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...The 10 strongest candidates went forward to a second round, where Zemmel beat out other challengers including Carter Wood, chief risk officer, and Liz Hilton Segel, chief client officer....
...But during a recent restoration curators tracked down appropriate antiques — bookcases, desk, a daybed and a wood-fired oven for the kitchen....
...“The US is one market with one currency, one language and one tax system,” said Deborah Fuhr, founder of the ETFGI consultancy, drawing a contrast with the far more fragmented picture in Europe....
...Gathered in a wood-panelled room in Maggiano’s Little Italy, the members of the Rotary Club of Buckhead were optimistic too....
...It’s uncertain how much of his most famous work, Under Milk Wood, was composed here, but one poem thought to be the first written in this atmospheric place is “Over Sir John’s Hill”, the name a reference...
...In the lustrous, entirely blond-wood-clad sitting room is Grieg’s Steinway piano, which is still played in intimate concerts during the Bergen International Festival....
...Zadkine’s beautiful full-length figures, wrought in wood, stone or plaster — such as “Hermaphrodite Torso” (lacquered acacia wood) and “Hermaphrodite” (bronze) — illustrate classical references pushed to...
...Candidates who have advanced to the next round with Sternfels include Carter Wood, chief risk officer, and Rodney Zemmel, global leader of McKinsey Digital, as well as Asutosh Padhi, McKinsey’s North America...
...Wurrungwuri by Carter Williamson Architects; carterwilliamson.com Chip off the blockA monolithic residence in Mexico referencing architect Luis Ramiro Barragán’s modernist masterpieces....
...“Victorian villas in some streets can still be fought over,” says Claire Carter of agent John D Wood. “When things take longer than two weeks to sell [in these areas] it’s a tough market.”...
...“You’ve got a country with massive pent-up household savings and a clear desire to grow its middle class in the long run and build a system that relies more on domestic consumption than exports,” Wood added...
...His opponents in the second round of voting include: Carter Wood, chief risk officer; Rodney Zemmel, global leader of McKinsey Digital; Asutosh Padhi, McKinsey’s North America managing partner; and his predecessor...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Deborah Levy’s memoir The Cost of Living, which I read in two hours....
...I’m now looking forward to the audiobook of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood — a thriller with a climactic twist....
...Quotidian contemporary chopsticks are usually made of wood, bamboo or plastic but traditional versions may be in porcelain, jade or ivory....
...Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (Granta/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) In 2013, Catton was the youngest ever winner of the Booker Prize with The Luminaries....
...Carter’s love of toys is evident before you even enter: parked outside is his 1962 Land Rover and a 1951 wood-panelled Chevy wagon – the type that might have once carried a surfboard atop....
...interior-design superstar in the US with high-profile clients such as Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, fashion designer Fernando Garcia (the co-creative director of Oscar de la Renta) and, most starrily, “the Carters...
...A silver dome echoes the traditional vessel made of a solid piece of wood in a rounded, shallow shape. A gold nugget, still in its raw form, nestled inside....
...By the 1970s, amid the wreckage of the Bretton Woods system, the protectionist current was running strong in the US....
...Prime suburbs include Headingley, Horsforth, Rawdon (especially its Cragg Wood conservation area), where detached houses have sold recently for more than £1mn, according to Simon Wright of Carter Jonas....
...The Toronto-based company was the first Canadian distributor of Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest ETF range, which accounts for six of its ETFs....
...She writes that hexagonal tables were covered with velvet cloths for palmistry and card-reading, as a pack of cards should never be laid on wood....
...She emerged with a bicycle-tyre repair kit that she took into the woods and used to “renovate” a torn mushroom....
...Other stars including football’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, tennis’s Roger Federer and golf’s Tiger Woods have amassed fortunes away from their sports through endorsements and investments....
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