueur talking, I hand out cups of strong coffee and tiny pop biscuits....
...Along with other art-book publishers, namely Phaidon and Assouline, Taschen has been instrumental in creating the cult of the coffee-table book....
...For some it’s the first cup of coffee, or the moment they put their glasses on, or that cold footstep on the bedroom floor....
...Four hours’ drive further north is Matagalpa – coffee country, where fields of workers in bright daubs of raingear hand-pick coffee cherries into baskets....
...Cross Marlene Dietrich with Francis Bacon, add a touch of Miss Marple and you get an idea of the captivating, gifted yet rather cosy personality that is Maggi Hambling....
...Treasures include a 1930s lemon-adorned vase found in Venice as well as larger pieces like a 1960s brass and mirrored-glass coffee table by Romeo Rega....
...He had a tropézienne on the customer’s table by the time coffee was served. The tarte was €5. The helicopter was €2,000. The diner’s bill reflected all of this. But he was happy....
...“Both coats have an air of boudoir-style elegance,” says Griffiths, who took inspiration from Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo wearing similar coats as inspiration....
...Redolent of the Hollywood androgyny of Marlene Dietrich, it chimed, too, with modernity and the increasingly unfixed lines of sexual difference....
...In the pre-internet age, Aucoin shared his wisdom in a series of coffee-table books, beginning with The Art of Makeup in 1994....
...We sit down at a black lacquered coffee table and Louboutin explains his philosophy of buying objects on his travels. “I’m always thinking hand luggage,” he says....
...On the stand of Carpenters Workshop Gallery, in the same prime spot at the fair’s entrance for several years, sits a series of pieces — from coffee tables to lights — striking in their chilly austerity....
...It was approaching midnight as the gourmet express drew back in to the now deserted Gare de l’Est, but there was still time for coffee and mignardises to be served. “Oh, look!”...
...Some names are familiar, such as those of Marlene Dumas, Hans Haacke, Theaster Gates and Glenn Ligon....
...At a ladies’ luncheon, the design was spotted by a couple of New York buyers and by the time coffee was served she had an order for 40 similar pieces, with matching skirts....
...It is just what your coffee table has been waiting for....
...Martha Marcy May Marlene, from first-time filmmaker Sean Durkin, is more like a game of water polo played in slow motion in a swamp....
...Yes, there’s a coffee table that is mine and it goes well with the romantic 18th-century pieces that I like – for example, a Japanese sculpture of birds or a Louis XVI console table....
...Is it Marlene Dietrich?...
...An art nouveau garden, endowed by an American coffee king, has 350 varieties of roses; an art deco one is terraced with waterfalls; a footpath down a valley leads to a garden bursting with rhododendrons....
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