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...The real estate arm of the French insurance company has agreed to purchase Bry-sur-Marne Studios, east of Paris, which produced director Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, one of the Hunger Games...
...What they found was part of the 19th-century Inglenook wine estate, and over the years they bought up the adjacent vineyards....
...We like the idea of something that works, but also something that can be improved,” said Axa IM’s global co-head of real estate John O’Driscoll....
...He chose a hill at Le Port-Marly, 15 miles west of Paris, and commissioned Hippolyte Durand to realise the designs. The architect was dubious. “The ground is a clay base,” he said....
...One of the first broadsides against private equity was Steven Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar’s Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows....
...in sheer knickers in Lost in Translation, a Guy Bourdin image that informed a frame in Marie Antoinette....
...The total estimate is “in the region of €12mn” with proceeds headed towards the estate’s restoration....
...Again, this playful approach is a historic one: at Attingham Estate in Shropshire, a circular boudoir is lined with three doors, only two of which allow access....
...They are largely indistinguishable from most of the other houses on the “Gold Coast” of Lake Zürich, some of Europe’s most rarefied real estate....
...A number of these activities are guided by some of Bolton Abbey Estate’s 77 employees; much more than just staff, these characters are cornerstones of life at the hall....
...In Durand Gardens in Stockwell, south London, a two-bedroom flat with use of the private residents’ garden is for sale for £765,000, through estate agency Winkworth....
...Dinner and bottles of wine from the Tollmans’ South African estate are laid out in welcome....
...Not included in the sale is the museum’s most famous watch, made for French queen Marie Antoinette....
...In a parallel pastoral universe, the painter Asher Brown Durand produced some of the most idealised, sublime artworks that exist of the American rural landscape....
...At one point Viv slips her feet into the shoes of a house-buying couple (she is an estate agent) — his are manly brogues; hers are pink satin stilettos....
...Gazing out of the window at Thyme, the luxury hotel that sprawls over 150 acres of impossibly beautiful Cotswolds countryside, I half expected to spy Marie Antoinette with a gilded lead in her hand, taking...
...“They have a knowledge that we don’t have,” says Myriam Durand, head of Moody’s assessments group, a new department that focuses on understanding non-financial risks....
...Marie Antoinette once frolicked....
...It was what the novelist Joyce Cary once called a “tumbril remark”: a Marie Antoinette-ish incitement to revolution....
...Pauline Durand, biophysics researcher at the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge The lab and gardens have a really nice feeling....
...His sons’ public excess was “sort of the Marie Antoinette . . . let them eat cake moment,” said Steven Heydemann, an academic who focuses on Syria....
...Belmond had begun a sale process in August and LVMH saw off competition for the deal from real estate and private equity players....
...Bonhams sold 42 works from the estate, with expectations of up to £2.7m but was rewarded with a strong £4.1m hammer (£4.9m with fees). All the Reddihough lots found buyers....
...of the voting rights; and the family of Antoinette Coury, chair of the SPML supervisory board, has 20.5 per cent of voting rights....
...But the Boundary Estate was built for the “deserving” poor, not simply the local poor, and nearly all of those who had inhabited the squalid streets that the estate replaced were pushed out, never to return...
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