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...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...unique access to some of the loveliest gardens in south-west England — many of them private, set in the rolling hills of the Jurassic Coast with its golden cliffs....
...When in residence, her friends – Laurence Leenaert of LRNCE or designer Louis Barthélemy – might pop by, which makes one feel immediately part of the city’s vibrant scene....
...To this day, many Americans will take their first steps on the road to appreciating art via the legacy of Frick, Rockefeller, Carnegie et al....
...district of Surry Hills has an embarrassment of great cafés, but there’s no better spot for whiling away the day than Paramount....
...But the renewal of Claridge’s is different; it is a renewal of his commitment to London, “one of the greatest cities, if not the greatest, on Earth”....
...But in May 1927, Charles Lindbergh in his Spirit of St Louis aircraft successfully crossed the Atlantic, landing, 33 and a half hours later, at Le Bourget airfield where he was mobbed by a crowd of 150,000...
...We have a hideaway in the hills that is my sanctuary. I am a person of contrasts, and Sicily is exactly that....
...Gallery, then home to Bacon, Pollock, Henry Moore et al, as saying, “I don’t collect art, I collect money.”...
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...“I was invited to create a work for a station in St Louis the next year,” Irwin continues. “And some smart-ass guy says: ‘That son of a bitch will just put up a piece of string and run.’...
...James Lovegrove Literary non-fiction Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25 / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$35 Crawford’s exhaustive account of TS Eliot...
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...Kahn, Kansas City Fed Doubling Your Monetary Base and Surviving: Some International Experience – Anderson et al, St Louis Fed The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet and Earnings: A primer and projections –...
...His elucidation of works such as the St Matthew Passion makes you want to listen to the music afresh....
...Andrew Hill …………………………………………………………….....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...The decline of St Louis was the subject of Franzen’s first novel, 1988’s The Twenty-Seventh City, which was well received, as was Strong Motion, an exploration of dysfunctional family-life....
...C London 2325 Davies St, London W1 Grilled swordfish with boiled potatoes and green salad £28.00 Risotto alla primavera £21.30 Bottle of sparkling mineral water £4.00 Bottle of still mineral water £4.00...
...With more than 200 works, the show explores how baroque design changed through the period, from the Catholic majesty of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome to the secular Palace of Versailles under Louis XIV....
...Louis, which in April re-opened a case against Ameriprise Financial’s RiverSource funds that was rejected by a lower court. The case, Gallus et al. v....
...If you’re north of 25 you must avoid all the tricks (drawstrings, dangly bits, too many pockets et al) and go for a very no-nonsense, trim pair of shorts that hit you just above the knee....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
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