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...error Slovakia faces a knife-edge presidential election tomorrow, in what analysts say will determine whether Robert Fico’s government wins an unrestricted monopoly on state management, writes Barbara Erling...
...On Wednesday the Czech environment minister Peter Hladik also informed his Polish counterpart about more dead fish found floating in the Oder, which originates in the Czech mountains....
...Head east until you reach the thatched house and restaurant of Peter Liep’s Hus, where you turn north....
...For an ever-growing audience in Manhattan and Brooklyn hooked on Scandinavian designers, whether household names like Arne Jacobsen and Hans Wegner, or insider choices like Erling Torvits or Henry Kjærnulf...
...Wilde (“dying beyond my means” at the Hotel d’Alsace in Paris), Coco Chanel (The Ritz, Paris), Bob Dylan (The Washington Square Hotel), Marilyn Monroe and Howard Hughes (both at The Beverly Hills Hotel), Peter...
...Peter Marsh London SW11, UK...
...Levi) or the Dane Jens Peter Jacobsen’s Flaubertian Niels Lyhne (1880; number 22; Tiina Nunnally)....
...This is an edited extract from ‘Silence, In the Age of Noise’ by Erling Kagge, translated by Becky L Crook (Viking)....
...“It’s the classic cliché of everyone wants their home to look like a hotel,” says Peter Chipcase, chief communications and strategy officer for Soho House. “Only the style of the hotel has changed.”...
...Eva-Maria Westbroek held her own more successfully, and her voluptuous soprano did justice to Jens Peter Jacobsen’s rapturous poetry....
...In March Peter O’Neill, PNG’s prime minister, said all SABL leases had been cancelled and were illegal and that “foreigners” operating the leases should be sent home....
...Magnussen, Jacobsen’s stepson, was invited to design the EM77....
...They symbolise the children of brewer Carl Jacobsen, who lived in the main building from 1880 to 1890....
...Additional reporting by Jeevan Vasagar in Berlin ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: Reform proposals could be based on analysis rather than guesswork / From Brian J Jacobsen...
...Slideshow photographs: Birgitta Wolfgang/Sisters Agency; Theis Poulsen; Jeppe Sørensen; Brahl; Peter M. Madsen...
...As the piece weaves its sumptuous way through Jens Peter Jacobsen’s Danish saga, Schoenberg’s harmonic language evolves from Wagner’s Tristan via Bach to the nightmare starkness of Pierrot Lunaire, a hallucinatory...
...Despite fluctuations in other collecting areas, mid-century Scandinavian design endures, says Peter Loughrey, founder and director of LAMA....
...to Arne Jacobsen’s stacking chair – it is shaped into more than a nostalgia fest by showcasing a fascinating pluralism of approaches....
...www.collectivedesignfair.com … Peter Jensen, fashion designer ‘Scandinavian Design’ by Charlotte and Peter Fiell, published by Taschen on April 20 I’m slightly obsessed with the Danish architect and...
...Jacobsen’s original version doesn’t have a slot in the back....
...There are some famous names here (Arne Jacobsen, Jørn Utzon) but mostly these are just unpretentious, deceptively simple houses. Almost perfect....
...But perhaps favourite of all, Arne Jacobsen’s 1957 Table Lamp, sleekly contemporary, absolutely poised....
...Its designer – Peter Ellis – and the building were so vehemently dismissed by critics that Ellis abandoned architecture. It is now recognised as one of the pioneering moments of modernism....
...‘Terence Conran: The Way We Live Now’, Design Museum, London, until March 4 2012, www.designmuseum.org peter.aspden@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/aspden...
...Danes fell especially in love with Jacobsen’s signature curvy chairs and they are still cherished....
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