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...Mural paintings from the Hermitage of the Vera Cruz de Maderuelo (Room 51C) Finally — but only if you like reverse chronology — a small wonder....
...“We are saying 97 per cent peat-free, and [the peat is] in the smallest pot,” says co-founder Kate Brown. “But we’re striving to be 100 per cent.”...
...The first downward shift was in 1989, when I quit my job, climbed into my little brown Mini and drove all the way from London to Ibiza....
.... £44 for 30ml, inikaorganic.com RéVive Glow Elixir Hydrating Radiance Oil Arguably anything from RéVive, founded 25 years ago by reconstructive surgeon Dr Gregory Brown and employing Nobel Prize-winning...
...Carola Long, FT Deputy Fashion Editor Jones Road, The Lip Tint in Valencia Orange, £24, jonesroadbeauty.com Halfway between lip balm and lipstick, this new product from Bobbi Brown’s clean beauty line...
...(Website; Directions) Native at Browns (Mayfair) 39 Brook Street, London W1 Fashionistas and foodies will be fighting it out to bag a banquette at Browns boutique’s new restaurant, which opens its lush...
...Like all obsessions, this one began innocently enough, with the acquisition of a small aloe vera....
...We’d sing Dame Vera Lynn songs and hug all those neighbours we’d glimpsed during the weekly NHS clap. It didn’t quite pan out like that, of course....
...She draws from literature (Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, Precious Bane by Mary Webb), music (the campy patriotism of Vera Lynn) and, of course, other artists....
...Ink is already looking at different approaches, talking to Virgin Atlantic about the possibility of a single-use newspaper to replace its excellent Vera magazine....
...Then a follow-up call to Vera Songwe, head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and Tito Mboweni, South Africa’s finance minister, to formulate our strategy for debt relief and commiserate on the downgrading...
...fashion’s most talked-about brands – by editors and buyers, who gushed over her most recent show, and also by those who saw, last August, the photograph of Katie Holmes hailing a taxi in Manhattan wearing a brown...
...The bee orchid, for example, is a gorgeous soft pink colour with a velvety chocolate brown and yellow lip that looks uncannily like a female bee. Marvellous!...
...panels of oil on canvas depicting kabuki performers. mayfairgallery.com Canyon Screen by Brabbu Design Forces, €14,110 Referencing the Grand Canyon, the wooden screen is clad in brass with an aged red and brown...
...“Poor Mrs May really has a lot of catching up to do,” says Mark Malloch Brown, a British diplomat and former deputy UN secretary-general under Kofi Annan....
...From $14,500; espasso.com The last item of clothing I added to my wardrobe was a brown and orange check coat from Joseph....
...In 1912, a group known as “the Brown Women” had walked from Edinburgh to London to gather support for a petition to the prime minister (one shinned up a telegraph pole to get a signature from an engineer...
...Not only does it block out the sun, it lightens existing brown marks even while you’re exposed to it. Protection and treatment in one....
...A beachy shingle covered the catwalk at Vera Wang, much to the guests’ chagrin: “It’s ruining our new fashion week heels Vera!”...
...Those that are cut from semi-ripe wood, “ginger-brown, not brown” according to the camellia expert John Price, will root well in an acid compost in a mist propagator....
...In the recently released Testament of Youth, in which she stars as Vera Brittain, she is described as “all brown and soft, just like a linnet”....
...John Murray Brown is the FT’s Midlands correspondent...
...“I am not a hash brown – and I’ll have absolutely nothing to do with ham!” he screams at the talking Christmas lights who rather fancy a fry-up....
...The edifice belonged to Czech-born collector Vera Neumann who, with her husband Lotar, fled communist Czechoslovakia after the second world war....
...He studied mathematics at King’s College Cambridge, while a 1971 marriage to Vera West produced a son and four daughters....
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