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...L’Oréal recently reported how an AI-powered app delivered a 63 percentage point uplift in the conversion rate of inquiries into sales compared with traditional counter selling methods....
...This is another painted room, with trompe l’oeil decoration by Fernand Renard....
...L’Ami Louis, Paris This place is no secret, and had in fact been on my list of Paris restaurants to try for a long time. Finally, one freezing night at the beginning of December, I got to visit....
...Titled “L’être et le néant” (“Being and Nothingness”) after Jean-Paul Sartre’s book, it is inspired by a surreal picture by photoreporter Chang Chao-Tang depicting a headless human shadow....
...At FT Globetrotter, we are particularly excited about the Pompidou Centre’s big Brâncuși show in March, the opening of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s Paris bolt-hole, Villa Windsor, in the summer and,...
...fails majority / From Kai L Chan, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivy League credentials of those ruling on education / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...In a new paper, former White House climate adviser Paul Bledsoe and former trade official Edward Gresser suggest a neat solution: Europe could be cut in on some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s subsidies...
...For sceptics, an obvious comparison is the case of John Edwards....
...edward.luce@ft.com...
...If you want a sceptical take on Alvin Bragg’s charge sheet, you could do no better than read John Judis in The Liberal Patriot. “Bragg’s indictment is nothing to boast about”....
...edward.luce@ft.com This opinion piece has been updated since it was first published...
...Anyway, here are some Morgan Stanley charts: Venture activity has undergone its “[l]argest peak to trough swing in history”, writes analyst Edward Stanley....
...The Hotel Georgia quickly became popular with the well-heeled and famous, including Hollywood stars and royalty, from Laurence Olivier and John Wayne to future British king Edward, Prince of Wales, and his...
...There are embossed and gilded friezes, trompe l’oeil painted doors, William Morris wallpapers and ceramics arranged on a plate rail in the dining room....
...It was probably only a matter of time before Touriste – the independent collection of Paris hotels that has already worked with Chloé Nègre, Dorothée Meilichzon and FT Weekend contributor Luke Edward Hall...
...Edward East played a part in disrupting the advertising industry when he co-founded the influencer marketing agency Billion Dollar Boy in 2014....
...Since graduating, Gordon has painted marbled doors in the home of designer and FT columnist Luke Edward Hall, and has just completed a master bathroom, based on Dutch Golden Age interiors, in the home of...
...Michael L Stoltz Fort Worth, TX, US...
...Additional reporting by Cheng Leng in Hong Kong and Joe Leahy in Beijing Letter in response to this article: A generous offer of Covid drugs can reset China ties / From Michael L Stoltz, Fort Worth, TX...
...Georgian papier-mâché wine bottle coasters I noticed in the window of Baggott Antiques in Stow-on-the-Wold the other week: finished in black lacquer with a broad gilt border decorated with a bold trompe-l’...
...German shoemaker Birkenstock’s IPO, meanwhile, could be valued above $8bn — unlocking a big return for its owner L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...This technology has existed since the 1960s, and if Richard Nixon hadn’t shut down the Oak Ridge National Laboratories work led by Alvin Weinberg, this energy would have been cheaper than coal, oil, and...
...Edward Luce: This dramatic moment has been long anticipated and cued by Trump himself. Yet it still retains the capacity to shock....
...Here’s hoping the “L” will recover from its case of “long Covid” soon. The city just isn’t the same without it....
...In China, the beauty market has traditionally been dominated by a clutch of foreign brands including France’s L’Oréal, South Korea’s AmorePacific, Japan’s Shiseido and American group Estée Lauder....
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