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...Pilita Clark looks at why the backlash against gender equality is real, despite the fact that women are far from equal in any country....
...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....
...I have known the people who own this place (Nathalie and Gérard Paganucci) for 30 years....
...Estabel a 2023 vigneron de l’année....
...“What made Avoriaz a success was that it was a succession of completely crazy projects,” said Gérard Brémond....
...Today’s visitors are “completely enveloped” by Hugo’s decor at Hauteville House, says Gérard Audinet, director of Maisons de Victor Hugo....
...Thanks to Monet, the British art historian Kenneth Clark said, “every day we pause with joy before some effect of light which we should otherwise have passed without notice”....
...Group trading update, EDF H1, Elementis H1, Ford Motor Company Q2, Foxtons H1, Frasers Group FY, Geox H1, Hammerson H1, Inchcape H1, Informa H1, Intel Q2, ITV H1, Jupiter Fund Management H1, Kering H1, L’...
...These are the components of the Granolas: GSK, Roche, ASML, Nestlé, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, L’Oréal, LVMH, AstraZeneca, SAP, Sanofi. Trips off the tongue, right? Granolas....
...Christmas tree candelabra from Montes and Clark, £38 Handmade in Oaxaca from embossed tin. montesandclark.com Aria glass by Laguna~B for The Conran Shop, £99 Made in Murano, in a range of colours. conranshop.co.uk...
...Although I wasn’t persuaded by trompe l’oeil trousers painted to look like jeans, because ultimately, they still look like unflattering “dad denim”....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
...“Next slide, please” by Claire L Evans in the MIT Technology Review also charts the moment when PowerPoint changed everything: the person giving the presentation could also prepare it....
...Read on for why boards and executives need to oversee corporate culture as well as the P&L, and in Office Therapy I advise a worker without children doing a lot of extra cover for the mothers on her team...
...Such was the profusion of advertising talent that in the late 1940s, future novelists Joseph Heller and Mary Higgins Clark briefly worked for the same New York agency....
...£29.25 Haynes Hanson & Clark Marrone 2018 Barolo 14%Very energetic! Long and lively....
From the power of radical positive action to moral responsibility and a child’s perspective — a round-up of the latest works addressing the challenge of our time
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...When l made the point to her about coping so well, she answered, ‘well l work for a **** company where nothing works, so I’m used to broken equipment and being stress-tested by game-playing stupid senior...
...£34.95 Mr Wheeler, £37.70 Haynes Hanson & Clark Lancelot-Pienne, Accord Majeur Brut NV ChampagneAmbitious, interesting wine for the money....
...Küfer joined Disguise in 2015, having previously worked in financial roles at companies including Lidl, L’Oréal, Ultra Motor and A2B Bikes....
...After acquiring it in 1998, the owner Gérard Perse pursued a policy for many years of making a wine that was as concentrated, tough and exaggerated as possible....
...Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark (Allen Lane) Clark charts the emergence of a new Europe in an exhilarating reappraisal of 1848 — one of the most dramatic and...
...Escorted by a military band, it was carried through the grounds of L’Echangeur, a tower built in 1974 as a monument to Lumumba....
...Even if I couldn’t always hear the waiter or indeed my guest over the band’s lively rendition of “Tu Vuo’ Fa’ l’Americano”, the razzmatazz worked its magic....
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