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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...
...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....
...Chaumet gold and diamond L’Épi de Blé de Chaumet ring, £10,200. Saskia Diez sterling-silver Long Star earring, €105 for a pair Paul Smith silk shirt, £425, and matching silk tie, £110....
...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....
...and commercial acquisitions his holding company, Esperanza Carmel, has made is the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Mrs Clinton Walker House....
...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...
...Between them, a few solitary visitors in hats and scarves are on a walking tour of the 44 architectural curiosities hidden in the 600-acre grounds – from Frank Gehry’s pick-up-sticks-esque pavilion to Andy...
...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...
...Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, L’Escargot and The Square) before returning to his native Vancouver....
...Aesop’s gross margin tops that of L’Oréal itself at a sudsy 87.1 per cent....
...They also shared a cool sensibility, a facility with visual and verbal quips, and a fondness for trompe-l’oeil trickery....
...The story began with Jean Vuarnet, a ski racer from Morzine who invented the position de l’oeuf, an aerodynamic tuck that helped him win Olympic gold at Squaw Valley in 1960....
...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...
...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....
...The longtime chief executive of Warner Bros Records made a name for himself through astute signings — among his success stories were Frank Sinatra, Joni Mitchell, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Madonna....
...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....
...Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1921 Hollyhock House, a pioneer in the southern California now-cliché of indoor-outdoor living, makes its debut as a contemporary exhibition space with Entanglements, a joint show of...
...rises, according to L&C Mortgages....
...That’s like a jar of money across all social media. So do come say hi. Claer Barrett And Bola? Bola Sol You can find me on social media on all platforms: Bola_Sol. That’s B-O-L-A underscore S-O-L....
...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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