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...Some owners of F- or G-rated homes are simply trying to sell....
...Don Cochrane is great-grandson of Claude Lyons, whose brand Vertex specialised in military watches....
...Founded in 1999, the brand hails from the same era-defining decade as today’s other indie watchmaking stars, such as Richard Mille, Urwerk, De Bethune and MB&F — brands that are synonymous with disruptive...
...It was “a stimulation of the brand’s imagination” and new customers such as Yves Saint Laurent and John F Kennedy soon became clients....
...everyone to get something from my art,” says the 83-year-old Californian artist, whose current show at Hauser & Wirth Zurich showcases his neon wordplay works such as Art Fair Party (2014), with its extra “F”...
...At the NYC branch of the French academy, training is based around a set of principles devised by Jean-Claude Lafargue, former head of Clairefontaine....
...My go-to spot is the pair of oval-shaped galleries purpose-built to hold Claude Monet’s Les Nymphéas murals....
...It was Jean-Claude Van Damme....
...Claude Piening, Sotheby’s head of 19th-century European paintings, says that these account for 75 per cent of its Orientalist art buyers....
...No matter, it was still a savvy business move by Queen Bey to take stock instead of cash, so she deserves kudos for making that bet....
...(The Guardian) Liberal Guy Verhofstadt wants Von der Leyen to channel the spirit of John F Kennedy in Strasbourg this morning....
...Why Built by Antti Lovag and Claude Haüsermann-Costy in 1960, the “bubble house” is classed as a Monument Historique....
...Mr Rutte also got caught saying the f-word....
...“F**k business”, as the former foreign secretary likes to say....
...Their intervention drew a stinging response from Boris Johnson, who was reported to have said: “F*** business”....
...Even F For Fake? They are glittering improvisations, scintillating and untidy, from which we pick out the moments that sparkle like broken glass....
...Separately, Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, reportedly responded to a question about companies’ concerns over Brexit with the words, “f*** business”....
...“If the EU develops its own fighter aircraft, it won’t need any more Lockheed Martin F-35s,” said one senior MP from Germany’s governing CDU party....
...Bethell used his reputation to raise F & C’s profile and acted as a figurehead for the venture, according to Nigel Edward Morecroft’s The Origins of Asset Management from 1700 to 1960....
...And it is still owned by the same family, with André Terrail now in charge instead of his more formal father Claude — although André still bows and kisses my wife on the hand....
...Her tactics can be surprising: she’s not afraid to tell people to “shut the f**k up” and once conducted a session in which she asked a sexually inhibited husband to adopt his sensual alter-ego Jean-Claude...
...I said, ‘Jean-Claude, this is a f***ing Michelin inspector, why has he given me his card?’ He said, ‘I’ve just kicked him out. Well, he didn’t confirm his table, so I gave his table away.’...
...Between the two hang mid-20th century works as enticing yet disorientating as Sōtarō Yasui’s hard deco portrait of a Japanese matron in a striped Chanel suit and jaunty red boater, “Portrait of Madame F”...
...Codenamed BFR (Big F***ing Rocket), the company hopes to have its first launch in 2022....
...In return, the US would help the cash-strapped nation get “back on its feet” with a possible $2.4bn deal to sell Greece some F-16 fighter jets....
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