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The prestigious design fair makes its French debut in Karl Lagerfeld’s former house
...Guayasamín was a life-long leftist who, like another friend in the photos, Gabriel García Márquez, stayed loyal to Castro and his ideals until the end....
...Frieze has “attracted a lot of galleries . . . but I wonder what it does really for artists who live here”, says César García-Alvarez, executive and artistic director of the Mistake Room gallery....
Sophie Carbonari’s ‘cosmic lifting’ techniques have given rise to a new beauty line
...“Dialogue doesn’t make sense with the dictatorship because it’s holding participants from the first dialogue in prison,” said Father Edwin Román, a Nicaraguan priest exiled in Miami....
...The closest was the arrival of the NoMad hotel in 2012, impeccably designed by French Empire stylist Jacques Garcia, complemented by an excellent restaurant run by Daniel Humm....
...There were further wobbles when it was discovered that she would be arriving with Óscar Garcia Maceiras, a new and largely unknown CEO....
...“I think that’s sort of what you’re seeing happening around ‘Latinx’,” says García-Alvarez....
...Rodrigo Garcia Alvarez, founder of paraffin-free candle label Amen, speaks similarly about his customers. “Everyone was telling me, use styrofoam,” he recalls....
...Verónica López Álvarez sinks a long, T-shaped rod into the soft earth, pulls it out, smells it and screws up her face....
...“The cemetery here in Pucallpa [ in Ucayali] is overwhelmed,” said Jorge Antonio Alvarez, country director of Living Water International, an NGO....
...Or take a peek at the pair of houses built by Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa (Ensamble Studio) for themselves....
...The ground floor is completed by a more conventional gallery space (the Garcia Family Foundation Gallery) with big windows and chunky I-beams painted a surprising gold....
...The 144 bedrooms have been redesigned by Jacques Garcia and after a round, guests can unwind in the lavish spa that opened this year....
...Elsewhere on Friday, — A history of prizefighting’s biggest money fights (John S Nash): While Mayweather’s bouts with Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez set records, it was his match with Manny Pacquiao...
...In his final years, he was frequently left on the substitutes’ bench by coaches Rudi Garcia and Luciano Spalletti, which caused tensions between the club and the fans....
...Mr Álvarez said that the bank was still on target to surpass an 11 per cent CET1 ratio in 2018....
...“We had relatively good macroeconomic developments in the UK, US, Spain and Poland,” said José Antonio Álvarez, chief executive....
...And in José García Cantera, Ms Botín has appointed a new CFO with plenty of external experience – he was CFO of Banesto before it was integrated with Santander in 2013....
...Most eye-catching of all, however, is the Casa del Lector (House of the Reader) designed by Antón García Abril....
...Federico Garcia Lorca wrote: “There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them.”...
...Augusto Álvarez Rodrich, a prominent Peruvian political commentator, branded the appointments “a severe institutional setback and a deepening of the crisis of legitimacy” within Peru’s legal system....
...So far Obrist has curated similar shows – “a homage to the building and to the creator” – in Sir John Soane’s house in London, architect Luis Barragán’s house in Mexico and Federico García Lorca’s in Spain...
...Edwin Heathcote ——————————————- CLASSICAL Piano Man: A Life of John Ogdon, by Charles Beauclerk, Simon & Schuster, RRP£20/$29.99 Ogdon was one of the most gifted pianists of modern times but, after scaling...
...Reinaldo Garcia, chief executive for Latin America for GE, and Luis Alvarez, head of Latin America for BT, voice their concerns to the FT's Joseph Leahy...
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