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...When the FT’s North American correspondent Patti Waldmeir decided to learn more about the Underground Railroad, a US network of safe houses and abolitionists on whom slaves could depend while escaping the...
...Patti Waldmeir, the FT’s North America correspondent and cynophile, will be well known to regular HTSI readers for her candid chronicles from the Midwest aboard a camper van....
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...Of his advisory MO, he says: “Ninety per cent of the time we stop our clients buying art.” fineartgroup.com See also: Patti Wong, who brings 30+ years of experience – and collector contacts – from Sotheby...
...Patti Waldmeir, esteemed FT writer and former North America correspondent, barely requires the proverbial pot to piss in when she’s heading off on hols: she just uses a spare cooler box, as observed in her...
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...Jo Ellison, who takes the helm of the FT’s How To Spend It supplement in September, considers how we spend what we value in the modern era....
...The US crafting industry, worth $44bn in 2016, according to the US Craft Industry Alliance, would also be hard hit by what Jo-Ann Fabrics, one of America’s largest craft retailers, calls a “Made in America...
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...Teller first became aware of Mapplethorpe’s work by studying Patti Smith’s album sleeves....
...jo.ellison@ft.com, @jellison Letter in response to this article One woman, two feet / From D W Sutherland...
...Patti Smith Another style icon with a distinctly Tolkien-like appearance, the 68-year-old poet, singer and author smashed it at Glastonbury, where she completed a tour of her 1975 album Horses (and presented...
...“Wearing leopard print is a way of saying, ‘I’m a woman who is not afraid to be seen’ in a culture where, once you’re seen, you’re critiqued in a million different ways,” says Jo Weldon, a cultural historian...
...Jo Walton, pharmaceutical analyst at Credit Suisse, says: “It seems clear that the breadth of the investigation into marketing practices is likely to slow growth for all of the majors.”...
...M Train, by Patti Smith, Bloomsbury, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$25 The sequel to Just Kids opens with Smith in a café with a notebook, wondering how to write about nothing....
...Jo Zhou, manager of Ju Geng, says the popularity of luxury thrift stores has more to do with growing sophistication than with desperation....
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