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...And at the centre is Walter’s granite Bernarda....
...This Rolling Stone profile does a good job of explaining the drama....
...The finished diamonds are destined for a Blue Book high-jewellery collection, and very likely for a design by Jean Schlumberger, the French high-society artist-jeweller, taken on by Tiffany’s then chair Walter...
...Martin Ford, ‘The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment’ (2015) Favourite: Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson....
...Designs always begin with a stone. And a designer must approach that stone with “humility”, Karachi says. “The stone is perfect....
...Only one work flew far ahead of expectations: Agnes Martin’s “Grey Stone II” (1961), which was estimated between $6mn and $8mn and hammered for $16mn ($18.7mn with fees)....
...At first, the origin of the gold raised a few eyebrows among her clients, says Walter....
...McCarthy notes that the first presidential election he ever voted in was in 1984, when Reagan won a landslide victory over Democrat Walter Mondale....
...“It has felt American in the past but is really growing in traction [in the UK],” says Lylie founder Eliza Walter....
...It is spectacular: the graceful stone facade, patterned marble floors and decorative glass gleam; galleries have been opened up to form splendid enfilades punctuated by ornamental arches....
...Braemar is the repository of a greater number of bizarre collections than I have ever encountered (rolling pins, Stone Age hand-axes unearthed on the property, the shell of every significant oyster Hamilton...
...As we came to the border, marked only by stone blocks, modern and ancient, and a herd of cattle, each of us felt emotional. We crossed the grassy land border on foot with no other humans in sight....
...In the mid-20th century, poet John Heath-Stubbs described the area west of St Ives as “a hideous and wicked country” and Walter de la Mare detected “a brooding of evil” in the cliffs around Land’s End....
...Saturday 25 March, 10am, Sheldonian Theatre, £7-£12.50 Chatwin, Patagonia, and the Bodleian: Searching for a NaziProminent international lawyer Philippe Sands describes his search for Nazi war criminal Walter...
...According to Try, Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry drew up plans for sleek Modernist buildings — too radical for the local planning authorities....
...“The house was built out of the stones of a castle that burned down in the 18th century,” says Ruiz-Picasso’s wife, the gallerist Almine Rech....
...It was named after the Rolling Stones star who liked the order when he ate here a few years ago. “A Jagger might be a little much for you,” says Christie, when I ask for his advice....
...His piece (from which Mackay’s account above comes) was headlined “War hero or Walter Mitty?” “Mackay readily admits he has a poor recall of places and dates,” Harris wrote....
...what has come to be known as land art, alongside Nancy Holt’s “Sun Tunnels” in Utah’s Great Basin Desert, Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” in the Great Salt Lake, Alice Aycock’s “Maze” in Pennsylvania and Walter...
...The equivalent mirror in “Woman with a Book” contains a fragmented white head, like a stone sculpture, suggesting his own features — a ghostly voyeur....
...“Whereas [Bauhaus founder Walter] Gropius removed all the history books from the library to somewhere dark and difficult to find.” The 1960s ethic was to forget history, to begin anew....
...In 1937, both artists contributed to “Circle”, a survey of constructivist art, which saw Hepworth’s essay illustrated by photographs of Stonehenge by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius....
...And off to one corner are little piles of stones, often contributed by visitors, as if in homage to the animist pagan spirits of Shinto, as alive across the land as Buddhist deities....
...Living on what is basically a wickerwork basket may be picturesque, suggested Walter, but presents certain inconveniences....
...“One of my favourite bits of writing is Walter Benjamin on Naples in One Way Street. He describes the city as [being] as porous as the stone in the architecture....
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