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...The Apfels had private clients, such as Greta Garbo and Estée Lauder, for whom they offered interior design services....
...movement of a ballerina’s skirt. curio.space Tulipiere by Matthew Soloman, $18,000 Handmade by the late US ceramicist, with a metallic and blue glazed finish. 1stdibs.com Angled cork planter by Wiid...
...Stevens, whose stainless-steel forms sit at the intersection of architecture, interiors, furniture and art, and include sculptural ashtrays, floor bolsters and plinths....
...abundance of opulent textiles that dress the interior of this grandest of English country houses....
...The Ministry of State Security’s new video, entitled Who am I?...
...And, in the process, such considerations can open windows into our interior lives too....
...Kallas is listed as wanted in the Russian interior ministry’s database of suspects, independent news site Mediazona reported on Tuesday, alongside other Baltic politicians including Lithuania’s culture minister...
...They allow the user to personalise even the most prescriptive of interiors. And, while the other artefacts and furnishings might date, books themselves do not....
...Even decorative items, including in Japan the wooden dolls known as “Kokeshi”, are considered Mingei, taking on a role that traverses popular interior decoration object and kitschy folk craft souvenir....
...The three governments reached an agreement on that just before Christmas, the Romanian interior ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday....
...And, despite his resistance, he has been absorbed into the design canon as one of the greats, responsible for some of the most recognisable products of the postwar Italian design boom....
...About three dozen people were killed in three attacks on Monday and Wednesday, and Pakistan’s interior ministry said it had suspended mobile networks for the day in order to ensure “law and order”....
...Look at the tasteful designs for any Christmas interior, the style inspirations and the chichi magazine spreads, and you’ll find foraged twigs, swags of green, berries, candles, logs and lanterns....
...This was more than a change in temperature — it was a wholesale redesign of the cultural and social life of the interior....
...A McKinsey China website that was shut down in 2019 said that about 10 per cent of its clients in the country were government agencies or non-profit groups....
...Divisions blur between exterior and interior spaces and personal and public settings....
...I have a lot of art: I particularly love my 1919 painting of Winston Churchill by Eduardo Arroyo, one of the new realist Spanish painters. In front of it is the Joker’s desk from the 1989 Batman film....
...One of France’s 31 qualified architectes en chef des monuments historiques, a body of specialised architects attached to the Ministry of Culture, his state-designated dominion is the ritzy 8th arrondissement...
...“Pokrovsk, Novohrodivka and Myrnohrad came under fire,” Ukraine’s interior ministry Ihor Klymenko wrote on the Telegram messenger app, adding that six missiles struck the cities before dawn....
...In the first two months of 2024, almost 12,000 people arrived on the Canary Islands by boat, according to the Spanish interior ministry, compared to fewer than 2,000 in the same period last year....
...“I hope my work can be part of a routine,” she says, “from the first sip of coffee in the morning to dining with loved ones.”...
...Tonnac and Sauzay used subtle tricks to ensure the interior did not compete with the art: from sanding back the original parquet flooring to lighten the rooms to dulling down the gold leaf so it didn’t dominate...
...for the Maybourne Riviera hotel, Monte Carlo, this stool is available in a range of finishes. bryanosullivan.com Tale sofa by Shepel Furniture, £18,450 An opulent design with an unusual beadwork frame...
...Since her teens, the English interior designer Flora Soames has scoured Provençal flea markets, East Anglian antiques shops, car-boot sales, auction houses and dealers in search of decorative treasures,...
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