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...These range from oils of Charles II’s mistress to Grand Tour collectables to troves of 18th-century porcelain....
...The BoE’s court of directors has commissioned a review from Ben Bernanke, former chair of the Fed, to examine the BoE’s forecasting and communications....
...Today’s visitors are “completely enveloped” by Hugo’s decor at Hauteville House, says Gérard Audinet, director of Maisons de Victor Hugo....
...Sotheby’s will offer a Diego Velázquez full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, queen of Spain and the first wife of Philip IV, for a princely $35mn in New York on February 1 2024....
...“Every time I went into these incredible houses for portrait sittings I kept seeing other corners of the rooms I wanted to paint,” says Phoebe, who trained at the Charles H Cecil Studios in Florence, London...
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...Those with celebrity provenance also drive up the price; Michael Caine’s 1968 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Drophead Coupe recently sold for £135,000 at H&H Classics....
...“This city was built to export, but that’s never been my interest,” says Emma Bridgewater, 62, the company’s creative director and founder....
...Also, the European Scrutiny Committee will grill foreign secretary Lord David Cameron in an evidence session about the UK’s relationship with the EU US: former Venezuelan military intelligence director...
...The film-maker’s mother is Carol Joffe, a set decorator whose credits include Woody Allen’s Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters, while her late stepfather was Allen’s longtime producer Charles H Joffe....
...“Sales were enormous,” says managing director Henry Deakin. “We built part of the factory [in Birmingham] on the back of it.”...
...Stephen Mayes, his longtime friend and executive director of the Tim Hetherington Trust, recalls the first time he encountered Tim’s work....
...Charles Hind is chief curator and curator of drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects....
...But in 2017 he put Charles, one of his five children, at the helm of the project. “Now, I am integrating Charles a lot....
...There’s a similar post-HoC issue with Edwina Currie, Robert Kilroy-Silk, and Kezia Dugdale (h/t the i paper for putting together a list)....
...The news came as a surprise to many outside of the business, though an email to staff from Charles Stewart, Sotheby’s chief executive, says that the decision was “planned for some time”....
...She learnt to play the piano after her grandmother saved up enough S&H Green Stamps to buy her an instrument in the S&H store. “I have tons of hobbies,” Cox continues....
...Schwab winter business update, Chevron Q4, Colgate-Palmolive Q4, H&M FY, HCA Healthcare Q4, LG Electronics Q3, Rémy Cointreau Q3 sales update, YouGov H1 trading statement World events Finally, here is...
...A former head of the US Special Forces, Admiral William H McRaven served in dangerous missions as a Navy Seal for 37 years. He also ran the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011....
...H Cecil Studios in Florence....
...Yet, in contrast to earlier novels such as Restoration and Music and Silence, where the protagonists’ lives were set against the meticulously described courts of Charles II and Christian IV of Denmark, she...
...“Both are simple ways of getting people to engage directly with the place,” says Charles Carmignac, Edouard’s son, who is the foundation’s director. “To feel part of it, and to enjoy it more.”...
...The company has since collaborated with Puma, H&M and Diesel....
...Visitors to the 1997 Sensation exhibition of Charles Saatchi’s collection might recall “Dead Dad” and, notes Polly Robinson Gaer, executive director at the gallery: “It can now be unveiled to a new generation...
...As John O’Ceallaigh, director of luxury travel consultancy LUTE, says: “A lot of the travel restrictions have become a smokescreen for governments’ failings at home....
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