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...“Head of Julia II”, downward-glancing, is radiant, lovely, self-effacement achieved through inner strength....
...Wander the British Museum for a while and you’ll come across the Franks Casket, a mysterious eighth-century box made from a stranded whale’s bone....
...What A Grade II*-listed, eight-bedroom house reached via a 500-yard-long tree-lined drive....
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer and Frank Lloyd Wright....
...The Bacon, once in the collection of author Roald Dahl, was reportedly sold last week by the hedge funder Pierre Lagrange, also believed to be the seller of Frank Auerbach’s “Head of EOW II” (1964), which...
...Why The Grade II-listed property was once a working farm and its outbuildings have been connected to the main house via construction of a glass ceiling over the yard....
...This might explain why the overall share of bank lending has basically flatlined since 2009 despite the whole Dodd-Frank jamboree....
...What The Grade II-listed property comprises a four-bedroom main house with nearly 3,000 sq ft of internal space and outbuildings including an annexe with its own kitchen, bedroom and bathroom....
...Design Matters Grade II-listed 9 Millbank, minutes from London’s Houses of Parliament, has transformed the former HQ of Imperial Chemical Industries into a collection of grand apartments....
...“I found him to excel in the rational sciences,” reported one Arab ambassador, “and he is distinguished among all the Franks for his talents, his intelligence and his taste for philosophy, logic and medicine...
...Yet prices there — based on a four-bedroom chalet — rose by 8.3 per cent in the year to June 2023, according to Knight Frank....
...In The Virgin in the Garden, a novel set during Britain’s 1953 coronation celebrations for Elizabeth II, the writer AS Byatt introduced readers to two intellectual sisters....
...In 1665, Charles II belatedly made his one-time tutor and valued adviser the first Duke of Newcastle....
...What A Grade II-listed 18th-century barn converted in the 1990s, with four bedrooms and four bathrooms. It is set in 1.7 acres with a quadruple garage, woodland and a tennis court....
...Changes are afoot at Cromwell Place, the Grade II-listed, south-west London gallery hub that opened in 2020....
...The remarkably frank statement by China’s ambassador to France on the status of post-Soviet republics is not an aberration....
...United Energy, an oil and gas company controlled by Chinese tycoon Zhang Hongwei, is set to be the first tenant of Cheung Kong Centre II, said a source briefed on the matter....
...Monday Germany: President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Jordan’s King Abdullah II on a state visit to Berlin South Africa: five-day Africa Energy Week conference begins in Cape Town, where business executives...
...He is stretched out on a bespoke sofa designed by Tyler Hays’ design brand BDDW in the airy sitting room of the Grade II-listed house....
...called Frank Kingdon-Ward....
...These critics lauded Mifid II for forcing bankers and their clients into frank conversations around the value of research. “If you’re a low turnover shop, you don’t have a big commission wallet....
...For decades, the late Queen Elizabeth II attended daily, along with hundreds of thousands of visitors wearing their best clothes and most ridiculous hats....
...The experience in Europe — where Mifid II rules force research to be unbundled from trade execution — suggests that fund managers don’t value sellside research enough to pay much for it....
...to a Jean Prouvé-designed petrol station, Piet Oudolf garden and Zaha Hadid fire station, the gift shop at the Frank Gehry-designed Vitra Design Museum was never going to be an afterthought....
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