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...Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger Allen Lane £25/St Martin’s Press $30, 288 pages Clive Cookson is the FT’s senior science writer Join our online book group on Facebook at...
...Violet-tinged floats sit on the surface and catch the wind; below, the tentacles can reach as far as 30m, with venom to kill fish and deliver a nasty sting to humans....
...Upstairs, the classic T-shirts are piled next to bright, fuzzy patchwork fleeces and branded knitwear in off-shades of violet and lime green....
...It doesn’t ever really go away, says González Martín....
...Tredgett, who also designs furnishings, enjoys absorbing influences from art or fashion: a rug based on an antique tile, a singing violet paint colour inspired by a 1980s jacket — so that pieces “are hard...
...It’s by Martin Creed. Alex Israel contributed the enormous trompe-l’oeil mural depicting birds of paradise plants along the main stair....
...The poet-prince’s descriptions, written in his 16th-century memoir The Baburnama, make the land sound like a paradise of wild violets, tulips, roses and pomegranates....
...“I wanted it to smell like a gorgeous floristry shop; flowery, but with a modern twist,” says Harris of the blend of cyclamen, lilac, jasmine, iris — and Pompadour’s own preferred notes of violet and orange...
...Martin quotes a letter written in 1879 by a Catherine Starbuck of Nantucket that sums up the “seed fever” I succumb to every winter....
...Designs are inspired by “the interiors in Eric Rohmer films and those of favourite artists: Agnes Martin, Chris Ofili and Tal R”....
...The pair still work according to the colour theory they learnt at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art....
...In Paris how can I have missed the Parc Clichy-Batignolles — Martin Luther King in the north-west 17th arrondissement? He sees it as “a lesson in multiculturalism and multiplicity of uses”....
...White and purple tobacco plants, scarlet and white flax, violet-purple and yellow petunias: if you choose your seeds and devise your own mixtures, the summer is so much more fun....
...any romantic comedy in which the sassy black person moves in with the white people and teaches them how to live their lives in color and put some bass in their voices, only Steve Martin wasn’t in it, and...
...Martin’s quotation: “Get enough light and you levitate.”...
...“It was quite a dark flat, and I was amazed by the difference the lights made, whether you had violet lights on the floor, or orange lights on the ceiling.” Light creates mood....
...She came to London in 1911, became a member of the RPS and joined her fellow autochrome enthusiasts, Agnes Warburg and Violet Blaiklock, in the Society of Colour Photographers....
...He appointed a principal, Robert Ingham, a meticulous craftsman, who was joined later by design tutors Guy Martin, Alan Deal, Chris Rose and Gordon Duggan....
...Photographs: Clive Nichols/Getty Images; Martin Hughes-Jones/Alamy; John Glover/Alamy; Jonathan Buckley/Gap Photos...
...conkerspirit.co.uk Rock Rose Working out on the North Sea oil rigs, Martin Murray was more used to the distillation of gas and oil than spirits....
...“He knows what he’s doing and he is very astute,” says Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP — and a board member of Bloomberg Philanthropies. “He is not a shrinking violet, that’s for sure....
...I prefer being comfortable, so most of the time I’m in flats – loafers from Church’s or Céline, Oxfords by Maison Martin Margiela or sneakers by Nike....
...Glass tubs, tinted in a seemingly glowing violet, are grouped across the stone floor like jellies just out of their moulds....
...That led to a robust exchange between Mr Woodward and Gene Sperling, the Obama team’s economic adviser, who could never be described as a shrinking violet....
...Member invitee Maison Martin Margiela is also Belgian. Elie Saab, granted, is Lebanese, but he’s the exception....
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