There may be no group in the world that understands the power and import of the carefully choreographed photo op quite like the British royal family. And there may be no better proof of that than the clan’s Buckingham Palace balcony appearance on the first day of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Thursday:…
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This article is part of our latest Design special section, about spaces inspired by nature. When I was handed a stem of white orchids at a recent flower-arranging workshop at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, my first impulse was to carefully carry it home, where I could put it in a…
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This article is part of our latest Design special section, about spaces inspired by nature. I have a large covered porch and would like to decorate it. Any suggestions for outdoor fabrics and rugs? We’ve come a long way from stiff vinyl cushions that cracked and faded in the sun and perpetually damp rugs that…
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This article is part of our latest Design special section, about spaces inspired by nature. CAMAIORE, Italy — When Marco Pasanella was a boy, he began to spend summers in Tuscany, where his father, Giovanni Pasanella, an architect and former professor of architecture and urban design at Yale and Columbia, had moved in the 1970s.…
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This article is part of our latest Design special section, about spaces inspired by nature. When Ben and Rebekah Shaffer began looking for a second home that would feel like a world away from their daily reality in Silicon Valley, they weren’t sure about which direction to take. At first, “we were thinking we could…
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The future is looking bright for the award-winning chef Thibault Sombardier. Last year, under financial pressure from successive coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions on hospitality businesses, the owners of Antoine restaurant on the Right Bank — where Mr. Sombardier had won a Michelin star for his inventive seafood dishes — decided to sell the decade-old establishment,…
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This article is part of our latest Design special section, about spaces inspired by nature. SEWANEE, Tenn. — Keith Meacham moves eagerly to greet a visitor, accompanied by two ecstatic spaniels. In a loose pink cotton shift that patrols the border between chic and ease, she leads her guest into a screened porch filled with…
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This article is part of our latest Design special section, about spaces inspired by nature. It is not your imagination. There really is a trend in floral-patterned housewares — and not just wispy little blossoms on wall coverings, but giant botanicals that boldly sate our hunger for natural beauty after more than two years of…
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Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee, a pancreatic cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins Medicine also highlighted the location of the patient’s metastases, or where the cancer had spread to. Metastases arose only in the patient’s lungs. Most pancreatic cancer patients have metastases in their liver that are more difficult to treat. “I would like to see liver lesions…
DetailsThe research found that those who drank moderate amounts of coffee, even with a little sugar, were up to 30 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who didn’t drink coffee.