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...“You’d have to be a brave man to challenge Denis,” said one analyst who is a frequent visitor to Brazzaville. “He’s terrifying.”...
...It’s a place to lose yourself in pattern and print, get a first glimpse of French and international design, and take in the city’s antique troves and markets en route....
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Increasing returns I used to think competition was a stronger economic force than it really is....
...It’s not very gonzo of me, I know, but it is obviously true because if I were making it up, I’d have been at Phnom Penh International, or at least JFK....
...“I’d seen pictures, but nothing does the house justice like walking in,” says Jen Roberts, CEO of Design Miami since 2015....
...What was originally devised to take place in a tent in the Place de la Concorde in 2022 will instead appear in a spectacular 18th-century hôtel particulier just a block south of the Musée d’Orsay....
...Before the incident, Exxon pumped 45,000 barrels a day out of the country; afterwards it dropped to 15,000 b/d....
...At the same time, good design is beautiful, and good designers deserve to be paid a premium for their work....
...If your confidence is at a maximum, lay an opinion on us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Can the good times last?...
...This year, though, the Trust is heading into the urban centre of Manchester to open a property that sits on the doorstep of Aviva Studios, home of Factory International and Manchester International Festival...
...There’s more attention-grabbing work inside the house: to the right of the main entrance hangs Robert Rauschenberg’s “Forge”, a two-metre-high Combine piece, uniting metal, paper, a sock and a necktie, while...
...The state-run oil producer said the energy ministry had ordered the move which would have increased its daily output from 12mn barrels a day to 13mn b/d by 2027....
...This includes a new design section of seven studios, such as Mumbai’s Atelier Ashiesh Shah and the specialist wallpaper and fabrics company de Gournay....
...There’s a lot of companies in the double-B category that were downgrades from triple-B. They’re better companies. It’s a different high-yield than, say, 10 years ago ....
...It’s a way to mitigate risk, such as geopolitical tensions. You know, the US keeps putting more export controls on Chinese companies. So companies really need to have a plan B, have a back up....
...In a simple shape it conveys a C, a B, an & [ampersand symbol], and suggests everything is tied together....
...by Sylvia de Gay for Robert Sloan of New York, made in a textile design called Bright Butterflies....
...“Being a first mover puts you in a position to design the market to some extent,” he says....
...It was usually with London’s heritage tailors who were trying to mimic international luxury brands on a catwalk....
...Which photograph do you wish you’d taken?That photo from New Year’s Eve on a street in Manchester that looks like a renaissance painting. Is self-invention a bad thing?Bad self-invention is bad....
...The best-known name on the schedule was probably Thom Browne, purveyor of grey shorts suits and four-stripe socks to celebrities including Cardi B and Kristen Stewart....
...How fantastic for International Women’s Day that we have a big deal done by somebody who happens to be a woman running a bank on our front page, because I think that’s what we need....
...“I’d be lost without it,” he says....
...Out of desperation, they turned to young talent inspired by European cinema and weird B-movies — including Robert Evans, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and the rest of the American New Wave....
...And that sort of lasted up until the mid 2000s, I’d say. And then you start to hit trouble again....
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