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...In 2005, in his mid-40s, Schagrin, who worked in real estate, decided to open Crush, with Nieporent and Gruberman as investors, and put a small portion of his rare-wine collection for sale....
...The pair live in the affluent LA neighbourhood of Bel Air, in an estate built in 1938 by Hollywood architect Paul R Williams, who designed houses for Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball throughout his career....
...Montecito, Santa Barbara, that she described to Architectural Digest as being her “forever home”....
...The notion of pausing is embodied by work that Edmund de Waal has made for the New Art Centre at Wiltshire estate Roche Court....
...Comprising four historic townhouses on Valletta’s St Barbara Bastion, it’s a five-minute walk from St John’s Co-Cathedral, famed for its Caravaggios....
...Pace, for example, has works by Jean Dubuffet, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith and Leo Villareal among its offerings....
...I was lucky that Jean Cassin and his adored wife Ginette more or less adopted me. Do you have time for personal financial planning?...
...Few modern and contemporary artists can compete with the dizzy prices now achieved by Jean-Michel Basquiat, almost 30 years after the American artist’s death from a drug overdose aged 27....
...Freedman now runs her own Manhattan art gallery, representing Frank Stella, Lee Bontecou and the estate of Jules Olitski....
...Highlights of the latter include paintings by LS Lowry and sculpture by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore....
...James Lovegrove Picture books A White Butterfly, by Laurie Cohen and Barbara Ortelli, Minedition, RRP£10.99/$12.99 This board book explores colours and their associations....
...Sotheby’s, meanwhile, is unveiling long unseen drawings from the estate of Florentine dealer Giancarlo Baroni....
...CRIME A Private Business, by Barbara Nadel, Quercus, RRP£18.99, 320 pages A female stand-up comic known for her edgy routines turns to PIs Hakim and Arnold to find out if someone is stalking her but she...
...Meanwhile, down the hallway, Barbara from Bogotá is having a pit stop at a Starbucks café after several hours of hard shopping....
...Why We Lie, by Dorothy Rowe, Fourth Estate RRP£18.99, 384 pages Lies, in Dorothy Rowe’s book, form the basic coinage of human exchange....
...Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick, Granta RRP£8.99 Much-praised 2010 winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, this is a painstakingly researched and gruelling account...
...He initially helped Charles Banks with his Santa Barbara wine venture Jonata (pronounced Ho-na-ta and apparently named after the Spanish land grant in southern California)....
...Also consigned from the US is “Two forms (Domino)” by Barbara Hepworth, sold by the actress Lauren Bacall, with a £50,000 top estimate....
...She had a list of clients that was the envy of the industry, including Barbara Streisand, Gene Hackman, Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neal....
...Beachside houses there are owned by figures such as Barbara Corcoran, a grand Manhattan estate agent, but they share the sand with everyone else....
...Barbara Ehrenreich celebrates the underground tradition of carnival public dance and its revival in the 1960s as rock celebration....
...Barbara Walters led the media tributes, telling the guests at the Four Seasons, who included Walter Cronkite, Joan Collins, Wyclef Jean and Salman Rushdie, that Clooney was a creative and committed liberal...
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