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...When her father George VI died in February 1952, the code had been “Hyde Park Corner”....
...Commissioned for him by his wife Mary Browne, daughter of the English ambassador in Paris, it is made of engraved ebony, its interior inlaid with exotic veneers and ivory....
...Muf was instrumental in the V&A’s acquisition of an apartment-sized chunk of the demolished Robin Hood Estate; it curated the British Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Biennale....
...A New York Times article this year lauded my corner of the city as “the beating heart of London’s most dynamic art scene”....
...Black slate that mimics the château’s roof runs from the ground to the eaves, a modern look that contrasts with an elegant bridge, built in the time of Louis XIV, at one corner....
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
...By the end of the century The New York Times had nicknamed the junction of 57th and Fifth “the palace corners”....
...Luther was excommunicated by Pope Leo X, then outlawed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, at the Diet of Worms....
...attire involving less baggy shorts, espadrilles, deep V T-shirts and vintage US college backpacks....
...In that time spanning Mary Quant, Biba and Westwood’s shops Sex and Seditionaries, fashion went from dolly bird to Johnny Rotten....
...I told Father Paul Walsh, Marist priest at Notre Dame de France, that it was remarkable that Cocteau-in-Soho was not better known....
...Frida Giannini, the creative director of Gucci, and Patrizio di Marco, the chief executive, are in the ornate restaurant of the George V hotel in Paris, posing for a portrait. They look uncomfortable....
...In keeping with the style at the time, I paired it with black suede clunky-heeled Mary Janes....
...Elegance and restraint are pleasing additions to any room and my William IV grandfather clock has a mahogany case, chamfered corners and quiet tick that make it a real pleasure to live with....
...But there is a quality here that reminded me of V.S. Pritchett’s description of short fiction, as ”something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing”....
...My reputation always had been my most prized asset, and I took great pride in having achieved my success without cutting corners....
...When a Kurd separatist invaded the Stamford Bridge pitch during a Chelsea v Galatasary clash some seasons back it was Wise who brought him down....
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