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...“I’m blown away by how many people want to include those two elements in the design,” says Orfeo Tagiuri, who playfully inked a couple perched on a wine glass for his first wedding assignment – one of very...
...“I’m aware of clients of mine that currently wouldn’t even look at certain districts because the politics of that area make it too difficult to deliver a project,” says Stuart Baillie, head of planning at...
...I’m 80 and she asked me if I was having sex, to which I replied yes, sometimes....
...I had never thought to change the £2 Ikea orbs that have been hanging in my living room for at least a decade until I read Clara Baldock’s piece about the upgraded versions now available to buy....
...HTSI editorial coordinator Clara Baldock dries out homemade tagliatelle on the cooker’s silver handlebar. But in the face of a cost of living crisis, demand for always-on cookers is falling....
...With no distractions, I’m hoping to get rid of some of the stress we’ve brought with us....
...I prefer Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, which perfectly balances the uniquely English, amoral gothic of the neighbourhood with an undercurrent of joyous camp....
...Clara Diez, co-founder of Formaje cheese shop in Madrid At this time of year, I opt mostly for acid-cured cheeses, which are refreshing and yoghurty....
...Clara Wu Tsai wants to change that. The New York Liberty, the WNBA franchise which Wu Tsai owns with her husband, Alibaba chair Joseph Tsai, is playing in its first championship series since 2002....
...That memory flooded back after MainFT reported last week that Goldman Sachs’s co-heads of M&A and European investment banking were threatening to quit over their exclusion from a powerful committee set up...
...H&M and Zara were the first fast-fashion retailers, selling trend-led clothing at affordable prices....
...Their speciality is a truffle version with scrambled egg, though I’m not much into truffles personally so I usually go for the sautéed peas and Parmigiano cream....
...“I’m looking at humanity and where we got things wrong.”...
...John-Mikaël Flaux is mentoring this year’s final-year class at Lycée Edgar Faure. He argues that the need for the “Swiss-made” label isn’t crucial any more. “I’m French,” he says (he’s from Brittany)....
...I’m Lulu Smyth, in for Lilah Raptopoulos. [MUSIC PLAYING] What I’m about to say might sound absurd, but books are having a cultural moment right now....
...I confess I’m a fairly chaotic packer – the more I can cram into my suitcase, the better – but there are some essentials that will be first in the bag....
...Michael Stott and Clara Nugent look back at a week that still contained some surprises....
...“So I’m actually like a volcano” (for so he’s learnt from his grandmother). Exasperated, they bring out the big guns and accuse him of killing his mother....
...I’m more a football amateur myself and won’t be volunteering to take penalties any time soon, lest I ask the same question....
...On the subject of which… this week’s cover story takes us inside the French horology academy Lycée Edgar Faure, which has produced a clutch of fascinating young independent watchmakers....
...It’s a familiar bit of improv in which I walk around and act as though I’m looking for friends when, really, I’m about to make a run for the toilet because I’m bursting for a pee....
...Margherita Della Valle, who was named as Read’s permanent replacement last month, said: “We know e& well and I’m delighted we have strengthened our existing relationship through this strategic partnership...
...Those of a certain generation will fondly remember how every research report was supposedly just an axe for its traders, every M&A deal was secretly orchestrated by Goldman, every bond sale was making ungodly...
...I’m sure many will look upon its demise and the ungodly amount of fear-mongering on social media and chuckle gleefully about how the technology industry just got a spanking. So be it....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. I stress “at least in Europe”, because elsewhere a certain kind of neutrality remains alive and well....
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