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...In central Sarasota, the Marie Selby garden has few of the challenges confronting Kew’s drive for sustainability....
...At a Christie’s sale in Paris late last year, a painted “Etruscan” armchair that once adorned Marie Antoinette’s apartments at Versailles, still retaining its original blue and grey pigment, hammered down...
.... £105, asics.com Métier Marrakech-suede Market Small bag The London-based American accessories designer Melissa Morris – not actually from California, but so upbeat and effervescent and fabulous she may...
...Hidden in my back room, out of shame, among other items of broken furniture, are four 19th-century oak, rush-seated chairs in need of repair....
...“Victoria’s attention to detail is unparalleled,” says Melissa McGinnis, head of beauty at Selfridges department store, the brand’s exclusive partner in the UK....
...Mauritius Vallée de Farney eau de parfum ($93 for 50ml) is an island escape from Maison Louis Marie that recreates the nature reserve of the same name that’s home to more than 100 plant species....
...Two Parisians, Marie and Anaïs, ask me to take a photo of them next to the monument. Neither is a fan, although Marie’s absent son is....
...The four main lettuces are the dark green oak-leafed Clearwater, red Rosalo, Friel and Celinet....
...And when Olga was in Paris, his mistress Marie-Thérèse would visit Boisgeloup.” “I saw him with the eyes of a child....
...The actor has past form for Marie Kondo-esque de-cluttering. “As a kid, I shared a room with my sister, which I would decorate all the time by moving the room around....
...He painted the store’s oak furniture black, “to leave all the space for colours”, says Jean-Claude....
...Based on 2018 and blended with oak aged wines from 2009, 2011 and all vintages from 2013 to 2017 inclusive that make up the perpetual reserve begun in 2012....
...We were on shaded paths of scree, which looked deceptively gentle at first, the broad oak trees keeping us relatively cool in spite of the hot sun....
...It’s a subject close to the heart of French jeweller Chaumet, which helped to realise the show and whose identity is deeply rooted in the botanical world; Marie-Étienne Nitot, the founder of the maison,...
...Corridors lead to several smaller spaces and a grand library with oak counters containing an archive of 600 drawings....
...Its garden is a relaxed mix of semi-formal beds with herbs, wild-flower areas, woven hazel and Welsh oak gates and garden furniture....
...This boom in demand has spurred consolidation in the sector, including the recent purchase of Oak Hill Advisors by Baltimore-based asset manager T Rowe Price....
...In her book Quirky, Schilling explores the traits and foibles of eight breakthrough innovators, including Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla and Elon Musk....
...She cites the example of a trader whose “French oak floorboards” were stuck on the Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal, because, although the oak was grown in France, it was processed in China....
...Melissa Morris, designer and founder of MétierReckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe. She’s very strong-minded and was uncompromising in her art....
...Its recent pattern, “Joli Bois” (meaning “pretty wood”), evokes a hunting scene from the age of Marie Antoinette....
...Schilling, who profiled innovators from Marie Curie to Elon Musk in her 2018 book Quirky says they are easy to spot, but hard to nurture....
...For Marie-Ange, the rookie, it’s her very first fire, and she can’t hide her excitement....
...Too many of the winemakers involved, particularly in St-Émilion, were still in thrall to a style I would call pastiche, wines too obviously marked by alcohol, sweetness, concentration and oak....
...The picture is in a carved oak frame with very delicate skeletal leaves, seed pods and grasses mounted on dark-green velvet....
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