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Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
From one of Britain's most renowned style arbiters, an essential handbook for women everywhere on how elegance and glamour can enhance every aspect of life.
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Check it out: hotel style for your home
Designer André Fu, having recently completed a suite at Hong Kong’s Upper House, has extended his Living collection at andrefuliving.com with pieces that include a new dining table, armchair and sofa, while his Art Deco Garden range can be found at amara.com from late August. Candace Bahouth, the mosaic artist, has created special benches; artist Theodora Gould’s painted cabinets (£5,000) are deliciously pretty; there are Hana Reynolds lamps and shades (from £350 each), and a rainbow-hued chair by Solange Azagury-Partridge and Bill Amberg. Kit Kemp, the founder and creative director of Firmdale Hotels who creates collections for fabric and wallpapers brands Christopher Farr and Andrew Martin, has envisaged pieces for Wedgwood, and her fabulously colourful furniture, made to order at firmdalehotels.com, was showcased at a pop-up shop in New York’s Bergdorf Goodman in 2019.
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Gardening is a way to be a human being
Plato taught his students in the garden of Akademos while Aristotle’s Lyceum was a verdant plot with a shaded grove (from where it got its name) and a botanical garden. In New Zealand, he created a garden with vast curving shrub waves inspired by the sea, mirrored in the plot’s crescent-shaped pool, a reflection on the moon. [...]instead of a traditional herbaceous border there is some rather Zen-like greenery with boxwood and lavender predominating.
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It's time to take the frocks off
The British clothing and textile industry is valued at around 8 billion pounds sterling per year. The industry employs 364,000 and accounts for 3 billion pounds of exports. It is argued that the turnover of some international fashion houses dwarf the GDP of countries such as Angola, Afghanistan or Liberia. Calvin Klein alone is worth 20 billion US dollars.
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They stocked a secret larder with the world’s best products. Now they’re sharing it with us
A shared interest in fine things – “food and wine and the best household products and provisions” – led them to uncover the most outstanding small artisan producers. [...]there has just been one selection of products, a litmus test made available only to those in their own address books – Prain’s interior-design clients and Buchanan’s wine customers. The wine glasses, by Austrian-based Zalto, are also used by many Michelin-starred restaurants around the world, and are all handcrafted in Zalto’s own factory from strong yet ultra-fine non-lead crystal glass.
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