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...“In the long term, productivity growth in the US is projected to be higher than in Europe,” said Bart van Ark, managing director at the UK-based Productivity Institute....
...The cigar ring we know today owes a debt to Catherine the Great who, it is said, had her smokes silk-wrapped to avoid staining her fingers; to 19th-century English aristocrats whose white gloves suffered...
...Van, a bustling city near Turkey’s border with Iran, has become a frontline in Erdoğan’s effort to repel irregular migrants....
...Dance company Junk Ensemble welcomes Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria” (c1615-17) to Birmingham by performing tableaux mirroring her compositions....
...Both Van Hulle and Nixon are Beckett scholars (they are co-directors of the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project) and so there’s plenty of Beckettiana here....
...“There is a lot more competition in that sphere of the industry,” said Natalia Van Boxel, an analyst at GlobalData....
...Catherine Rénier, CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre, says that her brand made its first retrograde in 1938 and, 85 years on, the retrograde is back in the Reverso Tribute Chronograph, which uses a large seconds display...
...Elsewhere, Thom Browne frankensteined suiting fabrics together, Dries Van Noten patchworked different embellished materials and John Galliano made shirts that melded into Western-style jackets at Maison...
...Steven van Rijswijk, chief executive of ING, who is also in Dubai, said the Dutch bank was keen to be part of the financing of the energy transition....
...The famously green-fingered Dries Van Noten presented a kaleidoscope of rainbow-coloured ruffled dresses, crinkled shirts and power suiting adorned with painterly petals; Dior paid tribute to its founder...
...Vincent Van Duysen, architect and designerOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong It’s a beautiful letter from a son to a mother who cannot read....
...They begin with his early direct style: “Catherine Moore” (1752), fiancée of architect William Chambers, meets us with a frank, intelligent gaze....
...For cooking at home, Bill the Butcher in Bruton sells the best herbal sausages and on Fridays, the Brixham fish van comes from Devon....
...The row over a “Sunflowers” painting by Vincent van Gogh bought by a Japanese company at Christie’s London in 1987 for £25mn deepens....
...He was working with another big-name director to scout a home, and driving in a location van with him around a neighbourhood....
...Not that there weren’t celebrities — there were several, including Schitt’s Creek actors Catherine O’Hara and Dan Levy — but the set was simple, its whiteness punctuated by colourful waist-height cubes of...
...The heat makes the flower bloom into an amazing work of art reminiscent of one of Van Gogh’s paintings....
...Catherine McKenna, Canada’s former environment minister, told COP27 that too many pledges were “little more than empty slogans and hype”....
...And among the specialists who have helped create this booming market is Rob Dickinson, formerly guitarist and singer with rock band Catherine Wheel....
...Lucy Ward, author of a biography of Thomas Dimsdale, the doctor who inoculated both Mai and Catherine the Great of Russia, has campaigned vigorously, collecting signatures for the FT letter last year....
...Green opens the book by describing a chance encounter last August with a sceptic beside a pizza van during a holiday break in Snowdonia....
...Currently seated in the back of his Ford Ranger is the co-founder and creative director of The New Craftsmen, Catherine Lock, and two of the Mayfair gallerist’s makers, the furniture designer Mac Collins...
...Catherine Opie and I are sitting face to face, each framed by the rectangular computer screens that, as with the rest of us, have become our windows on the world....
...Concentrating on the history of female self-portraiture, Jennifer Higgie, a writer and former editor of Frieze magazine, starts with the 16th-century Flemish artist Catharina van Hemessen, who painted the...
...These houses are connected by geography rather than ideology: ask any of the designers about Parisian style and you don’t get visual references – no beret and no Catherine Deneuve....
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