Lighting is key in any interior – and there’s no shortage of choice when it comes to this season’s lamps.
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Very Now
Nada Debs’s latest collection, Now & Zen, is now available at Comptoir 102. It features a range of lamps, cushions, furniture and handbags in Debs’s signature East-meets-West style, but we have our eye on this piece, which offers a minimalist twist on traditional Arabesque motifs.
• Now & Zen lamp, price on request, Comptoir 102, Jumeirah Beach Road, Dubai
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Woodn’t it be nice
For a more organic, nature-inspired choice, look no further than this wooden lamp from Zara Home. We love how you can see the natural grain of the wood and how it appears to be carved from a single tree trunk.
• Lamp, Dh649, Zara Home stores across the UAE
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Grand designs
If you’re looking for something a little grander, this metal, three-shade lamp from Al Huzaifa Furniture will make quite the design statement, wherever you choose to put it.
• Lamp, Dh665, Al Huzaifa Furniture, Abu Dhabi Plaza and Zabeel Road, Dubai
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4 Like a lava lamp
The Nyx lamp from La Maison Verte gives off an almost otherworldly glow. Crafted from glass, it reminds us of those lava lamps of old, but in a slicker, more appealing form.
• Nyx lamp, Dh995 (small version), La Maison Verte, Mushrif Mall, Abu Dhabi and Oasis Mall, Dubai
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Simply does it
The combination of a simple white shade and elaborate gold detailing on this lamp from Al Huzaifa Furniture makes for an interesting contrast. This would be the perfect choice for a corner that needs sprucing up or a hallway that’s looking a little underwhelming.
• 3D Gold lamp, Dh2,800, Al Huzaifa Furniture
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Pakistan 139-3 (61 ov)
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The 12 breakaway clubs
England
Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur
Italy
AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus
Spain
Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Real Madrid
Milestones on the road to union
1970
October 26: Bahrain withdraws from a proposal to create a federation of nine with the seven Trucial States and Qatar.
December: Ahmed Al Suwaidi visits New York to discuss potential UN membership.
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March 1: Alex Douglas Hume, Conservative foreign secretary confirms that Britain will leave the Gulf and “strongly supports” the creation of a Union of Arab Emirates.
July 12: Historic meeting at which Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid make a binding agreement to create what will become the UAE.
July 18: It is announced that the UAE will be formed from six emirates, with a proposed constitution signed. RAK is not yet part of the agreement.
August 6: The fifth anniversary of Sheikh Zayed becoming Ruler of Abu Dhabi, with official celebrations deferred until later in the year.
August 15: Bahrain becomes independent.
September 3: Qatar becomes independent.
November 23-25: Meeting with Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid and senior British officials to fix December 2 as date of creation of the UAE.
November 29: At 5.30pm Iranian forces seize the Greater and Lesser Tunbs by force.
November 30: Despite a power sharing agreement, Tehran takes full control of Abu Musa.
November 31: UK officials visit all six participating Emirates to formally end the Trucial States treaties
December 2: 11am, Dubai. New Supreme Council formally elects Sheikh Zayed as President. Treaty of Friendship signed with the UK. 11.30am. Flag raising ceremony at Union House and Al Manhal Palace in Abu Dhabi witnessed by Sheikh Khalifa, then Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.
December 6: Arab League formally admits the UAE. The first British Ambassador presents his credentials to Sheikh Zayed.
December 9: UAE joins the United Nations.
