Maximum excitement on the CWC with Sporting Index February 19, 2015 CRICKET and sports spread betting are made for each other. Sporting Index covers every aspect of a match and betting markets can be extremely volatile offering the opportunity for big wins but also heavy losses. One of the most popular markets is player performance. Traders will give players a spread reflecting how well they believe [...]
Ballinvarrig to make George king of the BetBright Chase once again February 19, 2015 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS THE BEST OF THE WEEKEND RACING ACTION IIT IS fair to say that tomorrow’s BetBright Chase at Kempton (3.45pm) isn’t quite the race is used to be. Desert Orchid, Docklands Express, Rough Quest and Gloria Victis are just some of the top class horses to have claimed the prize in the past, [...]
Road to Cheltenham February 19, 2015 WE HAVE been treated to some wonderful winners of the World Hurdle since the turn of the millennium – the record-breaking Big Buck’s, the incredibly gutsy Inglis Drever and the supremely talented Baracouda. It looked as though another staying star was born last year when More Of That got the better of Annie Power but, [...]
The Beal deal February 19, 2015 Figures hang suspended and exposed in vague landscapes of coloured panels and platforms. Bartholomew Beal’s paintings are dark and light, disturbing and beautiful, rich with meaning yet unnervingly ambiguous. There’s the horror of Francis Bacon, and the colourful exuberance of Peter Doig. Anyone who visited last year’s solo show at the Fine Art Society will [...]
Brick by brick February 19, 2015 A new coffee-table book celebrates the enduring appeal of the ultimate building material Age has not withered the humble brick, but nor has it afforded it much prestige. More than any other material, bricks have enshrined civilisation, protected it, provided space for it to grow, yet they’re seen as the humdrum standard, little more than [...]
Art of brass February 19, 2015 Make storage stylish with these handcrafted stacking vessels Storage is a vital, but throughly mundane, fact of life. Fortunately, the brother and sister team behind Utopia & Utility have come up with a solution that’s both functional and fashionable. These stacking vessels are actually three different containers made by three European craftsmen to form one [...]
Easel does it February 19, 2015 Samsung’s 85 inch S9 TV will turn your living room into a cinema If watching television is less a pastime and more a second job, then perhaps you should consider investing in one of these. Samsung’s 85 inch behemoth isn’t just something to watch the new season of House of Cards on – it’s a [...]
Beautiful things: Brass vessels, Samsung’s easel TV and Tom Dixon furniture February 19, 2015 Make storage stylish with these handcrafted stacking vessels Storage is a vital, but throughly mundane, fact of life. Fortunately, the brother and sister team behind Utopia & Utility have come up with a solution that’s both functional and fashionable. These stacking vessels are actually three different containers made by three European craftsmen to form one [...]
Kelly Hoppen reveals how she re-invented luxury in Mauritius while growing a global design empire February 19, 2015 Kelly Hoppen is an internationally renowned designer, the empress of all things taupe and beige, an entrepreneur, and a business ambassador for the UK. She was even a fixture on the BBC’s Dragons Den for two years, but she recently left “due to a packed schedule”. Juggling so many roles sounds like it requires time [...]
God save McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition celebrating Alexander McQueen comes home February 19, 2015 Duck feather dress from McQueen’s 2009 Horn of Plenty show A world beholden to mercantile concerns, where in follows out with bewildering arbitrariness and where genius gets distorted, compressed and subsumed into the commercial vortex that is the retail industry – fashion is no place for an artist. But an artist is what Alexander McQueen [...]