Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Also in Paris, Sotheby’s wrapped up its mammoth auctions of 1,131 pieces of furniture and other objects from the mid-17th-century Hôtel Lambert (October 11-17)....
...Hôtel Lambert: A Princely Collection is at Sotheby’s Paris from 11 to 14 October...
...The UN is relying too much on the private sector under a very half-baked initiative,” said Jean-Francois Lambert, a consultant and former commodities-trade banker....
...The sale will support the Al Thani Collection Foundation....
...thousand-plus items sold from the Hôtel Lambert in Paris through Sotheby’s for €76.6mn in October....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, said in Doha this week that it would be “very challenging”....
...Reliance Industries has hired Yasir al-Rumayyan, head of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, as an independent director on its board....
...Jean-François Lambert, of Lambert Commodities, said the deal would help LDC in its transformation from a largely trading-focused business model to an integrated food business....
...More than a decade ago he paid a personal visit to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, to urge him to make peace with Israel....
...Mr Lamberts, the MEP, added: “You don’t shape Europe by bullying Europe, you shape Europe by building alliances.”...
...Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani, a former economy minister, acknowledges that the economy is still adjusting to the collapse in oil prices in 2014....
...This exposed a struggle for power between Khalid Al Falih, the energy minister, and Public Investment Fund chief Yasir al-Rumayyan. Read the FT's full report on the infighting here....
...Arriving at a time when environmental documentaries were confined to the Discovery Channel, former US vice-president Al Gore’s lecture-film, directed by Davis Guggenheim, helped raise the profile of climate...
...Fred Lambert of Electrek said the prototype “met and then crushed almost all of our expectations”, and the new truck already has a — very small — order from Walmart....
...Keating Estates is selling a stylish two-bedroom flat on Lambert Road for £625,000....
...After protests against President Bashar al-Assad escalated into civil war in 2012, expatriate employees were evacuated and the plant was managed remotely from Cairo....
...Covers have ranged from those by Aretha Franklin and Al Green — both steeped in the church — to Seal and Van Morrison....
...Among them was Sheikh Hamad Al Thani, who has a home nearby, jeweller Laurence Graff and fashionista Valentino....
...Finally, the firm is partnering with Simon de Pury in October during Frieze week for a big sale of items consigned by Baroness Lambert....
...But they have been vividly retold – including the above interview with Mr Araujo – in a powerful 50-minute documentary by Step Vaessen, then working for Dutch television and now Al Jazeera English’s Jakarta-based...
...from Saudi Arabia and Sheikha Hoor al-Qasimi of Sharjah, who runs that emirate’s own well-respected biennial...
...With 75 exhibitors, the fair achieves a good mix of international dealers – including Pace, Miro, Lambert, Continua and Arndt and more local galleries....
...Despite Exxon’s silence, what is clear is that the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki now faces a difficult balancing act....
...To most people, “the untouchables” brings to mind the intrepid 1930s G-Men who hunted down Al Capone or perhaps the down-and-out in India’s caste system....
International Edition