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...The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present by Nigel Townson, Allen Lane £30, 576 pages Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain by Paul Preston, William...
...Cal Flyn is the author of ‘Islands of Abandonment’ (William Collins). Entry to Seljavallalaug is free; it is about two hours’ drive from downtown Reykjavik....
...It was converted with the help of his long-time architect and friend Basil Walter....
...(Its North Beach location is at 7349 Collins Avenue.) One oasis of calm is The Bass museum on 21st Street and Collins Avenue....
...Consider F Scott Fitzgerald, the great poet of ruined glamour and wasted promise....
...Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain, by Suzanne Heywood, William Collins, RRP£25, 556 pages Bronwen Maddox is director of the Institute for Government, a UK think-tank Join our online book...
...“Even when the attorney-general was very close to the president, as with Robert F Kennedy, the justice department has always maintained some independence from the grubbiest aspects of politics, but we have...
...Williams came to set decorating from a career in photography....
...Pugin, C.F.A. Voysey, Edward William Godwin and Christopher Dresser....
...Nixon had lost the 1960 US presidential election to John F Kennedy. “This was way before Nixon was president,” says Daniels....
...“So when [bespoke furniture maker] Adam Williams asked me to work on a range with him, I decided to create it myself, using luxurious materials....
...Designed by late Irish architect David Collins, its textured walls in platinum silver leaf, dark leather and mirrored panels evoke a 1920s cubist aesthetic....
...Managing Director, Crown Highways Amanda Lowe Managing Director, Story Comms Tim Pile Chair, Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership Peter Hubbard Managing Partner, Anthony Collins...
...That monumental rotunda, designed by the East India Company’s surveyor, William Jones, contrasts vividly with the exhibition’s paper and bamboo “Umbrella Tea House”, by architect Kazuhiro Yajima, which looks...
...The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World, by Raghuram Rajan, William Collins, RRP£30/Penguin Press, RRP$30 Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has long spanned the...
...It offers a sense of safety redolent of an Italian hilltown, just as its architect intended....
...Yauch’s architect father came to New York as an aspiring abstract painter....
...Notable members Theodore Roosevelt (US president), Thomas Nast (satirist), William Cullen Bryant (poet and journalist)....
...Why Dylan Matters , by Richard F Thomas, William Collins, RRP£12.99/Dey Street Books, RRP$24.99 Homer, Ovid, Virgil . . . Dylan?...
...Gatz, the New York ensemble’s 2006 adaptation of The Great Gatsby, moved F....
...Perhaps the best-known residential towers are those built by the Greek-Australian architect Nonda Katsalidis in the 1990s, using a mix of brutalist and postmodern styles....
...Having relied on tradespeople for decor in the past, shipping companies turned to interior architects and designers....
...The library has been designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and has raised a few eyebrows....
...The Seabird’s Cry , by Adam Nicolson, William Collins, RRP£16.99 Nicolson explores the life stories of 10 seabirds — puffins, gulls, guillemots, cormorants, gannets and so on — that he observes around the...
...Giving a heartfelt and vastly erudite speech, which quoted Nietzsche and John F Kennedy, as well as referencing Gertrude Stein and various Impressionists, he opened the transformed National Gallery of Ireland...
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