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Robin Lane Fox
Notes from a small vegetable garden
...The RHS mark of approval appears on Mr Fothergill’s seed packets of the hybrid cucumber Emilie, described as “succulent” and “smooth-skinned”: it is too bland for a good talatourie....
April 20, 2024
Travel
Postcard from Paris: the cinematic afterlife of a Métro ‘ghost station’
...Today, it’s applied to a bland, grey suburb of north-east Paris and a Métro station serving quiet line 11 and even quieter 3 bis....
August 2, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT Globetrotter
New York’s best new restaurants of 2023
...With his early career spent in the kitchens of L’Arpège in Paris and San Domenico in Emilia-Romagna, Café Carmellini is the theatrical culmination of exquisite French and Italian cuisine — think Dover sole...
December 28, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Cecily Brown at the Metropolitan Museum — guts, gore and the passage of time
...Brown surely absorbed some of her taste for the morbid trompe l’oeil from Salvador Dalí, who liked to superimpose dewy female forms on ominous skulls....
April 21, 2023
Letter
Letter: Religious intolerance is not what threatens free speech
...It may be that to protest doesn’t quite match Voltaire’s “écrasez l’infâme” (crush infamy), quoted by Schama....
October 7, 2022
Watches & Jewellery
The rise of British micro watch brands
...“It proved to be a real struggle to find anywhere suitable in Perth, where I was working in a bland old industrial building,” says Fraser....
November 4, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Travel
Portland chill: a slick new retreat atop a Dorset cliff
...The interior is a little Scandi-bland, a sea of mid-century style grey soft-furnishings and blond wood. But it does have the advantage of not detracting from the drama outside....
April 25, 2022
Luke Edward Hall
Blinds don’t have to be bland
...Nicky Haslam’s trompe l’oeil Shutter Stripe fabric, for example, always looks fantastic when made into blinds....
June 11, 2021
ReviewMusic
Royal Opera and London Philharmonic offer different approaches to pandemic-era opera
...By contrast, Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges, no ordinary opera, does not get ordinary treatment....
November 24, 2020
Lunch with the FT
McDonald’s Chris Kempczinski: ‘Our menu is very Darwinian’
...In the 2014 film Kingsman, Samuel L Jackson tells Colin Firth that a McDonald’s cheeseburger “goes great with this ’45 Lafite”....
November 27, 2020
Asian prime property
Hong Kong houseboat owners face huge financial losses
...Rising up to three storeys high, the Discovery Bay houseboats vary from 1,200 to 3,000 sq ft and are kitted out with all mod cons, home offices, sundecks and the sort of hefty dining tables and L-shaped...
November 7, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
The Outsider, Print Room, London — Ben Okri’s thoughtful take on Camus
...Albert Camus’s seminal 1942 study of alienation The Outsider (L’Étranger) is not an easy fit for stage....
September 21, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Tomma Abts, Serpentine Sackler Gallery — a kaleidoscope of cryptic jewels
...Trompe l’oeil is everywhere....
June 18, 2018
ReviewFT Magazine
La Tour d’Argent, Paris: last bastion of the best French wines
...Between him serving us champagne, a bottle of 1996 R&L Legras and a bottle of 1999 Cornas from Thierry Allemand, we learn this is not the case....
January 12, 2018
The Big ReadJohn Gapper
How millennials became the world’s most powerful consumers
...Millennials will often experiment with edgier brands such as Urban Decay, which was acquired by L’Oréal in 2012....
June 6, 2018
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Kathleen Baird-Murray
Reclaiming the scalp
...For Cara Delevingne, the answer has been to sport a bald head, a sure standout amid a sea of somewhat bland-looking long-haired lovelies....
June 2, 2017
Chinese politics & policy
L’Oréal shuts Hong Kong stores over China ‘kowtow’ protests
...L’Oréal did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
June 8, 2016
Lunch with the FTLunch with the FT: the best interviews of 2017
‘Where is the salmon?’ 12 courses with actress Isabelle Huppert
...After such a good start, the mozzarella and strawberries salad feels bland, but we take comfort in the mighty whole salmon — over one metre long, from Scotland, cooked in a crust of salt — to which we are...
July 28, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
OCD Love, Sadler’s Wells, London — review
...The score, mixed live by musician and DJ Ori Lichtik, provides the movement with a bland, relentless techno pulse....
September 20, 2016
Chinese politics & policy
Multinationals under pressure over Asia taboos
...But while Hong Kongers accused it of “kowtowing”, analysts say it is little wonder L’Oréal, the French cosmetics group that owns Lancôme, gave in to threats of a boycott in China, its second-biggest market...
June 10, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
L’elisir d’amore, Metropolitan Opera, New York — ‘The crowd went wild for Vittorio Grigolo’
...Almost single-voicedly, the lively Italian tenor brought distinction to an otherwise drab L’elisir d’amore on Thursday. The Met, not incidentally, yawned with empty seats....
March 13, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth’, by AO Scott
...This deceptively bland self-description is actually as good a way as any of getting at what makes Scott’s criticism such a pleasure to read....
March 4, 2016
News in-depthDesign
From sink to swank — In defence of Britain’s brutal estates
...The Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, on the edge of the Périphérique in the 19th Arrondissement was a bland, generic 1960s tower....
January 15, 2016
Life & Arts
Panoramas: the perfect subject for Marseille’s flagship museum
...Juan Muñoz’s “Balcon/nes” is an isolated balcony railing incongruously mounted to transform a bland white wall into a space for contemplation....
November 20, 2015
Great Place to Meet
Hermitage, Jakarta
...The L’Avenue restaurant offers a mix of souped-up local dishes such as fried rice and standard international fare. The Hermitage Lounge has coffee, alcoholic drinks and a dedicated cigar room....
November 17, 2014

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