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As the jewellery house revives its most famous muse, Vivienne Becker uncovers her origins
...A second wave of inspiration came from a visit to Petworth House in Sussex, seeing the wood carvings of Grinling Gibbons. She thought: “How would that look in miniature?”...
...In particular, the Parisian maison Chaumet has been shaped by Joséphine’s story; the house was originally commissioned to make jewels for Napoleon’s coronation in 1804, after which Joséphine became a client...
...He notes that most of the existing loans available against art, including through the auction houses, start at $1mn....
...house Courrèges’s Marais address throughout February....
...In the late 1990s, Japanese bankers told me that they made property loans because this seemed “safer” than corporate loans, because house prices always went up....
...But many whites, like the Becker family outside Dallas, are moving out to the next ring of suburbs in search of newer homes....
...Dirk Becker’s sets and Annette Braun’s costumes are part of Leipzig Opera’s new push to present environmentally sustainable theatre: almost all of them are recycled from the house’s storerooms....
...Regulators, including Fed vice-chair for supervision Michael Barr and FDIC chair Martin Gruenberg, will testify about the collapsed banks in a separate hearing before the House Financial Services Committee...
...De Becker gave $4.5mn to American Values....
...The most valuable rarities, especially pinks and occasional blues, are the territory of specialist diamond houses such as Moussaieff, as well as Tiffany & Co, Harry Winston, Graff and Boghossian; while yellow...
...I lost my house in Germany, my flat in London, my house in Mallorca.” Has he learnt his lesson? “What lessons should I have to learn? That I have to be careful with my money. Yes....
...Also, February Nationwide House Price Index....
...A separate hearing in the House addressed oversight of US bank regulators....
...For the Galons Dior collection, the house’s creative director of jewellery, Victoire de Castellane, was able to replicate the effect of braided fabric, a signature couture detail, by mixing a multitude of...
...Chanel, too, is making shapes with a series of three, limited-edition watches that shrink the house’s classic Première, which mimics the shape of the No 5 perfume bottle....
...At the time Greg Becker was very calm about the situation....
...Bragging that you have the “coolest banking job in the entire world” (Top Line, FT Weekend, March 18) as Greg Becker, boss of the now collapsed Silicon Valley Bank, did should be taken as a red flag....
...One bad read Greg Becker, former chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank, testifies before the Senate Banking Committee today. Here is his prepared testimony....
...Greg Becker, SVB’s former chief executive, sold $3.6mn worth of the bank’s stock on February 27 under a previously agreed trading plan, less than two weeks before SVB failed....
...There’s the independent publishing house he co-founded with a friend in his twenties; his young adult children Rakel and Elis; his 35-year friendship with the now prominent painter Gustav Becker....
...But it was in the 1960s that conceptual, cerebral moving jewels emerged from the hands of Friedrich Becker and Pol Bury as part of the kinetic art movement....
...Julia Becker, chair of the supervisory board of the newspaper publishing group Funke Media, wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that they had “hit the heart of our industry”....
...mimicked a Parisian side street, complete with pothole covers and the sound of gently honking horns (courtesy of sound designer Nicolas Becker)....
...The client works with the “planner”, looking deep into the stone, seeing every mark and layer of its crystallisation process using the brand’s in-house scanners....
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