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...public photograph from an IIEB event, Italian president Sergio Mattarella can be seen at Rome’s opulent Quirinal Palace in 2015 addressing a room of bank CEOs including Sergio Ermotti of UBS and former Lloyds...
...Great Dixter in Sussex is run on a grander scale, carrying forward the ideas and plantings of its former occupant, the famous Christopher Lloyd....
...You could see people, I remember Charles Walker, the veteran Tory MP, kind of saying Boris has turned it around. He’s now got this much more important thing....
..., France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith Hadley, USA Polymath 1,014: Peter Boyd, Wiltshire Crossword 16,117: Mary Aclandhood, London; Rev T K Hole, Sheffield; Robert Smith, Norfolk Polymath 1,013: Bob Walker...
...Thomas Keller’s French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley took aim at its insurer for an alleged failure to cover coronavirus-related business losses....
...Fidelity staff will have a rooftop garden and enviable views of Christopher Wren’s St Paul’s Cathedral....
...Meadows: At Great Dixter and Beyond, by Christopher Lloyd and Fergus Garrett, Pimpernel Press, RRP£30 A guide to one of the most relaxed-looking garden styles — which is, annoyingly, one of the hardest...
...… Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels, by Christopher Lloyd, Thames & Hudson, RRP£24.95/ J Paul Getty Museum, RRP$39.95 “Drawing has come back again!” announced Gauguin on seeing Degas’s sketches....
...The Hollywood connections go back to the silent era, when stars such as Gloria Swanson, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin shot movies at the hotel....
.../ From Mr Richard Walker...
...Christopher Fowler …………………………………………………………….....
...‘In Search of a Masterpiece’ by Christopher Lloyd is published by Thames & Hudson on May 16...
...John Lloyd, radio and TV producer. Christopher MacLehose, publisher. Wayne McGregor, choreographer. Steve McQueen, for services to the visual arts....
...Eleanor Laing, Andrew Turner, Christopher Chope, Simon Hart and Nick Boles. Stephen Williams....
...Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket journalist. Sam Judah, managing director, GBA Group of Companies. Anthony Kappes, Paralympic cyclist. Jason Kenny, Olympic cyclist....
...Children Compiled by Neville Hawcock The Dunderheads By Paul Fleischman and David Roberts Walker, £11.99 Miss Breakbone is the teacher from hell....
...God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything By Christopher Hitchens Atlantic £17.99, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 Christopher Hitchens has made so many enemies of former friends and so many...
...gallerist 3 (13) Francois Pinault - owner of Christie’s /collector 4 (3) Nicholas Serota - museum director 5 (2) Glenn D Lowry - museum director 6 (22) Eli Broad - collector/philanthropist 7 (5) Sam Keller...
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