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...“The combination of texture, humour and the trompe l’oeil design ‘hanging’ with game honours old traditions… For Janet and Cameron, God really is in the details....
...of Fiat Industrial SpA – but her home emanates a sense of her formidable character, with Cecil Beaton portraits and Capote Black and White Ball snapshots attesting to her social power....
...His trainer Henry Cecil described Frankel as the best horse he had ever seen and, in all likelihood, “the best there’s ever been”, and in 2012 he retired following an undefeated 14-race career....
...During a tour of Phoenix 2, a 90-metre vessel which the Cecil Wright brokerage is offering for €125mn at the Monaco show, I meet its interior designer....
...“It’s like walking into a dream world,” says designer Cumber, of the experience of entering the golden atrium, where the stairwell walls are decked with original Cecil Beaton sketches, and into the rosy...
...Tom and Caitlin Morton have been living the #vanlife since 2015. They say “advancements in connectivity and power technology” have driven the trend....
...“I’ve always been fascinated by the De Gournay world,” says Moralioglu, from the brand’s sumptuous headquarters, surrounded by its panoramic 19th-century L’Eden design....
...Crossword 16,407: J Welsh, London; VW Durham, Cumbria, England; Rowan McKittrick, London Polymath 1,062: Susan J Tzotzos, Austria Crossword 16,401: David Jeffrey, Edinburgh; Michael Capparis, New York; J Morton...
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...Sycamore and L Brands, the lingerie company’s parent, mutually decided to terminate the agreement....
...In 1906, Leopold II created L’Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK) along with a diamond-mining business and railway company to exploit Congo’s mineral resources....
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...I actually read the French version, which has a prettier title, Le Charme Discret de l’Intestin....
.../ From Paul L Davies, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law, University of Oxford, UK...
...From €34; lamy.com The grooming staple I’m never without is Diptyque’s L’Ombre dans l’Eau....
...He loves things that are imitations of great design, he says, or that turn it on its head through illusion, like trompe-l’œil, which gives the appearance of a third dimension where none exists....
...Rue de l’Hôpital 19, 2000 Neuchâtel (+4132-725 2452) The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. I like his message and the aesthetics....
...“Study for a Portrait of P.L.” (1962), an unsparing depiction of the artist’s lover Peter Lacy scowling on a sofa, is the first Bacon picture where internal organs burst out though the surface of the skin...
...The sobriquet was apt: in 1912, Meyer shot the Ballets Russes’ lascivious production of “L’après-midi d’un faune”, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, and created a rare handmade book....
...David Hollingworth, director at L&C Mortgages, says interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages had already been edging up since Mark Carney, BoE governor, dropped hints of a rise in base rates in September:...
...Eleven years later, Philip Morton Shand, the Duchess of Cornwall’s grandfather, exhibited the furniture of Alvar Aalto at Fortnum & Mason’s....
...A book of John F Kennedy portraits (£1,500-£2,000) is dedicated to the duchess by the former US president with the sign-off “L.O”, a sly reference to the sisters’ habit of calling him “Loved One”....
...Her collaborations with artists such as Salvador Dalí, Cecil Beaton and Jean Cocteau broke down the barriers between the world of dressmaking and the fine arts....
...Gove then draws parallels between Cameron’s team and the cabinet assembled by the supposedly nepotistic Tory prime minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil....
...Hamish Pringle, strategic adviser to 23red, a marketing company, says beauty product companies such as L’Oréal have successfully taken the approach of featuring older actresses such as Jane Fonda....
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