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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...
...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....
...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 Frank acquisition, which Dimon later described as a “huge mistake”, has been one of the bank’s many quick-fire deals in recent years....
...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....
...Even further west, Against the Edge, a Frieze off-site programme by Jay Ezra Nayssan, puts the work of Nicola L in the former Pacific Palisades home of the exiled German author Thomas Mann....
...Simon Gammon, managing partner at mortgage broker Knight Frank Finance, said: “We are expecting fixed rates to continue to fall back slightly — they are still overpriced because lenders don’t have an appetite...
...That’s B-O-L-A underscore S-O-L. Claer Barrett And Damien? Damien Jordan If you just put Damien Talks Money into Google, or Making Money is the podcast if that’s more your thing....
...Letter in response to this article: JPMorgan’s status today has echoes from the Depression / From Frederick L Feldkamp, Boyne City, MI, US...
...David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C, said many lenders were yet to return to the high loan-to-value market in the wake of the “mini” Budget....
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