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...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....
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...Frederick L Feldkamp Boyne City, MI, US...
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...Wells Fargo has named Frederick Terrell as vice-chair of investment banking, based in Los Angeles. He joins from Centerbridge Partners....
...A founding cry of modernity — liberté, égalité, fraternité — made no mention of sécurité or l’ordre, without which nothing else is possible....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...One thing to start: German sandal maker Birkenstock is seeking a valuation of more than $8bn from an initial public offering, as its private equity owner L Catterton unveiled its filing for a stock market...
...Letter in response to this article: JPMorgan’s status today has echoes from the Depression / From Frederick L Feldkamp, Boyne City, MI, US...
...Beginning in the 1960s, David and Frederick Barclay also created a business empire that included property, retail and media assets, notably ownership of Telegraph Media Group....
...N’Diaye-Mbaye is all glossy skin and Harlem charm when we speak over lunch at one of her local haunts on Frederick Douglass Boulevard....
...I like that idea today but will l like it in two years?” She admits that she did more than usual during the pandemic....
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...Kendall is passed over by his father to become chief executive, but still ends up singing a laudatory, cringe-inducing rap: “L to the O, G, A, N.”...
...Washington, Frederick Douglass and George Washington Carver. The muralists’ heyday was steeped in ironies....
...Frederick Wimsett’s preferred medium is 18th-century chinoiserie....
...Olivia Grandville’s A l’Ouest was more muted in its effects, yet ultimately more absorbing....
...Other highlights include three anonymous works: a 17th-century Dutch school painting of a King Charles spaniel (£1,500-£2,000), a 19th-century French school trompe l’oeil of a nun peeking through a shutter...
...Lagarde comes to Brussels fresh from receiving the Grand Prix de l’Économie from France’s Les Echos newspaper. mehreen.khan@ft.com ; @mehreenkhn...
...The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, by William L Silber, Princeton University Press RRP£24/$29.95 William Silber’s book is mostly about silver in American history...
...Frederick Winterhalter: ‘Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with Five of Their Children’c. Paul Cézanne: ‘Théière et oranges (La Nappe)’d....
...Combine a dip with a visit to Sanssouci, Frederick the Great’s 18th-century summer palace, or the Barberini, an art gallery in Potsdam....
...He sold Pierre Soulages’ “Composition” (c.1952) for €450,000, and André Masson’s “L’homme ivre (l’homme libre)” (1962) for €220,000. Both works were acquired by European collectors....
...Birmingham Royal Ballet finally bucked this sorry trend in Bristol with a welcome revival of Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée, the well-loved tale of an ambitious mother, her resourceful daughter and...
...Lottery players have lost interest in paltry prizes — letter by R L Parsons in Shrops “From my own experience and talking to other players, the feeling now is that even if you “win” you’ll get very little...
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