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Elena Bowes

New York-London design & culture writer of a certain vintage looking for meaning and wholeness in life

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April 22nd, 2014 | Personal

Art as Therapy

I love the idea of this show, “Art as Therapy” at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Guest curators Alain de Botton and John Armstrong have created new, more meaningful captions for 150 works…

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| People

William Makepeace Thackeray

“Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.” This…

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| Places

Half-Pipe Skates to Selfridges

At the moment, I am loving Selfridges. And not because of what’s in the store so much as what’s next door, namely England’s largest in-door skateboard park. As part of…

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