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...Benjamin Grosvenor has the full armoury of technique and musicianship at his fingertips and there was never any doubt that he would command both the huge hall and the occasion....
...Arte The brand’s showroom on Rue de l’Abbaye will be a portal to Hawaii through new wallpapers inlaid or embroidered with rattan and raffia....
...“I don’t care so much about getting hundreds of thousands of likes on an Instagram picture – I prefer to have 20 people attending a class at L’École [Van Cleef & Arpels’ own jewellery school] for the first...
...Hair, Blake Henderson at CLM using L’Oréal. Make-up, Rebecca Wordingham at Bryant using Surratt and Augustinus Bader. Set design, Phoebe Shakespeare. Photographer’s assistant, Dan Douglas....
...Today’s top stories Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled Israel’s plans for Gaza after hostilities end in the enclave with a formal proposal that directly contradicts the objectives of the US....
...A tank dress in putty-coloured sequins and baguette rhinestones presented a more wearable option for the Oscars, (perhaps minus the trompe l’oeil outline of boxer shorts)....
...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...She tells how her latest collection, La Trahison de l’Objet, was created in direct response to what she describes as Lebanon’s “financial fallout and ugly consequences borne by its people” and explores the...
...March 28 to June 30; further information and tickets here ‘Impressionisti: l’alba della modernità’ (Impressionists: The Dawn of Modernity), Museo della Fanteria In honour of the 150th anniversary of the...
....£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....
...Along with George Benjamin’s pithy Picture a day like this, it makes a fitting 75th anniversary present for France’s biggest opera festival, an institution which has pushed boundaries as much as it has maintained...
...Pech took Monreal to a production of Prokofiev’s L’Angelo di Fuoco (The Fiery Angel) for their first date. Monreal, who’d never been to the Teatro, loved it....
...Benjamin Haddad, a member of parliament for France’s ruling Renaissance party, certainly thinks so....
...Hair, Shunsuke Meguro at Future Rep using L’Oréal Pro. Make-up, Dan Delgado using Aurelia London. Photographer’s assistants, Will Richards and Damian Flack. Stylist’s assistant, Aylin Bayhan....
...Far-right leader Itamar Ben-Gvir emerges as Israel’s kingmaker Less than 18 months after being ousted by a sprawling, eight-party coalition, Benjamin Netanyahu appears poised to return to power....
...Like d’Holbach, famous for hosting a twice-weekly salon that attracted Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, they entertain clients here....
...The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka, translated by Ross Benjamin (Schocken) Complete and uncensored diaries from the master of the nightmarish in a new translation that features material available...
...L Catterton has appointed Shahab Rashid as managing partner and co-head of its new private credit business as the $33bn in assets private equity firm expands into debt investments....
...I’m not sure I want a tiger trompe-l’oeil in my cupboard or a knitted cake stand in my room....
...The first piece he settled on was a work by Benjamin Sabatier. “It was made from ice-cube trays filled with crumpled pages from magazines,” he says....
...Benjamin L TsangNew Territories, Hong Kong...
...Benjamin and Monk talk animatedly and at cross purposes about 12-tone music and 12-bar blues. Beckett has another beer. Nignon produces the bécassines à l’eau de vie promptly....
.../ From Robert L Read, San Francisco, CA, US...
...And the best gift I’ve received recently is a green straw marquetry box made for me by L’Atelier Jallu. I use it for keeping my jewellery inside – or sometimes just as a decorative box....
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