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...Sport The French Open, Stade Roland-Garros The red clay courts welcome the best in the game from all over the globe for this annual Grand Slam tournament....
...The rest comes from visitors; fees, events and the support of many Friends worldwide (l.saintleger@vaux-le-vicomte.fr, for details)....
...My friend Patricia’s birthday parties were the best....
...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...“The combination of texture, humour and the trompe l’oeil design ‘hanging’ with game honours old traditions… For Janet and Cameron, God really is in the details....
...On her clay soil she finds the dark ash from bonfires to be a useful conditioner....
...The proliferation of these stones reflects a culture that delights in trompe l’oeil playfulness, whether in rock collecting or cuisine....
...Terra plant pot and vase, £146.22, connox.co.uk Louis Vuitton cord and leather Swing chair by Patricia Urquiola, £28,600 Guess cotton-mix top, £75 Gucci porcelain Herbarium Bee incense burner, £235...
...Dries Van Noten silk-organza embellished bralette, £511, mytheresa.com Chanel wood-pearl and strass clutch, POA Soho Home oak Bead table lamp, £250 Klaylife clay-beaded Barrel table lamp pendant, A$828...
...To this end, his latest project is entitled Breath of an Architect, an installation opening at the Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris this December....
...One attendee, artist Patricia Mitchell, ended up using a malachite-effect backdrop for the paper sculpture she created for Chris Beardshaw’s award-winning Chelsea garden in May....
...March 28 to June 30; further information and tickets here ‘Impressionisti: l’alba della modernità’ (Impressionists: The Dawn of Modernity), Museo della Fanteria In honour of the 150th anniversary of the...
...Website; Directions— Tim Auld L’Atelier Robuchon 6 Clarges Street, London W1J 8AE A particular joy in Paris is to sit at the counter of L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, watching in...
...One-hundred and eighty silver pipes feed into the guts of Realonda’s factory furnace, pumping in a nonstop supply of natural gas that burns in a 1,200C inferno, its scorching heat turning slices of soft clay...
...Watching potter Paul Mossman at work inspired him to invest in his own wheel and kiln, despite having no experience handling clay....
...Designed by a local architect, the property’s single-storey L-shape borders a south-facing garden....
...This week, the US electric-car maker roped in South Korean company L&F to contribute battery materials....
...Clay jars of architectural seed heads and wafting grasses and vases of flowers and greenery provide quiet altars to plant life against cool, lime-washed walls....
...That’s the “L”, our elevated train system that connects the north, south and west sides of the city. You can see the trains cutting through and over the streets – it’s just surreal....
...And the exquisite trompe-l’oeil shell “mirrors” and decorative frescoes in the main hotel corridor are the work of François Roux, who restored the ceilings in Louboutin’s Lisbon house....
...Jancis RobinsonAnd what about if a picnic wine for a light red that’s nicely chilled, could be Cinsault, C-I-N-S-A-U-L-T....
...In previous years, the prize has gone to artists working with textiles, clay, wood and lacquer....
...At the weekend the city will celebrate the Fête de l’Escalade, commemorating a victory over the Catholic duchy of Savoy in 1602....
...Aged 72, he stood to cheer Nijinsky’s explicitly sexual movements and gestures in the Ballets Russes’s L’après-midi d’un faune at its Paris premiere in 1912....
...L.S. Lowry has always been popular in the UK, but incredibly, not overseas....
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