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...With marble and dark wood (both sourced in Spain), earthy tones and a mid-century design aesthetic employed throughout, Thompson is where Mad Men meets Madrid....
...Carmen Reinhart and Belen Sbrancia have estimated that for the US and UK the annual liquidation of debt thanks to those negative interest rates averaged 3 per cent to 4 per cent of GDP a year....
...From CDMX to Playa del Carmen via Puebla and Acapulco, they’ve been ahead of the curve....
...“You have original mountain homes in Savoyard stone and wood, and high altitude, but prices are at an absolute premium.”...
...A hand-painted wood carving would show up as a holder for some new kitchen gadget,” recalls the Brooklyn-based artist. This idea of transformation “seemed to always be coming.”...
...Stiffly determined aristocrats — Velázquez’s moustache-curling “Count-Duke of Olivares”, Goya’s wigged, powdered “Manuel Lapeña” — tower above us, while a laughing “Lucienne Bréval as Carmen” shines in the...
...“For certain architects, it’s their legacy to have built in a certain style,” says Carmen Beals, who curated the Nevada show. “But his legacy was to provide homes that the client was going to love.”...
...Here she enjoys twisting classics such as Carmen or Moby Dick for the audience – Pinocchio is next....
...You might also find him with a chainsaw, out in the fields, cutting wood....
...Cathie Wood, Ark’s chief executive and lead portfolio manager, had previously said that her company’s funds had a “self-imposed” restriction on investing more than 10 per cent of assets in a single company...
...In 2011 the widow of Swiss billionaire Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza chose a Baroque palace in Málaga to open the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga of Spanish 19th-century art....
...After the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, he called for exchange rate stability among the main currencies, a return to the gold standard, or even a global currency....
...I should declare an interest: I helped launch it nine years ago, and travelled all over Italy finding the best artisans to feature there – glassblowers, wood carvers, ceramicists and furniture designers....
...I even came across a textile made of wood, which is processed from the bark of a sakura cherry tree – I will use it in my next collection....
...In contrast, after 1945, official lending remained strong over the course of the entire Bretton Woods era....
...“By some measures, the euro plays no larger a role than the Deutschemark and French franc that it replaced,” according to a new study by economists Ethan Ilzetzki, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff....
...Older traders could be found at Cipriani on Wall Street, where the famous bellini cocktails are served in wood-panelled rooms or on a terrace between stone ionic columns....
...Weird dollies are discovered in the woods and the missing kids were out trick or treating only a week prior, talking to “two ghosts”....
...But in midwinter you can be alone: we were the only people in the Arab bathhouses, the gardens of Carmen de los Martires and even the Convento de Santa Isabel la Real....
...The decor is all dark wood, with old carbines resting behind reception with bayonets fixed....
...Over the years, many women writers, from Austen to Angela Carter and, more recently, Lauren Beukes and Carmen Maria Machado, who read Radcliffe’s rousing stories, went on to tell their own....
...Carmen Hijosa, founder of Ananas Anam, was in Manila on business when she realised the extent of pollution caused by leather production....
...When he was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2011, one of the judges, the feminist publisher Carmen Callil, resigned in protest....
...One of the three, Carmen Herrera, is — astonishingly — still alive, and at the age of 102 is enjoying a new wave of international acclaim....
...These plain, monochromatic hunks of painted wood are a bit of a let-down....
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