Tag: The Guardian
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‘This is just the start’: China’s passion for foreign property
A huge new wave of Chinese investment in overseas housing may be about to flow into the global market. In Hong Kong, Tom Phillips meets the salesmen who market British property to mainland China
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Paris fashion week: Bouchra Jarrar shows she means business at Lanvin
New artistic director focuses on practicality and classic glamour at the Hôtel de Ville, a change perhaps inspired by falling profits
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Furniture that destroys forests: crackdown on ‘rampant’ trade in rosewood
Cites summit moves to protect the world’s most trafficked wild product by placing all 300 species of the tree under trade restrictions
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How brows became the beauty obsession of the decade
Fluffy, HD or microbladed, eyebrow grooming is a boom business thanks to icons such as Cara Delevingne
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Stay on the Ecuador farm that produces the world’s most expensive chocolate
A bar of To’ak chocolate sells for a tooth-splintering $345 – but a stay in a treehouse in the Ecuador rainforest where it originates costs just $15 a night
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Foundation stone: leading architects on the homes that shaped them
How does your childhood home influence the one you make yourself? Seven leading architects look back at the foundations of their career