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...Many of the pieces come with illustrious provenance (Savonnerie rugs designed for the Louvre; a sewing table made for Marie Antoinette; silver service commissioned by Catherine II of Russia), all of it arrayed...
...As well as making his own art, he is creative director of Laguna~B – the Murano-made homewares brand founded by his mother, Marie, who died in 2013. “Murano is looking to find a new identity,” he says....
...The new CEO learned his craft at the French house Houbigant (makers of scents so distinctive they reportedly gave Marie Antoinette away as she fled the sans-culottes in disguise) and is the founder of his...
...Marie, 63, carries two surgical masks stapled together — one of only a handful of masks visible anywhere at the fair....
...Near the end of my stay, I meet Lydia Marie Hicks. She found refuge here at the height of the pandemic....
...In 1982, the Accademia Italiana della Cucina, the organisation dedicated to protecting Italian cuisine, codified the ingredients required for a traditional ragù....
...The one-room shop on the Via della Penna is overseen by a dynamic staff who’ll happily spend half an hour or more parsing top notes with you....
...They had barely begun to sip champagne and marvel at the rococo decoration where Marie-Antoinette once lived when word reached them of a fire at Notre-Dame cathedral....
...Further afield, the collectors Marie Brenner, a writer and journalist, and her husband, the financier Ernest Pomerantz, have upped their promised donation of a collection of photographs to the San Antonio...
...Lisbon’s Calouste Gulbenkian Museum lends the unexpected, scale-defying “The Church of Santa Maria della Salute”, the massive bulk of the cathedral daringly obscured and overwhelmed by a rhythmic design...
...His wife, Marie-Rose Kahane, is also part of the Murano community (she runs her own glass design company Yali, producing glassware hand blown by local maestri)....
...The people I rely on for personal grooming are my colourists, Marie and Kimberly, at the Marie Robinson Salon in New York....
...In Venice itself, inquiries increased 20 per cent in 2015, according to Ann-Marie Doyle at Sotheby's Realty, who recently sold three properties on the Grand Canal....
...Exor controls carmaker Fiat, which is the largest shareholder in RCS Mediagroup, publisher of Corriere della Sera and the owner of another Italian newspaper, La Stampa....
...At Insead, which has campuses in France, Abu Dhabi and Singapore, the drop has been just as great, according to Marie Courtois, head of career development for Insead’s executive degrees....
...example, which announced at the beginning of November that it was building an extensive new campus in Singapore, has recently begun investigating the possibility of a third campus in Mauritius, says Jean-Marie...
...The result, Il Talismano della Felicità, emerged in 1929 and immediately became the equivalent of Tante Marie in France and, er, Mrs Beeton in England....
...A semi-converted former convent, Villa Marie Joseph, is one of the most expensive villas currently on the market in the region....
...According to Marie Mookini, who manages Stanford’s Sloan programme, “the combination of the university and the valley can’t be beat” But perhaps the most significant difference is the target student group...
...“I go to Monoprix regularly when I’m in Paris,” says Marie Moatti, of perfume company By Kilian....
...Davis, wincing slightly at the pepper grinder, which is squeaking, tells me about one story called “Marie Curie, So Honorable Woman”, which came about as Davis was translating a biography of Marie Curie...
...Harcourt,Emeritus Reader, University of Cambridge, and Professor Emeritus, University of Adelaide, Australia Peter Hammond,Marie Curie Professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK Mark...
...By contrast, Sickert’s pen and purple ink drawing of Marie Pepin, his Dieppe maid, in “The mirrored wardrobe”, is a study in detachment: Sickert described a “little lower-middle-class woman in the stays...
...The two schools have appointed Marie-Christine Bert, director of company specific programmes at Parisian rival ESCP-EAP, to manage the new campus....
...The BNP confirmed this move, and said it was also exploring tie-ups with Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Front Nationale in France, Austria’s Freedom Party and Vlaams Belang of Flanders....
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