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...This was inspired by the performances of the experimental theatre group Taiwan Walker. “It’s all from my memories,” he says....
...In the restaurant is Justin Cogley, who won Best New Chef laurels from Food & Wine, American’s culinary bible, for his delicious work at Aubergine, the restaurant in Fink’s other hotel, L’Auberge Carmel....
...In the Fourth of July scene, the arrangement of young bodies on the riverbank soon gels into a mash-up of Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and Seurat’s “Île de la Grande Jatte”....
...With that, the Parisian macaron was born, and Desfontaines – cousin of Louis Ernest Ladurée – turned his family bakery into a culinary institution....
...Jim Bulling, Melbourne-based financial services partner at law firm K&L Gates, said there have been “in excess of 20 announcements” from ASIC over the past six weeks addressing enforcement actions on financial...
...Among his highlights for next week are Design Miami, which opens its first edition in the French capital (October 18-22, L’hôtel de Maisons)....
...For years he fought to stabilise his relationship with this complicated, wealthy Catholic, the wife of Ernest Hoschedé — his chief collector — a spendthrift bankrupted because he had bought too many Monets...
...This sordid affair closed a chapter on Monday, the FT’s Joseph Cotterill and Owen Walker report, after UBS settled with Mozambique....
...(The FT’s Owen Walker live tweeted the event.) CS’s shares were once nearly SFr80 each, Daniel Engler, one shareholder noted. “The price of a chateaubriand.”...
...Things I enjoyed this week Laura Noonan and Owen Walker wrote an engaging FT Magazine piece on UBS chair Colm Kelleher....
...The Fontaine de l’Observatoire sits astride the 0° meridian from which the world is measured. Except it’s not. That too was a French dream....
...Paul Jacobs, a co-owner of the 1902-founded Ernest Wright, is currently restoring the business from the inside out....
...Additional reporting by Tom Wilson, Owen Walker and Peter Campbell...
...Everywhere Grant’s style is visible — simplified forms, flat planes, bold colours — whether in two statuesque naked women holding a trompe l’oeil mirror above the fireplace or an acrobat on a door panel...
...For me it was an arson attack at Gare de l’Est. No one was injured, but the fire destroyed about 50 cables, disrupting services....
...Where to go next: The hallowed La Rotonde, whose habitués once included Picasso and Ernest Hemingway, is a two-minute walk away....
...To this day, if I’m planning a proper toastie binge, I’ll knock up a small soupe à l’oignon as an accompaniment....
...Luke Walker, the designer and founder of fashion label LEJ, says he grew a moustache as soon as he could, although he can’t recall what prompted it....
...Meanwhile, Lasry’s compositions lure the listener with tantalising rhythms and an ingenious synthesis of musical styles infused with ’70s pop, memories of cinematic scores and echoes of Scott Walker....
...“We are busy all the time,” says manager Nathan Walker-Unwin. “The demand for this kind of place is amazing.”...
...Enel seeks to slash debt with €21bn asset sale (FT) Exonerated trader sues Deutsche Bank over Libor rigging allegations (FT) Tiger Global’s now-worthless FTX bet had Bain’s due diligence (Bloomberg) L&...
...For walkers like me, it is irresistible. Hardly anyone I know has ever visited....
...We even met a “bank walker”, Adam, one of an endangered breed employed to patrol the banks looking for weak spots. In winter the canal is drained for maintenance....
...It was also a regular haunt of Ernest Hemingway and featured in Pedro Almodóvar’s 1991 film Tacones Lejanos (High Heels)....
...Next week marks the opening of 52 Walker, a Tribeca gallery owned by David Zwirner, but operating in a different way to the norm....
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