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...Meanwhile, the LVMH Métiers d’Excellence Institute was founded in 2014 as a vocational training program with a work-study format....
...here ‘A Show of Affection: Collection Constellation 1’, Fotomuseum Winterthur To mark its 30th anniversary, Fotomuseum Winterthur draws on work from its archives by 19 photographers/artists, among them Cindy...
...pendant watch, from the Jeux d’Or collection, POA, somlo.com....
...While Humphries does not reveal the source of those impulses (“You’d have to ask my therapist”), they have been brewing for some time....
...We began to drift into the next lane, and a blast came from a lorry’s horn. “Oh,” said Akrach. He recognised the number. “It’s the police.”...
...Chaumet rose-gold, diamond, pink morganite and sapphire Galets d’Or bracelet and rose- and white-gold, diamond, pink morganite and sapphire Galets d’Or ring....
...Château d’Yquem is always a good idea at the end of the night....
...“At the time I’d made a few pennies, and I thought, art’s good — let’s stick some things on the wall,” Williams says....
...The catchy melodies of Bongo Flava — a blend of Afrobeat, Swahili, English slang and American hip-hop — roll out of a radio, mixed with police sirens and the hollow sound of a train’s horn....
...Then came the “ice-cream wars” of the 1980s, when family relations broke down between brothers Peter and Aldo, and the ice-cream van became briefly equated with gangsterism on the streets of Glasgow....
...It is a great time of year for van hirers, too. The green of the vines on the Côte d’Or is punctuated by white vans and people-carriers....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Van Gogh. Being a great creator takes courage, and while most would say that Van Gogh’s depression made him crazy, for me, he was so brave....
...Consider the two butterfly brooches from 2007 designed by Japanese lacquer artist Junichi Hakose for Van Cleef & Arpels, she says....
...Elsewhere the female trio Las D’Aida harmonise righteously; Los 5-U-4 deliver a concise psychedelic nugget, and the driving horns and low croon of Eduardo Ramos’s “Vocación Revolución” fire up agitprop....
...Wood pops on to my laptop screen, instantly recognisable by her trademark horn-rimmed glasses and poker straight hair....
...By the time I got to “Van Gogh’s Chair”, part of me started to miss the tourists. After all, people-watching at a gallery is first rate....
...Amsterdam, in van Tongeren’s name....
...State investment bank Bpifrance has a roughly €2bn fund called the “lac d’argent” — the “silver lake” — which can be deployed to help such targets....
...(Think of Rip Van Winkle set in the WTO: we’re seeing Tim Burton directing and maybe Johnny Depp as the lead.)...
...Singers Aude Extrémo and Christian Van Horn bring multitasking to a new level, playing hard while singing gloriously....
...At Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, until May 26....
...He’d looked to the heritage of feathers in Parisian craft, particularly the expertise of feather and flower embroideries maker Lemarié....
...With this tantalising prospect of finding new collectors who drop millions on objets d’art, it is little wonder more jewellers are showing their work at art fairs, from big brands such as Van Cleef & Arpels...
...Grazing on grass sprouting in the summer rain are a herd of yak, each the size of a van, with an emperor’s fly-whisk of a tail at one end and perfectly set horns at the other....
...I was living the dream, among Van Dycks and Meissen porcelain. I didn’t move for the first day....
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