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...Among his highlights for next week are Design Miami, which opens its first edition in the French capital (October 18-22, L’hôtel de Maisons)....
...L’hôtel de Maisons, however, wasn’t the first choice....
...September to October; further information here October Art Paris+ par Art Basel, Grand Palais The French leg of the Art Basel machine and a major event in the international art calendar....
...The Access works will be at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, identified with QR codes and priced in the $25,000-$285,000 range, says Noah Horowitz, chief executive of Art Basel....
...The event will now be in the 18th-century L’hôtel de Maisons, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés....
...These marshlands — 45,000 hectares in total — are a perplexing mosaic of lagoons, dykes, canals and salt marshes through which pristine-white little egrets gingerly step like A-listers at a country fair....
...It replied: Calais-Ville to Paris Gare du Nord, Gare de l’Est to Strasbourg, Strasbourg to Basel, Basel to Bern, Bern to Brig, Brig to Milan, Milan to Rome, arriving at 3.10pm on Monday....
...A talking point at this year’s Art Basel was the Basel Social Club, an informal gathering of artists in a disused factory where artworks, including performances, appeared alongside ad hoc bars, sound stages...
...Basel III ❤️ deposits. Bleed to the digital euro would erode banks’ Net Stable Funding Ratios as well as Liquidity Coverage Ratios....
...Tanna compares the vibe to the recently founded, and well-received, Basel Social Club....
...Original engraved menu boards on the wall that date from a bygone brasserie era, with items ranging from eau de vie and calvados to chocolat liégeois via soupe à l’oignon, set the tone for today’s still...
...Clients often customise their wine-cabinet door “so it fits with their home bar”, says Tim Lewis of Sorrell Cellars, which creates bespoke wine storage for A-listers and five-star hotels....
...“This idea of the eternal wanderer, or l’étranger, stayed with him his whole life.”...
...Remember that at the time a lot of people thought this would become a redux of the S&L crisis and that a recession was unavoidable as banks retrenched....
...For such A-listers, the third floor holds a private apartment with living room, dining room, hairdressing suite and double treatment salon....
...the moment when the “Quick fix” package was drafted and the date it went into force, markets had calmed down, and comparatively few European banks made use of the permission to filter their unrealised P&L....
...“You can’t be nude [in public], but you can wear costumes with trompe l’oeil body parts,” she says. “Absurd! Here, I’ll show you.”...
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...And last year he essentially removed an entire wall of the Renzo Piano-designed Fondation Beyeler in Basel and let a pond flood the museum....
...Now it makes sense why such a powerhouse line-up of international A-listers — Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, plus less renowned stars Diane Kruger, Fan Bingbing and man-candy Edgar Ramírez...
...With more than 250 galleries, including 43 first-timers based in countries from Uruguay to Zimbabwe, Art Basel Miami Beach might be the most renowned fair in town this week — but it’s by no means the only...
...Christie’s latest work goes on view in Switzerland, to coincide with Art Basel (June 16-19), before showing in the London sale previews....
...The Ashmolean — which, thanks to the emigration of the artist’s eldest son to England, has an exceptional Pissarro collection — joins forces with Basel’s Kunstmuseum to explore the question....
...Art Basel itself has yet to find a replacement for its Americas director, Noah Horowitz, who also left this summer....
...Gray gallery brings his more recent trompe l’oeil, photographic drawing work “Pictures at an Exhibition” (2018), a huge 50-feet long, the gallery confirms....
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