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...This year’s big crowd-pleaser, in the airy Palais de l’Archevêché, is a retrospective of the great American colourist Saul Leiter....
...She was Bette Davis, Joseph L Mankiewicz and Darryl F Zanuck rolled into one. But it may be a key aspect of her staying power....
...“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...
...“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....
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...Jonathan Gibbs has a thing for trompe l’oeil; his debut novel, 2014’s Randall or The Painted Grape, portrayed a Young British Artist who was a dead ringer for Damien Hirst....
...EV/EBITDA of 270x FY21 BBG consensus); after all, IFRS 15 means that the new Solutions contracts are only reflected in the P&L with a lag....
...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....
...Table 1 starts with RR’s u/l EBITA in 2022E and then deducts the utilisation of cash provisions, the excess of investment over D&A, then interest and tax....
.../ From Paul L Davies, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law, University of Oxford, UK...
...More recent pieces have remixed Arthur Miller’s The Crucible with “random readings” taken from Burroughs and Huxley (1984’s L.S.D.), deconstructed Eugene O’Neill with techniques derived from Japanese kabuki...
...At the back of our minds is the story our guide Dickson Dube had told earlier, involving a lion that had clambered into a safari vehicle....
...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....
...“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....
...Beware bats Martin Dickson is the FT’s former deputy editor Photographs: Beasley Dickson Architects; Carl Bigmore...
...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”....
...“People who move up here now want to stand by the window and really engage with the landscape and the weather outside,” says Dickson....
...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....
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