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...The Hotel George V in Paris provided the backdrop as models paraded to the disconcertingly skittish strains of composer Pierre Boulez’s surrealist work Le Marteau sans Maître....
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...Specialists including Rollo Whately and Arnold Wiggins & Sons in London’s St James’s, as well as a number of Parisian dealers such as Maison Samson, are the go-to places for gilt antique frames – a growing...
...“The shape is almost a perfect V and offers a glimpse of hope that economic effect might be shortlived,” said Daniel Bergvall, economist at SEB....
...Additional reporting by Adam Samson laurence.fletcher@ft.com...
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...V. Goings, chief executive of Tupperware Brands, noting that he has denied requests from presidents of “both parties” to give speeches at its corporate campus....
...Investors clamoured to buy Nutanix shares given the dearth of new offerings this year, said Lise Buyer, a former Google executive who worked on its IPO and is now an adviser at Class V Group....
...There is historical precedence for such a scenario: the 2000 election was ultimately decided in mid-December in the now famous Bush v. Gore Supreme Court ruling....
...That same method of stowing the wings in road-mode is used in the US Samson Switchblade – which as a three-wheeler is subject to more liberal rules as a ground vehicle....
...David Thomson is author of ‘The Big Screen’ (Allen Lane, £25) ‘Hollywood Costume’ is at the V&A, London, October 20-January 27 2013, www.vam.ac.uk...
...When Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created Superman in 1938, as fascism took Europe in its grip, they intended him to be, in Siegel’s words, “a character like Samson, Hercules and all the strongmen I ever...
...Yet even this contains elaborate Italianate motifs, and in style is evocative of one of the V&A’s most magnificent secular pieces, the gilded silver nautilus shell table sculpture, the Burghley Nef, made...
...Giambologna’s ferociously energetic “Samson Slaying a Philistine” (c. 1562) was a gift to Charles I from Spain....
...Technology will also be integrated into the V&A’s exhibition....
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