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...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...The wines were donated by David Brown, who arrived straight from his work at the wine software company Bevica, saying he’d been planning this tasting for 20 years....
...Life and death can never be separate, otherwise they have no meaning. Now with this war in Europe and the environmental change, there will be more human casualties.”...
...Beneath the surface, this picture of urban life is seriously askew....
...Or can the companies and councils that own them find a way to breathe new life into them?...
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...“Customers are definitely more interested in leather alternatives, and the idea that an investment piece has to be leather feels old-fashioned now,” says Eleanor Robinson, director of accessories at Selfridges...
...It wasn’t just Scott and Constable who indulged in this dubious practice: so did Ballantyne, Hurst Robinson, hundreds of other companies and thousands of individuals....
...The company added 10 new proprietary games on its remote game server or “RGS portfolio”....
...The first three are online until Valentine’s Day from the company’s Spotlight Media streaming site....
...In 2019, the Netherlands ranked as the best country in the world for work-life balance, according to the OECD’s Better Life Index, taking into account factors such as availability of childcare, sense of...
...There are other clues that Compass does not see that elusive V-shaped recovery....
...Speaking at the FT’s Global Boardroom event, he said: “I am not convinced that we are going to have a V-shaped recovery. I think it will be more like a U.”...
...Chipping Norton, Oxon, UK Not so new: MMT has distinguished precursors / From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...The risk of new outbreaks means it’s going to take time before life returns to normal....
...According to data from CB Insights and Willis Towers Watson, between 2012 and the first quarter of 2019, there were 627 deals involving investment in property and casualty insurtech companies....
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...That included $1.7bn of revenues from advisory assignments, with bankers at Evercore advising on Aetna’s $71bn sale to CVS Health and Comcast’s $53bn purchase of Sky....
...Simon Kirby, chief operating officer at Rolls-Royce, is stepping down just 19 months after taking the post, becoming the first high-profile casualty of the FTSE engineer’s latest restructuring....
...“Prosecco is perceived to be less serious than champagne and more life-affirming and positive than cava,” says Alexander Smith of The IWSR....
...In October, the Connecticut company agreed to pay Aetna, the health insurer, $1.45bn for an employee benefits business....
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...The failure to do so violated the “right to life” guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, the court ruled....
...Linlithgow-based cabinetmaker Callum Robinson and his architect wife Marisa Giannasi, whose company Method works to commission for private clients and big brands, also use local wood in their pieces (which...
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
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