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...For House & Home’s Christmas special, we asked a group of designers and makers to share with us their most meaningful decoration — and the many stories they contain....
...woo-woo, though she hails originally from Ohio....
...The largest island in the group, Büyükada, has a ferry building built in the kiosk style and a charming tile-decorated café, while 19th-century villas spill down the slopes of the hills to the sea....
...Photographs: John Glover/Alamy; RM Floral/Alamy; Gillian Plummer/Gap Gardens; Rob Whitworth/Alamy; Clive Nichols/Gap Gardens...
...Pierredon’s garden relativises my hard-won garden at home. In the beds of the Abbey’s big parterre, great drifts of blue perovskia and lavender are the main floral display....
...A polyphonic novel about desire, memory, change and the lost pleasures of walking around Istanbul’s long-gone neighbourhoods....
...Andrew Hill Economics Inequality: What Can be Done?...
...The narrative poem plays delightfully with form, at times approaching stream of consciousness in the vivid interplay of memory and dialogue....
...Thus Matisse, turbulent creator of modern art’s greatest hard-won images of serenity: many of them wonderfully assembled here....
...One group of stalagmites is called the “Garden of the Gods” after a famed Colorado Springs rock formation; another pinnacle is a “Statue of Liberty” (you can’t get away from it)....
...Or perhaps too many Americans have bad memories of clunky old cars....
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