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...His auction career spans high-profile roles at Sotheby’s and later at Phillips (renamed for a period Phillips de Pury and Company, when de Pury acquired the majority share)....
...A Tiffany & Co onyx, enamel, rock crystal, jade and diamond desk timepiece from the 1920s is expected to fetch SFr60,000-SFr100,000 ($67,000-$111,000), while a 1920s Cartier enamel and gem-set vanity case...
...Farr sold so much bordeaux to China when the market peaked with the 2009 and 2010 vintages that Browett was able to buy a quarter-share in the Premier League football team Crystal Palace, which had dominated...
...Benoît Repellin, worldwide head of jewellery at Phillips, says: “There’s a great fascination with the Roaring Twenties, and jewellers are capitalising on it.”...
...“Demand has just sky-rocketed in the past three to four years, it’s almost absurd,” says Phillip Dunn, spirits director of Wally’s Wine, a Los Angeles luxury spirits retailer....
...Over the past year, John Aristotle Phillips and I have placed a lot of bets....
...These Phillips curve arguments — that economies need a period of sub-par performance to force inflation lower — support the last mile thesis....
...It features a scene where each dancer making up the caterpillar’s body has 100 Swarovski crystals on their pointe shoes....
...The only parts of an RW Smith watch not produced in the Isle of Man workshop are the jewels, the balance and main springs, the crystals and the leather straps....
...Model Brigett English, 51, wears Huishan Zhang silk and spandex cardigan, £1,495, and silk and crystal skirt, £1,695. Jimmy Choo leather Kari 90 shoes, £875....
...Crystal Ung learnt as a child about the “magical, protective powers” of jade....
...Jess Phillips, Labour’s shadow Home Office minister, added to a chorus of criticism of the Met’s handling of the unofficial event....
...In Paris, creative director Hedi Slimane opened his achingly cool Celine spring men’s show with a three-piece pinstripe suit picked out in crystals, evoking all the Savile Row swagger of a young Mick Jagger...
...Charlie Bean: Only if your crystal ball is made of green glass . .....
...One notable lot is a Qing dynasty rock crystal figure of a deer, which once belonged to Coco Chanel....
...She bought her 17th century Italian gold cloissonné and enamel rock crystal pendant at auction in 2015....
...Phillip Searle’s upside-down pear cake I use a 24cm round cake tin, although both Gay Bilson and Phillip Searle recommend a square one, mainly I think for aesthetic reasons....
...Brenda Rainey, a senior practice director at Bain & Company, warned: “Nobody has a crystal ball to know what the world will be like in 15 years....
...“There are so many times we work on transactions where it’s not crystal clear how it will benefit the rest of the world”, says Mr Tanenbaum....
...Spellbound Sky, established by designers Martin Anguiano and Mark Phillips, was one of the first businesses to mix metaphysics with fashion....
...The lines between sculpture and furniture, comfort and impracticality may be increasingly blurred, but — glass or otherwise — the appeal of these pieces is crystal clear....
...The FT asked 81 economists to peer into their crystal balls and answer a variety of questions about the economy this year....
...The case is crystal clear,” said the Indian Health Ministry, according to the Press Trust of India....
...“It’s a style born out of necessity,” explains Lily Atherton-Hanbury, who first met Le Monde Beryl co-founder Katya Tyumentseva while working at Phillips auction house in London....
...hair slide, £910, jenniferbehr.com 13 Larsson and Jennings CM Liten watch, £225, larssonandjennings.com 14 Dolce & Gabbana sequinned pumps, £825, 6-8 Old Bond Street, 020 7659 9000 15 3.1 Phillip Lim...
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