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...Space-age design II Up 1 (1969) Created by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, this vacuum-packed foam chair came flat....
...BUY: [AAPL, GOOGL, AMZN, MSFT, TSLA, FB, NVDA, JNJ, BRK-B, JPM, V, PG, UNH, MA, INTC, ADBE, HD, VZ, DIS, NFLX, PYPL, CRM, XOM, CMCSA, CSCO, PEP, ABBV, ABT, BAC, KO, T, MRK, NKE, NVAX, TMO, WMT, CVX, PFE,...
...“I thought of all the garments that I love,” she says. “Then I thought, how can I tweak this? How can I add my whole upbringing?”...
...The guest list includes Susan B Anthony, Empress Theodora of Byzantium, Sappho, Artemisia Gentileschi, Caroline Herschel (a female astronomer and the first woman to discover a comet) and Elizabeth Blackwell...
...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...Thankfully I had the opportunity to tell Birkin I adored her a few years ago on a big stage somewhere deep in the guts of the V&A museum....
...So money that did go into high yield went into higher quality, including double-B bonds....
...“I’ve got a Queen Anne. I haven’t got George I, but I think I’ve got every monarch after that.”...
...The plaintiff was Cassie, the R&B singer, who alleged that Combs had raped her, beaten her and blown up a romantic rival’s car. Combs denied the allegations....
...But then we get to the i-word. With our emphasis: B....
...“Making money is art and working is art,” wrote Warhol in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & Back Again, a stream of consciousness on the contemporary world....
...B&Q owner Kingfisher — whose total returns lag behind the index by 43 per cent over two decades — is worth roughly the same now as it was as a sprawling retail conglomerate two decades ago....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...to “at least I cannot lose this” to “how did I manage to lose that?!” I still make some nice moves, but they are very poorly distributed!...
...As ever, drop me a note at sid.v@ft.com if you’ve got thoughts and ideas for upcoming Future of Money newsletters....
...Black British Artist Grant, an annual programme giving a leg up to figures within the arts and addressing diversity and visibility across the creative sector. a-cold-wall.com; community.samuel-ross.com B...
...“I think that the government is in a good place to achieve [this year’s divestment] target,” said Priyanka Kishore, head of India and south-east Asia economics at Oxford Economics....
...The French director Agnès Varda, in her 1988 docudrama on Birkin, Jane B par Agnès V, notes this tendency and asks her subject why she doesn’t look at the camera....
...I moved to the US and I was at HSBC, and here I am 16 years later — despite their service level being really poor in the US — still with HSBC....
...Email me at sid.v@ft.com. Reach Imani at imani.moise@ft.com. PS I’ll be interviewing Jonas Templestein, the co-founder of Monzo Bank, at the FT Future of Finance summit on June 16-17....
...V Vaccination Pretty much the only thing that stood between Novak Djokovic and this year’s Australian Open title. Oops....
...“The topmost business families of India do not move without consulting good astrologers,” said Anupam V Kapil, an astrology columnist for the Times of India....
...and MoMA in New York and London’s V&A museum....
...“Even though someone may come through the front door and say, ‘I’ve got a stinking hangover,’ I’ll still go through their medical history, find out all that I can about their medical condition and what medications...
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