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...home appliances and furniture....
...John Lewis has 34 department stores, sells a range of mid to upper-range fashion brands such as Jigsaw and Whistles, and relies heavily on technology and furniture and furnishings to bolster its top line...
...Lelièvre and Quenin 1865 The French heritage fabric house is presenting its Quenin 1865 brand – the revival of a historic French company established in 1865 during Lyon’s silk-industry boom....
...A keen thrifter, she has filled her home with midcentury furniture and charity-shop finds, including vases, sets of china and a painting by the Australian artist John Brack....
...Since then, Anduril has raised about $2.8bn. Thiel’s venture firm, Founders Fund, put in $400mn, its single largest cash investment into any company....
...Home Depot pointed to customers delaying big home improvement projects and focusing on smaller ones....
...I’m not feeling like a founder of a Kharkiv company but of a Ukrainian company.” In the long run, the sector has aspirations to be a global defence tech industry on the model of Tel Aviv’s....
...This represented a slowdown from the first quarter, when the economy expanded 2.2 per cent....
...Alongside bamboo furniture, there are sculptures of figures and animals in metal or colourful papier-mâché that line the ornate white shelves at the museum’s entrance....
...The stores, filled with midcentury furniture and occasional capsules by the famed 20th-century French jeweller Line Vautrin (and a James Turrell light installation in the London shop), are already an excellent...
...Zegna creates minimal suits and separates in high-performing technical fabrics woven at the company’s own mill....
...We’d reached the Bivacco Val Loga, a small unmanned hut at 2,750m, when we decided to turn around. We were well above the tree line, and the weather wasn’t likely to improve any time soon....
...Royal Caribbean is basing only one of its cruises, the 2,137-cabin Spectrum of the Seas, in Singapore as its home port, as its former port Hong Kong only removed cruise restrictions in October....
...As the two lines plot their very different courses, industry observers are uncertain which, if either, strategy will pay off....
...When her company was sold to Opengate Capital in 2010, her dream to spend more time in her studio became a reality....
...Today, I will aim to write about 2,000 words on my next book, and when I stop I’ll be wondering where the tale will pick up tomorrow....
...Steam power was upgraded to electricity by the 1890s and, after the number of lines grew, the companies running them started to work together in 1908 to promote the underground as a coherent brand....
...Meyler’s roster of 2,000 or so properties includes mostly notable homes, such as those designed by Richard Neutra or Greene & Greene....
...Seong’s upbeat comments on Vietnam come as gloom in the global economy has weighed on a number of industries, including fashion and furniture — two of the top five product categories that companies in Vietnam...
..., even as a changing global wage landscape and energy arbitrage are bringing the production of lower margin goods such as textiles or furniture closer to home....
...Captains of Industry level 1, 2 Somerset Place, Melbourne, VIC 3000 Good for: Velvety flat whites, “Magic” mushrooms, leather goods Not good for: People put off by someone cutting hair where they eat...
...“We won’t do furniture, though,” concludes Chapman. Never, I ask? “Well, never say never about anything,” he laughs....
...It’s good to see where Meta draws the line on the handling of sensitive information. Rating 2/10: The elephant in the room whispers softly as you’re crushed against the wall....
...“A stable regulatory environment is a requirement for the development of an industry,” Sun says....
...While it is forecasting double-digit declines for home prices in Austin and San Francisco this year, it is predicting a 0.8 per cent gain for Miami and a 2.4 per cent bump next year....
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