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...While William Caxton was setting up his printing press in London, Lodewyk van Bercken of Antwerp was cutting the city’s first major diamond, a whopper of 137 carats for the bling-loving Duke of Burgundy,...
...A keen observer of the market for vintage watches, Nick Foulkes has identified the most in-demand dealers in the business....
...Huntsman at No 11 may be grander; and, having recently celebrated its bicentenary, Henry Poole at No 15 may call itself “the founding father of Savile Row”; but Gieves & Hawkes at No 1 occupies the gracious William...
...The RM Williams Instagram account demonstrates that there are plenty of other ways to wear them....
...Apple and at Hermès share a commitment to craftsmanship and materials, alongside a respect for tradition and an endless curiosity about the possibilities of the future”, is the way that Apple COO Jeff Williams...
...Other pieces have been chosen for an air of gallery-like calm: a pair of stools by Charlotte Perriand, an oxidised bronze sculpture by Claude Vernet, and a pail-sized William Yeoward glass vase....
...For British journalist Nicholas Foulkes, it was Greensill’s ankle boots — protruding from his trousers, their fabric pull tabs clearly visible — that were particularly bothersome....
...He also designed the wheeled Louis Vuitton suitcase at your side, the RM Williams boots on your feet and the Apple Watch on your wrist....
...And as Herbert’s remark suggests, the culture of ornament is gender‑neutral: while an aventurine baseplate is the defining feature of a new men’s watch designed by Richard Mille with Pharrell Williams, the...
...William & Son, williamandson.com....
...There are indeed some good pictures, including works by Augustus John, Sir William Orpen and Sir Alfred Munnings....
...One, Robert Foulkes, started buying regularly from the teenage Edward....
...With its sweeping acres of lowland heath and woodland, it is easy to see why William the Conqueror decided to parcel off this “new” forest as his own personal royal hunting ground....
...When he established England’s first private school, William of Wykeham had more pressing things on his mind than transforming the country’s educational landscape....
...“I had interest from three or four other teams, but we went with Williams....
...Tom Foulkes, the company’s head of marketing, said Arup was unable to talk about the various projects it had built at the Olympic Park because of the protocol....
...Grace wielded his belly as proudly as his bat; his contemporary, the Chelsea goalkeeper William “Fatty” Foulke weighed 24 stones; and in baseball, Babe Ruth reportedly once limbered up for a Yankees game...
...Some claim it was first aimed at Sheffield United’s 24-stone goalkeeper, William Henry “Fatty” Foulke, around 1900. Few, though, have embraced it as enthusiastically as the Scots....
...It looks like it’s going to be more Freud that Fatty Foulke and I await getting into its first chapter - “Sexy Football” - with bated heavy breathing. peter.chapman@ft.com...
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