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...Lutyens’ Midland Bank was one of the first to go....
...“The last car I bought, just to put things in perspective, was a Mercedes V-Class, to put all the kids and the dog in it.” Our main course gone, Collardi asks if we can see the dessert menu....
...Diallo was keen to include fashion creators in this shoot who may not be based in Africa, but whose heritage gave them an invaluable perspective....
...What is your favourite way to spend a day on Paris’s Right Bank? Tell us in the comments below....
...Jakob Fugger of Augsburg, who financed the election of Charles V to emperor, was in his own day the richest man alive....
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...College of Fashion, V&A East and a UK outpost for the US’s Smithsonian Institution....
..., London’s major new cultural quarter, soon to house outposts of the V&A, UCL, Sadler’s Wells and the BBC....
...Within the large-cap banks, we see a superior risk/reward, and greater absolute upside, for Lloyds (Buy) and HSBC (Buy), while OneSavings Bank (Buy) remains (by far) our preferred play within the wider sector...
...These factors mean that what was supposed to be a V-shaped trajectory in AxJ would look more U-shaped....
...To raise awareness the World Bank issued sustainable development bonds early this year....
...Though Cowen & Co reckons there might be some scope to wiggle out if it chooses: We view LVMH as a patient long-term investor interested in brands with strong heritages....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...This collection opened with a clutch of just those items, all fabricated in heritage fabrics sourced from northern British mills....
...The study room in the V&A’s department of prints and drawings is a calm, high-ceilinged space with banks of wide tables, on which to spread out albums and watercolours and every type of graphic art....
...“We have entered into [memorandums of understanding] with various commercial banks to the tune of around Rs100bn,” said V Rama Manohara Rao, APCRDA special commissioner....
...In the southern city of Bari, enforcing contracts takes on average more than 5½ years, according to the World Bank....
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
...Asked if the smaller museums should regard themselves as underdogs, particularly after last year’s victory for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Mr Deuchar said: “The V&A were amazed to have won....
...A record 3.9m people visited the V&A group museums in 2015-16....
...The rain-stained concrete of the South Bank is now appreciated as a modernist masterpiece, a reminder of an era when architecture was utopian and came with acres of public space....
...Sabanci thought the community would benefit from an institution that explored its diverse heritage....
...Even at the George V hotel’s legendary three-star restaurant, now directed by Christian Le Squer, hostesses are quick to tell you that at lunchtime, you can be in and out in under an hour....
...Yet when I ask Cattelan to muse on his Italian heritage, he deflects me. “I must admit that it’s hard to tell where my origins come out . . . Certainly, when I’m cooking pasta!”...
...Certainly, the glamorous blonde 40-year-old sitting on a cream sofa in her spacious apartment on rue Saint-Dominique on the Left Bank, Paris, embodies the smooth élan of a woman who enjoys the best of everything...
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