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...Wednesday is a reminder of more optimistic times with the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Wall opening for the first time to West Berliners....
...With walls crammed with works that are also available to buy, this is another fixture in the summer social diary....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...This is the week a subreddit took on Wall Street and won . . . at least for now....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Aboard Félix Roussel (1931), a ship that served the Indochina line, walls were decorated with Khmer bas-reliefs, images of the Hindu nymph Apsara were sculpted into pilasters, and the scaly back of the seven-headed...
...Some had even migrated to the walls: YESTERDAY’S GOOD IDEA hung behind a ladder....
...It’s even said that Charles V came through on his way from Flanders to take up the Spanish throne....
...When Dame Carol Robinson has a daunting task ahead she longs to be a gardener....
...To give the show some extra grounding in real life, there are cameos from well-known personalities: Clare Balding, Carol Vorderman. There are rumours that Hall himself will appear in a future episode....
...Related links: Come with me if you want to trade - FT Alphaville Michael Lewis’s flawed new book – Felix Salmon Michael Lewis’s HFT Book: More of a Dark Market Than a Lit One – Streetwise Professor...
...- Felix Salmon on DeMarco v Geithner - Finance must escape the shadows. - ECB Q&A: will we see a big bazooka or pea-shooter on Thursday? - Fed in the dark on jobs....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Only one of the prospectuses (V) mentions Morgan Stanley, and that’s as a counterparty to a currency swap....
...On the outside walls I added panels of cobbles, flint, ironstone and Bargate stone. Have you sacrificed the garden to the museum?...
...Or if you’re Felix Salmon and Paul Kedrosky – two of the more opinionated of the financial bloggers – engage in a blog-based version of a debate club....
...But “he was not aware that his design continued to be produced in East Germany after Elastogran was sold,” says Felix Ghyczy, the designer’s son, who reissued the design in Holland in 2001 as part of the...
...The walls are lined with elaborate displays such as “Cradle to Grave” showing jewellery in relation to the themes of life such as love, faith and death....
...Jeremy Treglown is professor of English literature at Warwick university and author of ‘V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life’ (Pimlico)...
...The account of Felix Rohatyn’s jealous clash with Steve Rattner, conducted through various magazines?...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
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