Photographer John Stoddart exhibits at Audio Lounge
Renowned photographer John Stoddart is exhibiting a selection of his works at Audio Lounge in Wigmore Street between 16th January and 7th February. (more…)
Category: OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR
Luxury and the arts From houses to cars and from Hockney to van Dyck, a profile of the best and the worst
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Bargaining for charity
Former Harrods buyer offers tips on how to charity shop
Don’t sniff your noses up at charity shops. They can be a goldmine for bargains and a source for designer goods at knockdown prices. Victoria and David Beckham donated their clothes to the British Red Cross store in Old Church Street last November and other regular donors include Lilly Allen, Michael Aspel, Elen Rives. (more…)
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Rolling along nicely
Rolls-Royce and Bentley are prospering
Yesterday’s financial press rightly hailed the success of two of Britain’s finest brands: Rolls-Royce and Bentley. Their results during 2013 were frankly astounding. (more…)
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Peck’s ‘Mockingbird Bentley’
Bentley owned by Gregory Peck for 34 years goes to auction
Gregory Peck loved his 1961 Bentley S2 Continental Flying Spur so much that he kept it for 34 years. The very same car is set to be auctioned on 17th January by RM Auctions. (more…)
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Pottery and drama
£3 million castle once owned by the Wedgewood family comes to the market
Robin MacDonald, the current owner of Caverswall Castle in Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire is a man once described as “having it all”. He’s also a man who plainly attracts drama and with the sale of his castle, a new chapter looms for his Grade I listed, moated home. (more…)
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The house of fun
A coastal estate complete with its own private cove comes to the market for £7.5 million
Described by the selling agents as a “private coastal estate with fun as its mantra”, Redlap House near Dartmouth in Devon is situated in a 30-acre frost free valley that runs down to the sea. (more…)
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A Prodigy house
A country seat with a prodigious history
Historic Brereton Hall in Brereton, Cheshire is a fine Elizabethan country house but one that has been sadly separated from much of its original estate. (more…)
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Pink and Pricey
Katie Price tries to sell her pink Range Rover
Katie Price is a woman known for not being particularly refined. With the sale of her pink Range Rover, a buyer of equally poor taste could acquire this hideous vehicle for £69,950. (more…)
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A classic English home
A former rectory that truly is a classic English home
Old rectories and vicarages are the things of novels: Jeffrey Archer lives in one near Cambridge that was previously the home of the poet Rupert Brooke and Joanna Trollope waxes lyrical about them regularly. (more…)
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I’m out
Duncan Bannatyne slices £100,000 off asking price of his former marital home
Listed in June 2013 for £899,000 according to Zoopla and now reduced to £799,995, Duncan Bannatyne OBE’s troubles with selling his home near Middlesbrough were detailed in yesterday’s ‘City Diary’ in The Telegraph. (more…)