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...Rowan bought upscale restaurants in the Hamptons. Harris collected sports teams....
..., Caprice Holdings Jean-Francois CasanovaCEO Dream International B.V....
...Last May, the Bourse reopened, now housing the billionaire François Pinault’s contemporary art collection....
...The reason: a complicated financial structure put in place by its private equity owners left the restaurant group — whose London Seven Dials branch is pictured below — on the wrong side of EU state aid rules...
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
...François Arrighi arrived to open and manage the property, fresh from the George V in Paris (and, before that, Les Airelles, one of Courchevel’s celebrated palaces)....
...Burgundy v the rest — some favourites These are the wines I scored 17 out of 20 in the Berkmann tasting, complete with suggested drinking windows....
...The Michelin guide, Europe’s oldest hotel and restaurant guide, also gave its maximum three-star rating to French chef Christian Le Squer’s Le Cinq at Paris’s George V hotel....
...It also hosted the unforgotten England v Argentina match of the 1998 World Cup....
...Steve Rivkin, a broker at Planet Realty LLC, estimates that East Rock’s older-style brownstones and Tudor- or colonial-style homes (originally built for shipping magnates and factory owners) sell for about...
...Frida Giannini, the creative director of Gucci, and Patrizio di Marco, the chief executive, are in the ornate restaurant of the George V hotel in Paris, posing for a portrait. They look uncomfortable....
...The George V, run by Four Seasons, has regularly been voted among the world’s best hotels....
...France It may have been business as usual in France but the French kept a discreet eye on the pomp and splendour of their neighbour as the wedding was shown live in many Parisian restaurants....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...It’s like revitalising a famous old restaurant....
...“But in New York, your concierge will order taxis, buy plane tickets and book restaurants.”...
...Verizon, the wireless provider, has been broadcasting video clips of goals and key moments from each game to subscribers to its new V-cast service, under a deal with Univision, the broadcaster that holds...
...demands François Delahaye, who oversees both the Plaza Athénée and the Meurice as chief operating officer of the Dorchester hotel group....
...The Bristol, the Crillon, the George V, the Meurice, the Plaza Athenee and the Ritz, all renowned for their historic buildings, squadrons of attentive staff and Michelin-starred restaurants, were found to...
...Greenberg represented C.V. Starr & Co. Role reversal After years of serving as a top consultant to the world’s largest media groups, Michael Wolf is joining one....
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