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...Over the centuries it has welcomed some illustrious guests including Richard Wagner and Swiss writer Gottfried Keller....
...And yet the Baur au Lac, still owned by the same family today, played a major role in the life and work of Richard Wagner. A regular guest at the hotel was Wagner’s friend and backer, Franz Liszt....
...to Zürich from FT Globetrotter “It was like stepping into the future, a living exhibition of avant-garde design, a kaleidoscope of Constructivist billboards and modernist fonts,” recalled the designer Richard...
...Richard McVetis, whose subtle installation of 60 handcrafted white cubes, “Variations of a Stitched Cube”, marking in increments of embroidered dots the time of their making, is also on show at the Arnolfini...
...“Maybe some billionaire wants to play movie mogul,” explains Richard Rushfield, editorial director of entertainment industry daily newsletter The Ankler....
...A slice of modernism, completed in 1983, it houses one of Scotland’s finest art collections: some 9,000 artefacts amassed over a lifetime by Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell....
...Richard Vickers, CEO at recruiting firm Search Consultancy, shared his thoughts with us: There is a misconception that all people want from their work is flexibility and a higher salary....
...Richard Ellmann, Joyce’s biographer, records how Joyce told the tale later to a fellow novelist and remarked: “A writer should never write about the extraordinary. That is for the journalist.”...
...In 1990, his son David became managing director and in 2010 his grandson Richard became head of marketing....
Flat-pack retailer set up multi-prong empire to preserve control and lower tax
...Napoleon is reported to have had 30 bottles of Grand Constance dessert wine shipped from Cape Town every month in his final years....
...● Neuberger Berman has hired Richard Gardiner as chief investment officer of its wealth management affiliate Neuberger Berman Trust Company....
...King John is the tale of a nervy, serpentine monarch whom no one likes — though not as good, it is a bit like Richard III if Richard were spineless....
...The only two cabinet casualties — former rural affairs secretary Richard Lochhead and social justice secretary Alex Neil — announced in advance they would step down....
...Incredible as it seems today, President Richard Nixon came very close to implementing a negative income tax (a variant of basic income) across the US in 1970....
...Oscar came to personify the fin de siècle; as his friend, the poet Richard Le Gallienne, explained: “In [Oscar] the period might see its own face in the glass....
Leigh Melrose holds his own in the title role of Berg’s operatic masterpiece which Fabio Luisi conducts
...Richard Cullen, a lawyer with McGuireWoods who is representing Mr Blatter, said the Fifa head was co-operating with the Swiss authorities and “certainly no mismanagement occurred”....
...Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel are the directors of the McKinseyGlobal Institute and co-authors of No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends (PublicAffairs...
...“Based on his understanding of the sport and his experiences, [the agent] had enough reasonable suspicion that he should be looking closer at Blazer,” Richard Weber, chief of the IRS’s criminal investigation...
A supposedly satirical fable was reduced to an exhausting visual display of comic piggery
...Wells Fargo chief’s rise to the top FT West Coast Editor Richard Waters interviews John Stumpf on his journey from a Minnesota dairy and poultry farm to the Wells Fargo executive suite in San Francisco....
...Both defeated candidates in this month’s election for SNP deputy leader won high-profile cabinet roles, with Angela Constance becoming the new education secretary, and Keith Brown taking responsibility for...
...Richard Laxer, president and chief executive of GE Capital International, said Cembra was positioned strongly for the future and GE Capital would continue to have a significant interest in the bank....
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