Hints and tips:
...Absent a takeover bid, shifting the company’s listing, as suggested by activist Butler Hall, would be an uphill struggle....
...“They’re a piece of social history,” says Erin Lee, head of archive at the National Theatre in London, which has filed the programmes of every show it has staged since its opening night in 1963....
...If this number were below $5bn Lyft would have a 6 per cent margin, ceteris paribus, though ceteris paribus really isn’t how P&L statements work....
...Consider a marble-topped table with serried ranks of mixer cans, bottles and glasses à la David Hicks, or a bar cart or butler’s tray, which takes up barely any room at all....
...There can’t be that much further to go before people start hiring butlers. “I’m just off to the high street. Does Madam want anything from L’Occitane?”...
...I also love my black Louis Vuitton roller [case] with grey accents and my double-L monogram on the side....
...That’s F-L-I-C. For more information about your rights as a tenant, do check out the Generation Rent website. Jason Butler is on Instagram and Twitter. He’s @jbthewealthman. Timi is @mrmoneyjar....
...Captained by head butler Jean-Baptiste Crabit, an earnest blue-eyed Frenchman, the team offers much more than unparalleled room service to guests....
...The most unhappy real-life subject is likely to be butler Paul Burrell, rendered by Bruce Dow as a dead ringer for former presidential adviser Steve Bannon....
...There is a beautiful traditional art materials shop called L Cornelissen & Son in London and they have so many nice things, from paper to oil and brushes....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would be a butler. It would give me huge satisfaction to run a great house....
...Our butler, Rudolfo, unpacked our crumpled clothes then slid our luggage under the super-king-size bed....
...Or, until recently, Knightsbridge, where a tangle of steel L-beams poked out from behind a funereal black hoarding wrapped around an entire city block beside Harvey Nichols....
...Ed was sceptical: but mid-conversation a butler announced the arrival of Black. “Let Leon wait,” Epstein said....
...The butler was lazy. He just threw away the wooden cases, put the bottles on a shelf and never moved them, so the labels at the front were much more soiled than the ones at the back....
...As befits an ex-director of the London School of Economics, he demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of recessions, be they “U-shaped or L-shaped or, er, some other letter”....
...Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto Alagna in France sang a duet from L’elisir d’amore with Alagna brandishing a champagne bottle and dancing round the room....
...So I think what we’re doing is more important than ever,” said Simon Butler, director of Migrate Art....
...Santa Barbara County£44.40 james@tigervines.com Matthiasson, Matthiasson Vineyard Ribolla Gialla 2017 Napa Valley$45-$54 various US retailers REDS Mountain Tides Petite Sirah 2018 California$19.99 K & L£22.95...
...“Our job is in no sense to try and throw people out,” says Dave Butler, chief executive of the UK Apartment Association, an industry group. “Voids are the absolute last thing we want.”...
...The house has an L-shaped layout of 9,515sq ft, and is priced at $9.75m through Sotheby’s International Realty....
...And while there are a handful of five-star hotels — most notably Le Blizzard and Les Barmes de l’Ours — bigger players have stayed away, until now....
...Three years on lees and then a low 4g/l dosage. A tight, harmonious wine as emphatic as its maker. Good value direct from the UK importer....
...Residual sugar (just 4.5g/l) is negligible....
...The new big thing for French haute joaillerie is “l’appartement”, where brands offer an “at home” atmosphere to captivate clients, encouraging them to linger while they shop....
International Edition