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...“I’d never actually designed a watch before, but as soon as I started, I couldn’t stop,” recalls Ralph. “I ended up with around 50 sketches. We didn’t know which ones to choose.”...
...“She was a very active artist, she had exhibitions all over the world and won some awards, but it didn’t make her famous.”...
...“You don’t propose marriage after three or four dates but you can’t do that with a new CEO or CFO. It became very clear it wasn’t a good fit,” he said....
...Paris, she says, “is exciting, but we shouldn’t talk about one [city] versus the other,” echoing a growing refrain....
...The late David Hicks, interior designer to the British royals and US showbiz, had multiple hawthorn cubes in Versailles tubs at his Oxfordshire garden....
...The main thing, as mentioned, is that it’s a real luxury to have a room of one’s own — don’t let it go to waste!...
...What first name is shared by the American comedians Maher, Hicks and Murray? Click here for the answers...
...His soldiers are “provincials, nobodies, hicks . . . a bunch of loudmouth bastards who claimed to have come in the name of an emperor they never had a hope of meeting”....
...One of his predecessors, William Joynson-Hicks, assured Stormont’s prime minister that “I know my place” and “don’t propose to interfere”....
...In the early years of the brand, Burch looked to the sophisticated exuberance of her parents’ wardrobes in the 1960s and ’70s, as well as tastemakers such as Lee Radziwill and David Hicks....
...My guess is that the new boss says “This isn’t what I expected” to which colleagues reply “You aren’t what we had expected either.”...
...“Green Bonds haven’t flourished quite the way that the government may have wanted....
...The investment advice here really is to ignore rating agencies, buy anything that’s low-priced and doesn’t trade much, then look to sell it wherever oenophilic hicks and greedy yokels gather....
...After the customary cappuccino or G&T mixed with local Bucks Brothers Gin, and some time exploring the warren of rooms, clients start to feel very much at home in the Souster & Hicks kingdom....
...One also can’t go wrong with a bit of embroidery in the bathroom....
...You can’t recover stuff that you can’t prove you owned in the first place.”...
...In the long term, I don’t see why Brazil can’t break into the top five leagues by turnover.” For now, that remains a way off....
...Costin’s partner suggested orange for the kitchen but they couldn’t settle on a shade....
...Consider a marble-topped table with serried ranks of mixer cans, bottles and glasses à la David Hicks, or a bar cart or butler’s tray, which takes up barely any room at all....
...“It was important that this be a very comfortable [place], nothing stiff, where you don’t know where to sit.”...
...“I can’t let that happen, I have to fill the bucket again because I do believe sales are going to soften.” Delinquencies are also rising as more people fall behind on payments....
...Ane Vernon, head of education at law firm Payne Hicks Beach, said such cases were not easy to bring....
...“Just because a bathroom has to be practical doesn’t mean it can’t be as decorative as the rest of your home,” she says....
...This is the route I went down when I commissioned Beaudesert to make my own bed a few years ago, inspired by David Hicks....
...I love the story about my all-time hero, David Hicks, installing a room. It being May, he arranged Lily of the Valley in a pretty jug....
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