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...Another striking space now features Marc Quinn’s “Self” alongside a blood-red wall of haunting death masks....
...One we missed: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation, by Edwin Black....
...Big dresses made of big flowers are, incidentally, big: London designers Richard Quinn and Mary Katrantzou, alongside Valentino and the Comme des Garçons-backed Kei Ninomiya, who designs a label named Noir...
...Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr’s sense for the zeitgeist meant that shoppers got a glimpse of Louis Blériot’s aeroplane days after he crossed the English channel in it in 1909 and John Logie Baird first demonstrated...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photograph: Clay Benskin...
...His father John Sr — the once “indestructible”, fun-loving “Keith Richards of law” in the eyes of his son — died in February at age 81. The loss has left him pensive....
...For anyone wishing to own a more recent slice of cultural history, Marc Quinn’s former Clerkenwell studio — a warehouse since converted into a five-floor townhouse — can be purchased for £3.5m through Frank...
...“As with all litigation involving companies it is a major drain on management time,” says David Greene, lawyer at Edwin Coe. “Areas like disclosure can be very time-consuming.”...
...procedures on one side (tooth extractions, giving birth and more) and a row of vitrines above the bookshelves containing casts of fetishes and votive objects alongside art by contemporary figures including Marc Quinn...
...Sally Quinn, a widow bereft, sat on the other side of the aisle....
...Mr Quinn Sr is due in court later this month for sentencing in the case....
...At that stage, she gave Mr Quinn Sr three months to purge his contempt before considering his fate....
...Peter Darragh Quinn, Sean Quinn Sr’s nephew, an accountant, has fled to Northern Ireland, from where he cannot be extradited on a civil conviction....
...Edwin Poots, the environment minister from the Democratic Unionist party, said the executive would carry out a review of what had gone wrong after every household had been reconnected....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic...
...Mark Quinn’s marble sculpture of Alison Lapper, which graced the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, was made in the marble quarries of Pietrasanta in Tuscany. And so on....
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