Hints and tips:
...Odey arrived each day before markets opened at 8am, dressed in an expensive suit with pink or red braces. A gold bar lay on his desk, serving as a paperweight....
...Hanging above the globe is an antique lantern that Leith commissioned her niece Amy Douglas to customise with gold leaf and copper cut-outs of birds and monkeys....
...She has yet to sell her Dali- and Schiaparelli-inspired, 18ct yellow-gold, orange sapphire and black diamond lobster earrings, with hanging fire opal, and a few other pieces from her Homage to Surrealism...
...Dostoevsky’s novel ends with the Speech at the Stone, a eulogy for a boy who pays for the sins of his father with his life....
...“Burmese stones have always been scarce.” These jewels, which glow with a clear electric red due to their high chromium and low iron content, have always been desirable....
...The set of plain yellow or white gold pieces is now to expand — in physical stores too — with beige-gold rings and six diamond-embellished reworkings: four pavé rings and two cuffs encrusted with a lion...
...Ms De Haene is wearing large silver rings, a silver necklace and dangly silver hoops; she feels that sporting more expensive jewellery these days is “offensive” in a world with such dramatic income disparities...
...We spent three nights at one of its villas at Kalo Ambeli, another simple but sophisticated house, with a large bougainvillea-shaded terrace and a pool with views over a headland, a lone white chapel and...
...ruby and gold chain, by Cartier” — are warranted....
...The streets are not paved with gold in this grittily powerful novel....
...The stones are set on 18k white and yellow gold and framed by a mix of white and yellow diamonds. His efforts paid off as 45 per cent of his emerald pieces sold on the first day of JCK Luxury....
...Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy, by Tim Moore, Yellow Jersey, RRP£14.99 In 2000, travel writer Moore cycled the entire route of that year’s Tour de France, a feat that formed the basis of the...
...its clear diagrams and straightforward illustrations....
...In one of the tacky tourist shops of Bourbon Street, there is a big pile of T-shirts with the slogan “FUBP”, and a design of the company’s green and yellow “Helios” logo smeared in brown....
...He wore a purple badge with a gold star, the symbol of the Vietnam National Liberation Front movement....
...In London the Prons are showing a 2006 table from Marco Zanuso with jagged geometric patterns in blue and hot pink; a tongue-shaped table in gaudy gold; a black-and-orange sofa with boulder-like cushions...
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