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...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...As I start exploring, relishing the 25C heat and gentle waves of the reef-protected sea, I have as my guide The Island of Rodriguez published by John Murray in 1923....
...Cece Jewellery gold, diamond, ruby, sapphire and champlevé enamel Lovers’ Pendulum necklace, £43,860 Frank Foster vintage French voile bespoke shirt, from £300....
...The plaster panelling in the salon, for example, is a trompe-l’oeil parchment, hand-patinated by a young Belgian artisan, Mathilde Van der Schueren....
...In front of Les Invalides there is a café with a big terrace called Café de l’Esplanade, with the same owners as Hôtel Costes....
...In the restaurant is Justin Cogley, who won Best New Chef laurels from Food & Wine, American’s culinary bible, for his delicious work at Aubergine, the restaurant in Fink’s other hotel, L’Auberge Carmel....
...June 15; further information and tickets here ‘Nijinski’, Opernhaus Zurich With Debussy’s “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune” and Chopin’s two piano concertos providing the musical framework, Marco Goecke...
...In 2022, McKillen was awarded L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for his contribution to the country’s culture....
...Curiosities include Afuega’l Pitu, whose chalky texture and piquant taste you either love or loathe, and the strange Casín, a tiny, rock-hard, powerfully flavoured cheese rescued from imminent extinction...
...Rothko Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (to April 2) Paris’s second trump card is its lavish private museums, led by Bernard Arnault’s Fondation Louis Vuitton in Frank Gehry’s irresistible cloudscape building...
...British Columbia’s most popular radio station being broadcast from its penthouse studio, and for its role as the local industry’s de facto locale for hosting visiting musicians, including the likes of Frank...
...L’Oréal is betting it can double Aesop’s annual sales from €502mn to €1bn or more. The deal is a departure for L’Oréal in one respect....
...Robert Frank got there first, treating it as a poetic motif and surrounding it with language, irony and critique. Seeing Frank’s photos, Ruscha wrote, “was like opening a book laced with dynamite”....
...With colleagues Jean-Jacques Orzoni and Jean-Marc Roques, Labro started creating buildings that drew on the ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar Aalto, but looked like nothing else....
...trading update, American Airlines Q3, AT&T Q3, Blackstone Q3, CSX Q3, Deliveroo Q3 trading update, Dunelm Q1 trading update, Equifax Q3, Hargreaves Lansdown Q1, London Stock Exchange Group trading update, L’...
...A cultural component was always planned, first in the form of a tottering stack of blocks designed by Frank Gehry (a project abandoned in 2014) and now, finally, a generation after 9/11, realised in the...
...The exhibition doesn’t present Maria as a uniquely terrible event; it’s frank about the economic and political fractures that preceded and exacerbated the devastation....
...The Frank acquisition, which Dimon later described as a “huge mistake”, has been one of the bank’s many quick-fire deals in recent years....
...Her father Jack worked for Frank Hogan, who reigned as Manhattan district attorney for 32 years and is the namesake for the office’s current address, One Hogan Place....
...The UK yesterday launched a review of the market, while the White House has called in tech leaders for a “frank discussion” of AI risks....
...It’s another sign of the eye-watering prices buyers are willing to pay for top-shelf beauty brands, after L’Oréal shelled out $2.5bn for minimalist soap maker Aesop in April....
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...Plus, a classic Provençal mas in towns and villages like Ménerbes, St-Rémy, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Gordes (where Knight Frank is selling a seven-bedroom house for €2.35mn) and, of course, Cézanne’s native...
...These shows inspired a cult for Soutine in the small avant-garde circle of artists — Leon Kossoff, his close friend Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon — loosely associated as the School of London...
...I also love my black Louis Vuitton roller [case] with grey accents and my double-L monogram on the side....
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