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...They weren’t exactly hippies or flower people. He photographed smart people, and I don’t mean smart in the old-fashioned sense of the “smart set”. I mean brainy: brainy bohemians that had a style....
...From a classical, Chinese-inspired flower basket made from old arrow shafts combined with gold leaf and red and black lacquer by Tanabe Chikuunsai I, the dexterous plaiting, knotting, twining and wrapping...
...Delicate flowers appear to sprout out of her form....
...Instead, as its editor Susan Barba explains, this is “a field guide to the literary imagination”....
...Susan Fales-Hill, the lady of the dance Italian-born Susan Fales-Hill is an author, television writer and producer (she is currently a consulting writer/producer of Max’s And Just Like That…)....
...Every article began with her “holding court” at the Chelsea Flower Show. One day a tall poppy, the next — mulch....
...Four monumental modern scroll paintings of fruit and flowers by Qi Baishi (HK$18mn-HK$30mn) dominated the staircase wall....
...He would make little daisy-chain flower necklaces for me and draw pictures of himself on my hand like a tattoo. He had a wonderful sense of humour and liked to make fun of himself.”...
...The next combination for pot three and four is simpler — just two ingredients, three plants of Dahlia Waltzing Mathilda per pot along with three each of a classy pair of black-eyed Susans, Thunbergia alata...
...Contemporary paper-cut artist Jessica Pemberton was inspired by Delany’s work, while Susan Beech of A Petal Unfolds began her business on the back of finding a vintage paper-flower book on eBay....
...When Robert died in 1848, his daughter Susan kept the diary going. Campbell says she has felt a kinship with this fellow Susan, gardening, just as she has, while working on the diary....
...Susan Moore has traced the story of this extraordinary piece of history, as well as looking at the buoyant market for other coins that are similarly scarce....
...Students paid for nine days of lessons, says chief executive Susan Kay-Williams from her attic office, which looks out on to royal topiary....
...Smith is not against books being used for alternative purposes: “yoga block, doorstop, fly swat, flower press, deportment aid”....
...Saint Laurent wool double-breasted herringbone blazer, £2,175, net-a-porter.com Stööki gold-plated steel Orbit 2 earrings, £22.99 Emme Parsons nappa leather Susan slides, $395 Mad et Len Pot Pourri Apothicaire...
...Miniaturists send each other flowers with the message: “Something nice to come home to”. Which was very much the spirit of my grandfather’s hobby: it was meant to be fun....
...Bedecked with flowers and fruit – symbols of fertility – the finished pieces were used in tents as decorative dividers and floor spreads....
...The designers at Casa Casati settled on nightclub glamour to get through the gloomy days, and offer up the Discoteca table, with slickly shiny glass surfaces (including a lazy Susan centre) and legs like...
...Darwin’s affection for The Mount is clear from the fact that he continued to visit twice a year until his genial father’s death in 1848, when sister Susan took the reins....
...The other day she was helping a man called Oscar Brown, who owns the lot at the entrance to Idlewild, as he lay down mulch and planted flowers....
...Nasturtiums, Chilean glory vine, black-eyed Susan, morning glories and canary creepers are good candidates....
...One I keep returning to is an 18th-century number with flower-filled urns and swags in the most charming colourway of deep crimson and faded sky blue....
...After all, dependable cottage garden favourites like ox-eye daisies, aquilegias, crocosmia or black-eyed Susan take whatever the British climate throws at them....
...In 1964, New York photographer William John Kennedy was driving through Queens when he came across a field of 8ft-tall black-eyed Susan flowers....
...Works such as “Apples with Leaves” resemble more a Tree of Jesse than a conventional flower-piece....
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