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...Yet some contemporary follies are indeed the work of well-known talents: take Thomas Heatherwick’s much-maligned Vessel in New York’s Hudson Yards, which opened in 2019....
...The co-founder of Lévy Gorvy refers to an exhibition series dedicated to artist Mickalene Thomas, launching this autumn across its four spaces....
...It owns a vast collection of businesses that span insurers such as Geico, the Burlington Northern railroad, furniture stores, car dealerships and electric utilities....
...Its takeover of the Burlington Northern railroad was agreed in late 2009. A $5bn investment in Bank of America did not come until two years later....
...chief executive Thomas Kingsbury said on an earnings call....
...Susannah Lovis, 50 Burlington Arcade, W1 (susannahlovis.com) If I weren’t doing what I do, I’d be an architect or a landscape designer....
...Burlington chief executive Thomas Kingsbury said in a call with investors on Thursday that the company has prioritised “de-weathering” its business so as not to be so sensitive to Mother Nature, focusing...
...; and is a glutton, fuelled by salted caramel macaroons from Burlington Arcade, bottles of Haut-Brion and — a new discovery — fast food....
...Next year will be a milestone for the RA, which is celebrating 250 years since its foundation with an extensive rebuilding project linking its Burlington House home on Piccadilly with the Burlington Gardens...
...Photographs: Thomas Loof; Mario Testino; Devonshire Collection; Ben Murphy...
...Dylan Thomas offered cups of boiled string to visitors (“Weak or strong?”). William Walton hung a kipper on a Miró....
...Edward Luce is the FT’s chief US columnist and commentator Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, by Bernie Sanders, Profile RRP£14.99 / Thomas Dunne, RRP$27, 304 pages...
...The RA hopes the show, featuring 45 works by artists including Jackson Pollock, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe and Thomas Hart Benton, will throw new light on a formative period in American art, when artists...
...As early as 1610, Bess’s grandson the 2nd Earl of Devonshire embarked on the Grand Tour with his tutor, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes....
...“You will be able to go from an exhibition in Burlington House to a lecture in Burlington Gardens through the vaults of the building....
...It is facilitated by the coincidence of the entrances to the Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens buildings lining up almost exactly on axis....
...Furthermore, it stared straight into the face of St James’s Palace, as though the slimy politician were trying to eclipse the king, Thomas Wolsey-style....
...There are seven of them: two red, two cream, two black, and a green one loaned by the Earl and Countess of Burlington, heirs to the estate....
...Lord Burlington met “Kentino” in Italy, as did Thomas Coke of Holkham Hall, Norfolk, which Kent would eventually rebuild as a vast Veneto villa with a thumping Roman heart....
...His family set foot in Chelsea the year Henry VIII beheaded Sir Thomas More (local resident, c1525-1534)....
...considering the £700m sale of Channel 5, the free-to-air television broadcaster, which would net the media entrepreneur several times his original investment in the group in just four years, writes Dan Thomas...
...Thomas Mann wrote Buddenbrooks in Rome: when he was in Italy he became aware of being German....
...Perhaps the work of Thomas Chippendale (1718-79) featured among them, as the two men certainly collaborated....
...Thomas A Russo, of Gardner Russo & Gardner, says when he first became a shareholder in 1987 the company sold around 5m cases of Jack Daniels in the US, and just 50,000 in the rest of the world....
...The $39bn purchase of railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Berkshire’s largest ever, is a prime example....
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