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...Denise Larking Coste Paris, France...
...At a Christie’s sale in Paris late last year, a painted “Etruscan” armchair that once adorned Marie Antoinette’s apartments at Versailles, still retaining its original blue and grey pigment, hammered down...
...This is when you offer up a Te Deum to Marie Kondo, eternally grateful that you decluttered before you started the whole process....
.../ From Denise Larking Coste, Paris, France...
...“I loved ’80s wedding cakes and Marie Antoinette. It has a certain sense of luxury to it,” she says, not pausing in conversation or cake-decorating....
...In Marie Antoinette’s case, only a few close confidantes would have been privy to her escape route....
...She’s in the Marie-Antoinette suite. But in general I prefer comfortable and cosy places over fancy ones....
...Yet prime minister Henri-Marie Dondra denied the presence of Russian mercenaries. “We have not signed a contract with private companies, we have a contract with Russia,” he told the FT....
...(NYT) Jo goes Kondo The FT’s fashion editor Jo Ellison, inspired by the new Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, embarked on a purge of her home....
...Veil’s older sister Denise, who fought in the Resistance, was captured and deported to Ravensbrück. She survived and was awarded the Legion of Honour. Mr Macron paid tribute to Veil’s mother....
...Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez of IMD business school focused part of her research on Japan’s Takanashi family, who are involved in making Kikkoman soy sauce....
...“Most family businesses are not there to grow,” explains Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez, professor of family business at IMD, the Swiss business school....
...And with such writers as James Sallis, John Harvey and Denise Mina on board, this is a cherishable collection....
...… We are All Completely Beside Ourselves , by Karen Joy Fowler, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£7.99/ Plume, RRP£16 Fowler’s moving, funny, Man Booker-shortlisted study of the lingering effect of an experimental...
...The End of the Wasp Season, by Denise Mina, Orion Books, RRP£12.99, 416 pages Denise Mina ensures that her heroine Det Sgt Alex Morrow scores instant memorability on her second outing: pregnant with twins...
...Anna-Marie Solowij is a contributing editor at Vogue Read more product reviews at www.ft.com/annamariesolowij...
...One of the most eagerly anticipated productions, scheduled for next week, will be The Blue Dragon, a new work – co-written with Marie Michaud – by the highly regarded Canadian director Robert Lepage....
...Was Thalberg art’s gift to Hollywood, with his well-bred epics (Romeo and Juliet, Marie Antoinette)? Or was he a mogul playing to the middlebrow?...
...Stuart Fowler, UK fund manager at Axa Investment Managers, says: “New issues got away even in the bear market. If investors think they will make money in a float, they will buy it.”...
...In April, Ann Marie Rogers won a landmark ruling in an appeals court that her local hospital acted unlawfully in refusing to supply her with the treatment....
...Denise Seegal, chief executive of VF Corporation’s Nautica division,describes her as “a very accomplished executive”....
...Stevens Ahsok Bhagani Partner, Bhagani Co, Chartered Accountants Tony Bird Chairman, Bird Group of Companies Peter Botting Director, Butlers 2Business Andrew Bridgen Chairman, AB Produce Simon Brocklebank-Fowler...
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