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...Its West End retail assets enjoyed a 1.3 per cent value bump thanks to an uptick in rental activity in Victoria, and its hotel assets only recorded a 3 per cent value drop....
...One attendee, artist Patricia Mitchell, ended up using a malachite-effect backdrop for the paper sculpture she created for Chris Beardshaw’s award-winning Chelsea garden in May....
...Urban Decay and Victoria Beckham are inspired by artist tools, creating liners as precise as a Winsor & Newton paintbrush....
...I’ve only ever read four books: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C Douglas and Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. And now this....
...Along with Eldon Road and Cottesmore Gardens, Victoria Road is part of the De Vere Conservation area, a mix of late Georgian houses, early Victorian villas and later Victorian terraces towards Gloucester...
...On the off chance I ever meet Victoria Beckham, Natalie Massenet or Gwyneth Paltrow, I already have the perfect talking point picked out – their pantries. Have you seen them?...
...As well as closures of roads, bridges and other transport facilities, police said drones were prohibited across Hong Kong and in Shenzhen, while a no-fly zone covered areas across the central Victoria Harbour...
...August 17-20, greenman.net All Points East, UK With a diverse range of genres, this east London rager offers something for everyone across two weekends in Victoria Park....
...The $500mn vessel has been moored west of the city’s Victoria Harbour. The yacht, which sails under the Russian flag, left Vladivostok last week, according to Marine Traffic, a tracking website....
...focus on not knowing what I am doing while my body carefully and slowly paints these colours next to each other,” writes Johanson in Considering Unknow Know With What Is, And (published by New York gallery Mitchell-Innes...
...A grey cabinet — repainted several times — is now part of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s permanent collection....
...Gallerist Arthur de Villepin: ‘I’ve just had a run with Van Gogh’ Gia Coppola, film director and winemakerBook: Wine Girl: A Sommelier’s Tale of Making it in the Toxic World of Fine Dining by Victoria James...
...Nguyen Khac Giang, a scholar at New Zealand’s Victoria University of Wellington, said President Xi Jinping’s CPTPP gambit, if it comes good, would be “a disaster” for the US....
...Here, the fashion is treated with the kind of care and attention you’d expect of an heirloom destined for the Victoria & Albert Museum....
...The annual candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong typically attracts tens of thousands of people to remember those who died in Beijing on June 4 1989, when the People’s Liberation Army crushed protests...
...Tom Mitchell in Singapore, Edward White in Seoul, Demetri Sevastopulo and Lauren Fedor in Washington, Stefania Palma in Montreal and Sun Yu in Beijing...
...From Hong Kong’s Victoria Peak to London’s Kensington Palace Gardens and New York’s Upper East Side, they snatched up the world’s most expensive properties....
...Victoria Miro has a new painting by the Iran-born Ali Banisadr, “The Changing Past” (2021), that charts how, throughout history, cultures have toppled to accommodate new beliefs....
...Shed a tear for the beautiful and historic Victoria Tower Gardens about to be altered beyond recognition to make way for a controversial Holocaust Memorial....
...About the same time, silk merchant John Mitchell built a smaller version, Scout Hall near Halifax, in Yorkshire, with 365 panes of glass; it still stands, albeit in need of restoration....
...Gia Coppola, film directorIn Wine Girl by Victoria James, I loved reading about James’s personal journey, working her way up to become one of the top female sommeliers....
...Organisers had called for a “candles everywhere” memorial after the police refused to grant a permit for the Victoria Park event....
...The Mitchell Institute, a think-tank at Victoria University, forecasts the number of foreign students will halve to 290,000 by July, compared with pre-Covid-19 levels, if travel restrictions remain in place...
...Leslie Wexner, the founder of L Brands, which owns Victoria’s Secret, sold $89m of the company’s stock — which has more than tripled since the rally began....
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