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...“Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker were among our first neighbours,” he says....
...Sarah Jessica Parker has a museum-worthy collection of his designs....
...George Parker. . . that many people have never heard of....
...Participants include Christie’s, Sotheby’s, The Met and Brooklyn Museum....
...After learning of a link to the Merrymounts via a distant relative, Nell spots the work for sale in a Christie’s catalogue....
...Who Strutt & Parker House, Amsterdam, €6mn Where On Vondelstraat in the south of the Oud-West neighbourhood....
...Although Freud’s 2003 portrait of Parker Bowles is not on show here, the catalogue includes a transcript of a recent conversation between Parker Bowles, Ordovas and Freud’s longtime assistant and photographer...
...The eclectic mix includes pillar candles by Yinka Ilori, glass fruit pipes by Edie Parker, Japanese shibori kits and statement jewellery crafted by Johnny Nelson....
...Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (Faber, 8 hrs/41 mins) is read by actor Jamie Parker, who has an impressive track record in audio recording....
...Bunny Christie’s canny design conjures the bustle of NYC with the lightest of touches: a fire hydrant here, a steaming manhole there....
...Works by Cornelia Parker, Anselm Kiefer and Michael Joo are among the 16 estimated to make up to £135,700 at Phillips, London on March 4....
...“I always think of The Warburg Institute as a perfect, quiet place to absorb culture,” says Parker....
...what was imagined to be Parker’s preference for plumped-up wine....
...Writer Dorothy Parker quipped that the Bloomsbury set “lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles”....
...Who Christie’s International Real Estate The Old Sawmills, Cornwall, UK, £2.2m Where On its own tidal creek on the banks of the River Fowey....
...This month, the work of the late designer is being celebrated with an online auction at Christie’s London....
...To help rebuild the city’s cultural landscape, Christie’s has launched a charity sale....
...“I designed the pieces with the guidance of Karen Au Yeung, senior vice president and senior international specialist at Christie’s in Hong Kong,” says Parker....
...Gill Rider, a senior independent director, will succeed John Parker as chairman....
..., auction sales of Modern British art fell from $74.2m to $46.9m at Christie’s and from $53m to $33m at Sotheby’s....
...Who Strutt & Parker, tel +44 20 7318 5095 Frontenac Street, Seattle, US, $7.85m Where In the south of Seattle in Washington state....
...Deacon also dresses his partner, the actress Gwendoline Christie, in custom couture....
...If so, it is advisable to agree a rent rather than a cut of earnings, says Parker. “After all, how do you know what the earnings are?...
...Additional reporting by George Parker...
...Who Christie’s International Real Estate, tel +212 524 42 22 29 Château, Laruns, Pyrénées Atlantiques, France, €599,000 Where In the Vallee d’Ossau, in the Pyrénées....
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