INTERIORS March 17, 2011 CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF APD INTERIORS Q. Dear Andrew, the rooms in my home are not particularly big. How can I make them appear bigger? A. Start by asking yourself if you could just reorganise and declutter to create more space. Nothing makes a small room look smaller than a cluttered, messy room, so clear it [...]
PROPERTY NEWS March 17, 2011 OPEN HOUSE DAY AT STRUTT & PARKER The estate agents Strutt & Parker will be opening the doors of properties across the UK for buyers on 26 March. Prospective buyers will be able to view a range of properties, from quaint cottages to grand manor houses, in a relaxed, pressure-free environment, from 10am to 4pm. [...]
Sheridan outshines Sienna March 17, 2011 Theatre FLARE PATH Theatre Royal, Haymarket Of all the fearful things brave people did in World War II, few were more perilous than being part of a bomber crew. A quiet sense of terror underwrites Flare Path, which is set in a small hotel where flight crews and their loved ones meet to relax between [...]
ALSO OUT: March 17, 2011 DVD Submarine Directed by Richard Ayaode, a touching, entrancing look at teenage love. lincoln lawyer Matthew McConnaughey plays a lawyer who conducts business from his Lincoln limo in this run-of-the-mill thriller. DVD The Social Network Enthralling, award-winning examination of Facebook’s birth. red Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich star in this action thriller about [...]
Philosophers and the fine art of business March 16, 2011 DO BUSINESSES that are trusted make more money? Is it ever morally acceptable to lie? Is a corporation a moral agent? If so, who does that mean is responsible if it does bad things? Not the most obvious questions that you might expect to face on an MBA course, perhaps, but these sorts of quandaries [...]
Rats, feral pigs and tragedy March 16, 2011 WHEN THE KILLING’S DONE BY T.C. BOYLE Bloomsbury, £18.99 What a pleasure to have a thriller from such a master of letters as the award-winning American writer TC Boyle. Quite unlike his last novel, The Women, an acclaimed biography of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, this is an eco-thriller that takes us into the dark heart [...]
Canary Wharf leads the new wave of swanky members’ clubs March 16, 2011 RARELY has a new club been so aptly named as the recently launched Sky Bar at the Millbank Tower. With wall to wall windows, the views from its 29th floor, directly down towards the Houses of Parliament, are arguably the best in London. While previously just for events, the space has been transformed into an [...]
A stylish people carrier March 15, 2011 TO move seven people around in comfort, whether on the school run or otherwise, is a challenge. Many car makers these days sell seven-seaters but usually the only people that can comfortably sit in the far rear seats need to be small. Which means most seven-seaters are really 5+2 seaters with room only for kids [...]
A tapas triumph in Covent Garden March 14, 2011 Opera Tavern 23 Catherine St, WC2B 5JS, Tel: 020 7836 3680 www.operatavern.co.uk FOOD HHHHI SERVICE HHHHI ATMOSPHERE HHHHI Cost per person without wine: £35 OPERA Tavern has been opened by the husband and wife team behind two of London’s best-regarded tapas restaurants, Salt Yard and Dehesa. This one’s in Covent Garden, just off the piazza, [...]
Barbados March 14, 2011 BEST BEACH Crane Beach is considered by many to be one of the island’s most beautiful beaches. In fact, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous rated it as “one of the 10 best beaches in the world”. The name “Crane” was derived from the large crane situated at the top of the cliff which was [...]