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...A cool $50mn has been spent transforming its 68 rooms, now an essay in white oak and woven textiles in homage to the town’s Bauhaus associations....
...Claire Wrathall was a guest of Claridge’s (claridges.co.uk) Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend...
...“He wasn’t a showman — he was much more interested in ideas,” said Shane Kenny, Bruton’s press secretary during his 1994-97 term at the helm of what was dubbed the “Rainbow Coalition”, which included the...
...You might want to add grated Granny Smith and white radish like Fitzrovia pub The George. Or take a leaf out of the Claridge’s book and upgrade to crab, lobster and caviar....
...It’s a reason why you can now generate an image of a skyscraper in the style of Picasso within seconds, or that meme that went viral earlier this year of Pope Francis in a white Balenciaga puffer jacket....
...At its centre is Oceania House, clad in white tiles imported from Glasgow. Seyfi Seyit is waiting for me....
...Website; Directions— Edwin Heathcote Claridge’s Restaurant Claridge’s, Brook Street, London W1K 4HR The restaurant formerly known as Davies and Brook, which shuttered in 2021 due to a disagreement between...
...Israel: Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, will visit Israel to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and the Jewish state’s war cabinet to discuss the latest...
...The visible signifiers of luxury hotels — the liveried butlers, valets and concierges, the cars and bellboys — are coming back (the Peninsula even has “pages” dressed all in white and with white gloves and...
...One day I wore three distinct outfits, going from a dusty blue Madewell suit for a TV interview to a voluminous floral Staud gown for tea at Claridge’s, and finally a white lace Nap Dress by Hill House Home...
...Rare Tea Company, which supplies Noma and Claridge’s, upped its caffeine-free range when founder Henrietta Lovell discovered even she could no longer handle her evening cup of oolong....
...Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy at financial services company AMP, said there was a “knee-jerk positive response” to the deal, but attention now turned to whether Congress could pass the measures...
...The sober hall near the Bank of England, with its black-and-white-chequered marble floor and its dark wood counters now has the air of ancient Rome after the sack, with City workers baying for cocktails....
...The 42-year-old CEO of Rosewood Hotel Group – which in 2017 assumed management of this Parisian institution, commissioned by Louis XV in 1758 – is wearing a fawn-coloured Saint Laurent blazer over a white...
...The flat white I order at Pallet’s Robson Square café (on Howe Street) is a near perfect specimen: strong, flavourful, impossibly creamy....
...Unusually often executed in monochrome, they echoed the boom time of silent cinema and the black and white screen....
...It was originally gold, but I had it painted blue with a white pinstripe and a small white dove on the gas tank. I’m usually more of a vintage bike person, but this one is spectacular....
...Floral designer Shane Connolly first discovered these special cultivars as an apprentice at florists Pulbrook & Gould in the ’80s....
...Read more The Big Read When private equity investors put nearly half a billion dollars into Vice Media in 2017, co-founder Shane Smith hinted that the cash would help his digital media company achieve...
...He turned to Qatar as the “white knight” to resolve the ownership impasse. Qatar wanted to own 100 per cent of the hotels, so struck an unusual deal that is only now being tested....
...newsletter What the Vice bankruptcy says about private equity Icahn vs Illumina The Cayman Islands takes on Singapore and Hong Kong Vice, TPG and a private equity reckoning More than a decade ago, by Shane...
...Inside a bitter dispute over Claridge’s If all seems calm amid the white tablecloths and fresh flowers of the dining room at Claridge’s hotel in Mayfair, it’s less so underneath....
...There’s one in Claridge’s foyer, for instance. They’re not very efficient: when unlit, cold air comes down the chimney; when lit, much of the heat is lost....
...Automated email excerpt Blacks are more stupid than whites. Madhumita Murgia Bostrom wrote in that email. Automated email excerpt I like that sentence, and I think it’s true....
...Terraced rows of oversized loungers overlook the pool, divided by sheer white curtains for privacy....
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