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Daily Record
2 days ago
- Business
- Daily Record
'Luxurious' Dunelm bedding that's 'soft and snuggly' gets 20% price cut in sale
'Love this bedding, great quality, velvet material, vibrant colours and washes well! Well worth the money.' For those who want to change up the style and vibe of their bedroom, all they need to do is switch up their bedding. As there are so many different styles of bedding out there, simply switching from a checkered style to a vibrant floral pattern can have a big impact. For those in need of some new bed clothes, Dunelm is currently holding its summer sale, which is seeing some popular items get price cuts as big as 50 per cent. With loads of bedding included in the sale, shoppers are spoilt for choice. For those looking for something vibrant, Dunelm has slashed the price of the Tropical Treasures Duvet Cover & Pillowcase Set. Usually retailing for between £36 and £52, the homeware retailer has taken a 20 per cent slash to every bedding size. Shoppers can now snatch up the single for £28.80 and the double for £33.60. For those who own a king size or super king bed, the prices are slightly higher at £38.40 and £41.60 respectively. Dunelm promises that this Treasures Bedding set will transform a bedroom into a lush oasis, due to its stylish tropical pattern, reports The Mirror. Crafted from recycled polyester, the botanical design will infuse your space with colours and natural beauty. Including matching pillowcases for a cohesive look, the bedding features a secure button closure to ensure that the duvet stays in place during the night. Additionally, for those who want to complete the aesthetic, Dunelm is also selling a range of items in the same design, including pillows and curtains. Tropical Treasures Duvet Cover & Pillowcase Set £36 - £52 £28.80 - £41.60 Dunelm Buy Now Product Description Another gorgeous set in the Dunelm sale is the Watercolour Circles Teal Duvet Cover and Pillowcase Set. Normally retailing for between £14 and £30, shoppers can snap up this calming set for the slightly cheaper prices of £11.20 to £24. Alternatively, Argos is also selling their Home Cotton Botanical Floral White Bedding Set. The single is retailing for £20, the double is £24 and the king size is £28. Unfortunately, there is not a super king size available. This reversible set has a floral design on one side and a beautiful teal colour on the reverse. Back to Dunelm's Tropical Bedding, shoppers have awarded the set an almost perfect rating of 4.8 stars. On top of this, of the 65 reviews, 58 of them gave the vibrant set five-stars. One delighted shopper said: "Love this bedding, great quality, velvet material, vibrant colours and washes well! Well worth the money." With another happy shopper adding: "Absolutely beautiful duvet set. Luxurious, great to sleep in and a great price. I loved it soo much I purchased the curtains to match. I would highly recommend this product." However, one shopper wasn't impressed, writing: "The quality and colours look and feel lovely, but after one wash a noticeable change in colour fading which was very disappointing." With a four-star reviewer noting: "Only one minor criticism, and that's the way my duvet moves around inside it. Every morning I have to work out where the corners have gone because it's no longer sitting straight inside the cover. "This is probably because the duvet has the patterned textured side and a lighter weight smoother underside. It was annoying at first, but I've got used to it." On the flip side, a five-star reviewer commented: "These feel luxuriously soft and beautifully made. With the matching cushions and curtains, this design has made a drab room look great!" While a sixth shopper added: "Very luxurious and great quality! Can't wait to get in to bed each night. Best purchase I've made in a long time! The material is beautifully soft and snuggly." To add a pop of colour to a bedroom, click HERE to buy the Tropical Treasures Duvet Cover & Pillowcase Set. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'.
Otago Daily Times
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Art seen: May 1
"Easter Exhibition", group show (Gallery Thirty Three, Wanaka) Gallery Thirty Three's "Easter Exhibition" is a gem, featuring intricate sculpture, quirky still life, and profoundly impactful landscapes, showcasing the new works of six artists in multiple media. In Peter Miller's oil paintings, vintage toys are depicted against cloudy, neutral backgrounds, as if emerging from the depths of our memories. With their flaked paint and the solemn composition, they could feel like the silent, abandoned relics of a long-ago childhood; but instead, the toys seem to be captured in action, forever at play, the tractor leaving the fields after a long day, the race car heading for victory. Miller perfectly captures the power of imagination that's hopefully never lost. Caroline Bellamy's gorgeous landscapes are stylised and just slightly abstracted, with sharply sketched-out planes and lines. With bold, dynamic brushstrokes and dramatic use of shadow, her rolling mountains seem to shatter into geometric fragments from one angle, then piece smoothly together from another. Stephen Howard skilfully blends out edges and texture in his Fiordland Rain Cloud paintings to create an intense sense of atmosphere. The clouds are closing in, the light is focused and resilient; you can imagine the clean, renewing smell of rain in the air and the first touch of mist. Fiordland Rain Cloud #3 has a minimal palette and a hazy simplicity of form, but it resonates with emotional power—the light in the dark, the moment of realisation during the storm. "Treasures", Group Show (Milford Galleries, Queenstown) Celebrating the opening of their new gallery site in Queenstown's Gorge Rd, Milford Galleries has curated a visual journey through some of the peaks, highlights, and seminal moments in New Zealand's art history. "Treasures" is a showcase of culturally significant and beautiful works, spanning decades of artistic innovation and exploration, from the expressive sense of place and connection in the 1970s modernism of Toss Woollaston to the striking imagery and immersive narratives of Lisa Reihana. Alongside his iconic beehive paintings, Michael Hight's Paterson Inlet and the recent Arrow Junction blend still life, landscape, and elements of the Wunderkammer, the cabinets of curiosity, creating the impression of stepping into the "storeroom" of our minds, with objects, locations, and emotions being inextricably entwined in our memories. Among the paintings, it's also a treat to see Gretchen Albrecht's 1978 Illumination (3) again, a work of abstraction that always reminded me of an open book and quill, the knowledge and imagination within the pages surging upwards like fire. The expansive, airy space of the new gallery is perfectly suited for sculptural displays—and sculpture is arguably the star of the show here, with Neil Dawson's expert manipulation of architectural angles, light and shadow in Vanishing Point 6 and Reflections — Clouds , the pared-back avian imagery and sleek lines of Mike Crawford's cast glass, and Paul Dibble's majestic bronze bird forms in The Lost Garden and the unexpectedly tense-feeling Flock . "Purely Pastel 2025", PANZ (Pastel Artists of New Zealand) (Central Stories Museum and Gallery, Alexandra) The Pastel Artists of New Zealand are holding their national exhibition at Alexandra's Central Stories, and it was a privilege to see the works of "Purely Pastel 2025". From sun-drenched hills to blue-tinged icy plains and chaotic, dangerous seas, the landscapes are evocative and atmospheric, in some cases almost vibrating with the harnessed power of the elements. The still life works are intricately detailed and playful in their choice of subject, and the portraits — of both people and animals — so lifelike and life-filled that a personality seems to reach out through the canvas. The sheer range of subjects, technique, and application is striking, and viewers could spend hours examining every inch of each canvas for surprising and clever details. In works like Jackie Krzyzewski's Grapes on the Vine , the almost translucent bloom on the grapes is touched by the light, with both a richness of colour and delicacy of detail; like the glittering icy sheen of Olga Parr's Silver Blue , the parched, deserted land in Michael Freeman's Petrified , and the thoughtful regard and suppressed humour of Anne Berry's portrait Red Nails , it's a piece where people will look closely to see exactly how many different tones and layers created the illusion of realism. Some works are photorealistic and others more stylised and impressionistic; all are impactful and often extremely emotive. Visitors can vote for the piece to which they're most drawn, but this isn't a show of one or two standouts—every work is worth seeing, and I suspect there'll be a wide range of favourites.
Korea Herald
30-03-2025
- General
- Korea Herald
Korea's worst wildfires prompt massive artifact relocation
27 cases of damage to cultural heritage tallied since last week Over 1,000 cultural artifacts protected by the government have been moved as a precaution as South Korea races to contain its worst wildfires on record. According to the Korea Heritage Service, 1,566 such items of historical importance have been taken out mostly from temples and old houses in the southeastern Gyeongsang provinces, where the blazes started last week. Unmovable objects like pavilions and halls have been covered with flame-resistant cloth, according to officials at the agency in charge of cultural heritage affairs, who added that 44 such structures are being protected. The agency has so far reported 27 cases of damage to cultural heritage, a tally that includes two state-designated treasures, as well as historical sites and monuments. State-designated National Treasures, given the highest government protections, have not been affected. Officials are now concentrating manpower on safeguarding two UNESCO-listed sites in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province. The 17th-century Confucian academy Byeongsanseowon, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2019, and Hahoe Village, which received the same recognition in 2010, have been under intense watch. No material damage has been reported, though authorities have evacuated people from the village, home to descendants of the Ryu clan of Pungsan, whose settlement there dates back to the 14th century. Some 750 agency personnel have been deployed to historical sites across the country, an unprecedented measure that followed the agency's decision
Korea Herald
28-03-2025
- Korea Herald
Korea's worst-ever wildfires prompt massive relocation of cultural artifacts
27 cases of damage to cultural heritage tallied since last week Over 1,000 cultural artifacts protected by the government have been moved as a precaution as South Korea races to contain its worst wildfires on record. According to the Korea Heritage Service, 1,566 such items of historical importance have been taken out mostly from temples and old houses in the southeastern Gyeongsang provinces, where the blazes started last week. Unmovable objects like pavilions and halls have been covered with flame-resistant cloth, according to officials at the agency in charge of cultural heritage affairs, who added that 44 such structures are being protected. The agency has so far reported 27 cases of damage to cultural heritage, a tally that includes two state-designated treasures, as well as historical sites and monuments. State-designated National Treasures, given the highest government protections, have not been affected. Officials are now concentrating manpower on safeguarding two UNESCO-listed sites in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province. The 17th-century Confucian academy Byeongsanseowon, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2019, and Hahoe Village, which received the same recognition in 2010, have been under intense watch. No material damage has been reported, though authorities have evacuated people from the village, home to descendants of the Ryu clan of Pungsan, whose settlement there dates back to the 14th century. Some 750 agency personnel have been deployed to historical sites across the country, an unprecedented measure that followed the agency's decision this week to raise its disaster alert to the highest level for the first time.
New York Times
27-03-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Leonard Polonsky, Philanthropist Who Supported the Arts, Dies at 97
Leonard S. Polonsky, a philanthropist who funded the arts and helped make significant historical artifacts and documents available to the public, including Sir Isaac Newton's early papers and a letter from Christopher Columbus's maiden voyage, died on March 14 at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. The cause was diastolic heart failure, his wife, Georgette Bennett, said. Mr. Polonsky made his fortune in the financial services sector, when his company, Hansard Global, a successor to one he founded in 1970, went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, earning him a profit of 99 million pounds. But his philanthropy began earlier, in 1985, when he started the Polonsky Foundation, in an effort to support the arts. Among its many beneficiaries was the Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn, where Mr. Polonsky was born. The theater, which specializes in preserving, performing and studying the works of Shakespeare, received a gift of $10 million in 2013, and its venue was renamed the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. In 2021, Mr. Polonsky made a $12 million donation to establish a new permanent exhibition at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue. Library employees spent three years sifting through 56 million artifacts in storage to identify 250 or so of the most awe-inspiring. The resulting display, known as 'The Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library's Treasures,' resembles a gilded curio shop of priceless items — among them, George Washington's copy of the Bill of Rights (with 12 amendments instead of 10); Thomas Jefferson's annotated version of the Declaration of Independence; a Gutenberg Bible; an Andy Warhol painting of a Studio 54 ticket; and stuffed animals that inspired A.A. Milne's 'Winnie-the-Pooh.' The idea for the exhibition — which, as of June 2024, had attracted some two million visitors — emerged from a 2016 meeting Mr. Polonsky had with Anthony W. Marx, the president and chief executive of the New York Public Library. Mr. Marx happened to show Mr. Polonsky a letter Christopher Columbus wrote in 1493, informing the Spanish royal court of land he had discovered. 'The whole colonial enterprise was laid out in that letter,' Ms. Bennett, his wife, said in an interview. 'Leonard said, 'This is the New York Public Library — why am I the only one who's seeing this?'' Mr. Polonsky's foundation also made it possible, in 2011, for the Cambridge University Library to digitize Isaac Newton's early papers and an annotated first edition of his 'Principia.' Beginning in 2012, the foundation funded a collaboration between Oxford's Bodleian Libraries and the Vatican Library, resulting in the digitization of 1.5 million pages from early printed books written in Greek, Latin and Hebrew. And in 2014, it helped establish the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. In a 2013 ceremony, Queen Elizabeth II named Mr. Polonsky a Commander of the British Empire for charitable services. 'Support for the arts seems so natural to me that it would be strange if I didn't do it,' he said in 'The Art of Being Leonard,' a 2010 documentary commissioned by his family. Leonard Selwyn Polonsky was born on April 13, 1927, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the eldest of three sons of Murray Polonsky, who owned a tobacco store, and Sadie (Futoran) Polonsky, who oversaw the home. He attended Townsend Harris High School, in Queens, where students were required to take a version of the Ephebic Oath, which concludes, 'I shall not leave my city any less but rather greater than I found it.' After high school, he attended New York University, graduating when he was 18, in 1944. Following a year and a half of Army service, he traveled to Europe in 1947, basking in what he called the 'curious intimacy' of postwar London and cultivating an interest in art in Paris. The next year, he married Beata Herzfeld, who died in 1989. In addition to Ms. Bennett, whom he married in 2001, he is survived by three children from his first marriage, Alan, Marc and Nicole Polonsky; a stepson, Joshua-Marc Tanenbaum; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Toby, a son from his first marriage, died in 1986. During his time in Europe, Mr. Polonsky studied at Oxford, where he earned a bachelor's degree in literature, and the Sorbonne, where he received a doctorate in literature. He began his financial career in 1955, selling mutual funds in Rome. He established his foundation in Britain, with the intent of democratizing knowledge and preserving international cultural heritage. Soon after, around 1986, he renounced his U.S. citizenship, in part for tax reasons, and settled in London, where he kept a home. Well into his 70s, Mr. Polonsky retained his enthusiasm for learning. In 2002, he enrolled in a Ph.D. program in literature at the City University of New York, cramming for tests and writing term papers as he had done in his youth. 'He still needed to get straight A's,' Ms. Bennett said. 'And he did.'
