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...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...The UK prime minister on Saturday met Albanese and Ardern at Chequers, her country residence in Buckinghamshire....
...True to the building’s hybrid hotel-residence history, these still range hugely in size, from queen-bed studios to two-bedroom pieds-à-terre....
...When RMR sought to buy more, the hotel chain instead offered some Courtyard by Marriott and Residence Inn buildings instead....
...ebullient Man from U.N.C.L.E. style. thehoxton.com, from €160; marriott.co.uk, opens in September, from €400 In with the inn crowd And, for the 2022 wishlist, a new address in Australia: a sweet little...
...In March, Marriott announced details of 17 new long-stay properties across its Element Hotels, Residence Inn by Marriott, and TownePlace Suites brands — all with kitchens and living spaces....
...The company’s extended stay chain Residence Inn had the highest occupancy rate in the group during the second quarter, at about 40 per cent....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Not that there’s anything hairshirted about the way Iniala’s 23 rooms, suites and residences have been furnished; the grandest even have plunge pools....
...Briefly Whitbread confirmed the acquisition of 19 hotels in Germany this morning, expanding the presence of Premier Inn in the country....
...Omm Inn, from £70; omminn.com....
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...“But almost everything requires renovation,” warns Smith. On the Baroque coast, asking prices are on average 18 per cent lower than in 2007, according to E&V....
...As it approached the new millennium, Whitbread was brewing beer and spotting such literary talent as Zadie Smith and John Lanchester in its eponymous Book Awards....
...In London, Claridge’s has an official “choreographer-in-residence”....
...A director Tristram Hunt and Sir Charles Saumarez Smith, chief executive of the Royal Academy....
...AIG’s connection with Stowe dates back to the 1940s, when company founder Cornelius V Starr was a frequent visitor....
...At Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the stars are out in force: Will Smith, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Russell Crowe and, by video-link, Tom Cruise and Vin Diesel....
...19 The designer of the suit was the subject of an exhibition at the V&A in London in 2015, which proved the most popular in the museum’s history....
...After Waterloo, parliament gifted him £700,000 to build a new “Waterloo Palace” — a country residence to rival Blenheim. Yet his palace was never built....
...This is also home to a Sheraton, Hotel Capital, Holiday Inn and Marriott, all serving demand generated by the corporate parks nearby....
...In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2. X, Ed Sheeran 3. Wanted on Voyage, George Ezra 4. 1989, Taylor Swift 5....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Tate & Lyle: alison.smith@ft.com...
...Pubs in London are trading well – but property prices are doing even better, leading developers to target pubs for redevelopment as residences....
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