Hints and tips:
...Omega by Andrew Grima limited-edition c1970s gold and faceted-quartz-crystal Teak wristwatch, from the Jeux d’Or collection, POA, somlo.com Model, Robert Perry Smith at Chapter....
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...An avuncular, grey-bearded presence behind a pair of decks, Bovell introduced Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo, then a protégée, L Dot, an attitudinal teenage rapper....
...jumper, €110 Private White VC Ventile cotton Harrington 3.0 jacket, £595 Michael Kors metal-frame Pierce sunglasses, £170 Luca Faloni leather bag, £725 Crockett & Jones suede Chelsea 5 boots, £470 L’...
...Inspired by the 18th-century bronze and ceramic candelabras flanking the hall’s entrance, the works have tentacle-like forms in green, pink and yellow hues that reflect the colour palette of the trompe l’...
...“There weren’t many rates below 5 per cent last week, and there are a few more now,” said Aaron Strutt, director at broker Trinity Financial....
...Carlyle recently beat out HarbourView and Blackstone’s Hipgnosis for Katy Perry’s catalogue with a bid for $225mn, according to several people familiar with the auction....
...British tennis player Fred Perry, who won Wimbledon three times, launched his version in 1952 with a laurel wreath as its signifier....
...Previous acts and artists include The 1975, Katy Perry, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Janet Jackson....
...On an interest-only deal, that would fall to £917 a month, according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...While the sell-off has affected other parts of the market, Flamingo’s portfolio “hasn’t moved that much in terms of value”, said Aaron Wright, a member who helped form the DAO....
...Perhaps the defining image of alfresco dining is Édouard Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe”....
...Küfer joined Disguise in 2015, having previously worked in financial roles at companies including Lidl, L’Oréal, Ultra Motor and A2B Bikes....
...“[A]lmost every legacy international news outlet said that because of our “#Bitcoin bet”, El Salvador was going to default on its debt by January 2023,” he lamented, claiming there were “[l]iterally, hundreds...
...Aaron Strutt, a mortgage broker at Trinity Financial, said: “There are fewer 95 per cent loan-to-value mortgages and they’re more expensive....
...When Christie’s offered the 3m-high bird-esque fountain L’Oiseau Amoureux in its 2020 selling exhibition of outdoor sculpture, it “sold in excess of $600,000 from its former home on the edge of Lake Geneva...
...With music director Louis Langrée conducting, the MMFO warmed up with Joseph Bologne’s stylish overture to L’amant anonyme. Feelings were good all around, the crowd applauded each movement....
...Artists have long explored the medium of wearability – everyone from Salvador Dalí to Grayson Perry and Anish Kapoor has tried their hand at jewellery – and art jeweller Cora Sheibani has for some years...
...“The base rate changes are coming thick and fast,” says David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C....
...L.S. Lowry has always been popular in the UK, but incredibly, not overseas....
...It’s rather trompe l’oeil.” The reading room that Phil Game built in a client’s garden for their punkish daughter was similarly eye-catching....
...This year, showgoers wore their support for Ukraine in quiet but noticeable ways, in the form of yellow and blue ribbons (Tyler Perry), pins (Benedict Cumberbatch), pocket squares (Jason Momoa), and blue...
...Aaron Chandrasakaran, Citigroup’s head of Hong Kong investment banking, is leaving to join Jefferies Financial Group, per Bloomberg....
...Aaron Strutt, product director at broker Trinity Financial, said one client recently decided to pay £12,000 in exit fees on two five-year mortgages in order to lock in a low rate over 10 years....
...Reassuringly expensive-looking, with taut, smooth brown flesh, and draped lazily in a pool of oil, like five St Tropez socialites in a Slim Aarons photograph....
International Edition