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100 years of the British phone box: a design icon on screen
Ring in the centenary celebrations for the iconic telephone box with a round-up of some of its most memorable cinematic supporting roles.
22 May 2021
Local Hero (1983)
Making its first appearance on Britain’s streets 100 years ago, the telephone box is often celebrated as one of our quintessential landmarks. On film, however, it tends to take on a more subversive role. As a space of secrecy for illicit negotiations or a means to conceal conversations, the on-screen phone box is a gateway to crime and desire.
It’s all a far cry from the intentions behind Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s K2 design with its bright vermillion tint, which replaced the original 1921 design in 1924 and was intended to make the booths stand out in case of emergencies.
During the summer, buyers in Manhattan were negotiating 50pc off. Now, sales have skyrocketed
8 March 2021 • 6:00am
Manhattan s Midtown offices remain largely empty, but buyers are coming back to the property market
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The promise of huge discounts on New York property this summer was too big for one tenacious European buyer to miss, despite American border closures.
An Odyssean journey across the Atlantic via the Dominican Republic and a long quarantine period paid dividends. The client of Christie’s International Real Estate brokerage purchased a prime New York home at 40pc below its asking price.
But perhaps they were not so tenacious after all. Erin Boisson Aries, of CIRE, said at the bottom of the market over the summer some buyers were snapping up properties for just half their original price tags.