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...He will offer, among other finds, a drawing, “They Say the Flowers But Sleep in Winter — Awaiting The Spring”, by Violet Brunton (1878-1951), an aspiring sculptor who turned after the first world war to...
...The same year, Neel encountered Virginia Miller, who was wearing cowboy boots, and asked her to sit for a portrait. “She said, ‘You have to wear the same outfit,’” Miller recounts to Hoban....
...At the far end of the store is what Harris calls “the pantry”, which stocks a small range of loose tea leaves created in collaboration with Postcard Teas: Lemon, Rose, Smoke, Violet leaf, Morocco and – Harris...
...In Oud Eclat (£150), Miller Harris has done a topsy-turvy oud that will appeal even to sceptics, putting the oud up top, with sugar, balsam and nutmeg at its heart....
...Howard and Hugh Miller’s Alder Hey Urban Foraging Station is a stylised riff on orchards and meadows filled with cow parsley, wild carrot and meadow buttercups among edible herbs....
...Not that Mr Miller is a shrinking violet.He is vocal on industry issues such as the push for fee transparency and is sharply critical of the UK financial regulator....
...Her feminine Violet Vanity Set is available at Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, Southwark, for £4,770. Another maker to defy the masculine image of saw-wielding machismo is Isabelle Moore....
...asks Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey, founder of LA beauty boutique Violet Grey: “Give yourself extra time to get comfortable in your look....
...shopping heiress Marie-Chantal Miller, Martha de Henriquez — is garish, slapdash, without interest....
...imported in the 18th century from China and now crossbred in fin-de-siècle hues of “old gold, old pink, Havana cigar, carob, otter-skin, copper cauldron”, is traced in paintings by James Tissot, Dennis Miller...
...Miniature poodles called Daisy and Violet and they are nine years old....
...Mr Bryant-Heron told the jury in his closing speech that Ms Casburn was “no shrinking violet” but her motivation in making the phone call was money as there was “no resource issue”....
...Alan Miller is not exactly a shrinking violet. He’s a highly articulate investment manager whose various campaigns are frequently reported in this newspaper....
...“We had the florists Scarlet and Violet in here at the crack of dawn. You see the floral shirts the waiters are wearing? Our creative director was up all night making them.”...
...Les Bulles D’Agathe (£15), his violet-infused bubbles were unveiled at this year’s World Expo, currently running in Shanghai....
...A one-time poet, he now devotes himself to his whiskey, he explains, while his wife Violet takes pills. On cue, Violet appears, rattling with prescription drugs....
...I made a scrapbook for Jed Miller, my architect, full of clippings from architecture and interiors magazines....
...The overall corporate color, violet, was chosen to represent nobility and strength....
...Other names in the field include Jo Malone, Miller Harris and L’Artisan Parfumeurs....
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