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...One to reach for on a night out. £90 for 100ml, doverstreetmarket.com Buly 1803 Eau Triple Sumi Hinoki Favoured by celebrated fire chef Francis Mallmann, this perfume is inspired by the smell of Kyoto’...
...Before now, writing a biography of Francis Ford Coppola has been like aiming at a moving target. Where would this unique American film achiever go next? Was he (this year) a billionaire or a bankrupt?...
...Dealer Nick Maclean says that bidding at Christie’s on Francis Bacon’s “Landscape near Malabata, Tangier” (1963) — which went to adviser Francis Outred for a within-estimate £16.8mn (£19.6mn with fees) —...
...As well as including a handful of old favourites, she makes a welcome dip into some of the lesser lights of operetta, such as composers Paul Abraham, Henri Christiné and Francis Lopez....
...These market conditions call to mind a previous episode of private capital funding societal technological overhaul, as fuelled by a historic allocation from a Gulf kingdom: SoftBank Vision Funds I and II...
...Pope Francis, an Argentine Jesuit, soon established a reputation as a comparative liberal. If Benedict lived by the letter of Church law, Francis lives by its spirit....
..., while adults can partake in a tablescaping class at the workshop (13 December; £38) at this English garden destination, which is set in 383 acres of grade II*-listed parkland....
...Macron ably channelled that sense when he recorded a moving message addressed to Britons after Queen Elizabeth II’s death last year....
...John McGreevy, author of the book Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, called Benedict’s abdication a “healthy step” away from the Church’s traditional “renaissance prince...
...Having spurned suitors including Philip II of Spain and Francis, Duke of Alençon, heir to the French throne, for many years, Elizabeth’s favourite was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester — who was already married...
...The contest is all the sharper because Pope Francis turns 86 next month....
...The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 was a “complete game changer” for jeweller Deakin & Francis: its commemorative silver jam spoons, butter knives and teaspoons flew off the shelves....
...In a story bound up with the city, real settings from the Duomo to the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II each had their moment on screen....
...Chief among them was the ultra-conservative archbishop of LA Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, who resented the IHM sisters’ liberal approach....
...But Francis praised his predecessor, describing him as akin to having a grandfather on the premises. Several days ago, Francis called for special prayers for the ailing pope emeritus....
...And while an Elizabethan Room (so named partly “because Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip slept there on their honeymoon tour”) and a yellow “Coronet Room” feature rare breakaways of colour, the tones...
...Its former chief executive, Francis deSouza, quit the company last month after a bruising proxy battle against activist investor Carl Icahn, who criticised the deal as a “reckless decision”....
...away, closer to Francis Bacon’s dark visions than Marcel Duchamp’s jests....
...But I’m most excited about Nakhla, the standalone boutique of the eponymous jewellery brand, situated at the feet of the iconic statue of Rameses II....
...Benedict took the title of Pope emeritus and became a symbol of resistance for conservative Catholics to certain initiatives of Francis, such as a decision to reimpose restrictions on celebrating the old...
...US, Nasa and the Canadian Space Agency name the four astronauts who will orbit the Moon on the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System and Orion Spacecraft ahead of a...
...With its sprays and spillages of teal, indigo and daffodil pigment on a pale ground, the enormous “Tokyo” (1957) by Californian Sam Francis — who spent much of the 1950s in Paris — feels like a deconstructed...
...Now his alma mater auction house has Piet Mondrian’s “Composition No II” (1930) — a prime grid dominated by the colour red — as its star lot in New York on November 14....
...In dispensing with the conventions of period drama, The Serpent Queen joins The Great, a comedy of manners based on Russia’s Catherine II, and The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos’s riotous portrait of Queen...
...This material is being celebrated at Francis Gallery, which opened in a Grade II-listed town house in the city in 2019....
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