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...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...The cast — from PR mogul Edward L Bernays to dictator Carlos Castillo Armas — are mostly historical but in Vargas Llosa’s expert hands, they are alive and kicking....
...With its intricate etching of animals and bronze detail, it is the work of Austrian/German painter-cum-designer Ludwig Jungnickel and was produced for the venerable Bohemian glass company J & L Lobmeyr....
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letters in response to this article: Colvin’s achievements need no embellishment / From Ronan L Tynan, Director, ‘Syria — The Impossible...
...He recalls how last summer, on behalf of the museum, he tried to buy a short-sleeved Balenciaga evening gown embroidered with pale-pink feathers once owned by midcentury socialite Francine Weisweiller....
...Her promotion to the top job at GSK will bring the number of female chief executives in the FTSE 100 to seven, joining Alison Cooper at Imperial Brands, Moya Greene at Royal Mail, Carolyn McCall at EasyJet...
...All best, L. Predictive power of film PS Santa, Henry Gatewood, banker in the 1939 film classic Stagecoach, wished the US president was a businessman....
...L’Art et l’enfant, the Musée Marmottan’s superb and original exhibition, tells through scores of masterworks both familiar and rare how a century of refined French painters unpacked that call to regression...
...Gaston Richard’s impression of Sarkozy’s verbal tics is uncanny, and Francine Bergé, by turns whimsical and frail, is a powerful presence as Bettencourt....
...In November 2014 L&G’s Mr Wilson said that the euro had been a “disastrous straitjacket”, and that there was little evidence that the single market had benefited UK business....
...A gruff ticket seller at L’As du Fallafel, where long queues normally form outside, said business was down at least 30 per cent since last week....
...Have some mint tea and a corne de gazelle by the fountain, after a walk in the Jardin des Plantes nearby. 2bis Place du Puits de l’Ermite, 5th arr Le P’tit Fernand This restaurant is an institution and...
...This library’s four glazed, L-shaped towers rapidly roasted the valuable books and papers housed in them and proved barely usable until modified with an expensive shutter system....
...enthusiasts – Gokhale and Dalrymple with Roy at Jaipur, while the Arts Summit emerged from an idea by Neha Kirpal, a young marketing and conference organiser and is backed by Sunil Gautam who runs Hanmer MS&L...
...New and established names include Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Anthony McCall, Hans op de Beeck, Isak Berbic and Felice Varini....
...It is no surprise that the most successful pieces are the least letter-like - A.L....
...People who buy L’Oreal buy a little bit of Paris, and with Maybelline [L’Oreal’s US cosmetic brand], you are buying the New York spirit.”...
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