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...The Safra sale comprises 76 lots including “Unequal Lovers” (estimate $800,000-$1.2mn) by the 17th-century Dutch painter Hendrick ter Brugghen....
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...She cites the Hitchcock shower curtain, the 50s inclined Hendricks sofa (after the actress Christina Hendricks in Mad Men) as examples. Fair point....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...outsourcing hub during the 1980s....
...He reportedly outbid three kings for it, including Britain’s King George V – today it remains the only rare stamp not in the Queen’s collection....
...Hamdi Chatti is vice-president of jewellery and watches at Louis Vuitton and the house presented its first high jewellery collection only last year....
...Underwear and sport have a long and fruitful association: think David Beckham and those Armani briefs, or Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo in vacuum-packed Calvin Kleins on that Vanity Fair cover....
...If you total up auction sales in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Japan over the past year, the figure outstrips the US for the first time – €130m v €123m....
...Terminal point PayPoint, the payment terminals system, has lost its contract with Allpay.net, the outsourced collection agent for local authorities and other public sector bodies....
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