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...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...In the words of Archbishop John of Sultaniya, he had “the Tartar countenance and a white beard a l’espagnol”....
...I interviewed him earlier this month, sat on bar stools at the far end of Brutto’s L-shaped bar (this was, he said, his personal “best table”)....
...When L’Oreal needed online descriptions across thousands of its different beauty products for retailers around the world, WPP was able to use AI to create a unique page for each....
...That brightening outlook is tempting others including CVC Capital, General Atlantic and L Catterton to follow suit. CVC is likely to be the first to take the plunge next year....
...Perhaps the defining image of alfresco dining is Édouard Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe”....
...Singer Shingai’s ebullient indie stagecraft found its equal in Marisha Wallace’s Broadway presence....
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
...Van der Velden’s designs come to life at an L-shaped bench, with the typical half-moon cut into it enabling the jeweller to work up close. A tool display board hangs above it....
...I care about storytelling and l care for how I make people feel when they watch something of mine. I don’t want to waste your time.”...
...Just outside Grenoble, the Col de l’Arzelier resort, for example, was founded in 1967 and by the 1980s had six lifts....
...Later, in Port Byron, another historical marker solemnly informed us that a local man, Amos S King, “gifted a bible to Pres Abraham Lincoln in 1861....
...If the serve works, if the movement is there . . . watching him will again be, for some, a “religious experience” (copyright David Foster Wallace)....
...Écrasez l’infâme — “crush infamy” — the phrase he had coined in 1759, became his war cry, used over and again, occasionally as his signature....
...The Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London; wallacecollection.org...
...By the 1800s the picture was in France, and titled “La Danse des Saisons, ou l’image de la vie humaine”....
...Gather your assets First, in the run-up to retirement, make sure you’re looking at all your investments and old pensions, advises Emma Byron, managing director of L&G Retail Retirement....
...L&G has seen no evidence of this, either in public data, or from its own customers....
...Cherry Blossoms runs from 6 July to 2 January at Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, 261 Boulevard Raspail, 75014 Paris; fondationcartier.com Hirst’s hits...
...BDT Capital Partners, the banking boutique founded by former Goldman Sachs banker Byron Trott that advised Puig, will also invest....
...Passing by the wonderfully refurbished, but firmly closed, Wallace Collection, the museum housing one of London’s richest private art collections, we cross an eerily deserted Oxford Street, which in normal...
...Matthew L Tompkins is an experimental psychologist and professional magician....
...L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’, by Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe...
...L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’, by Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Knopf, RRP$30 Letitia Landon or LEL as she styled herself,...
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