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...The analysis only takes in prospective candidates rather than sitting MPs standing for re-election and has tracked 134 parliamentary selections by the Conservatives and 206 by Labour....
...The company we’re talking about here is Castore....
...She has been portrayed on screen numerous times, including in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, in which Asia Argento plays her as a vulgar prostitute....
...They’re not alone: luxury faux flowers are having a moment. Patrick Oude Groeniger founded the luxe artificial flower business Silk-ka in the 1980s (a former florist, he developed a pollen allergy)....
...At a Christie’s sale in Paris late last year, a painted “Etruscan” armchair that once adorned Marie Antoinette’s apartments at Versailles, still retaining its original blue and grey pigment, hammered down...
...We’re off for a long weekend....
...“I related to that character the most because as a designer — we’re quirky. So I really wanted to pull out that nerdy ’80s vibe with him,” says Antoinette....
...Seconds later, we’re back on the main road. A giant cartoon bow made from fairy lights catches my eye, wrapped around the edifice of a hotel, a picture-perfect present....
...“We’re all wanting to drive our own green revolutions, our digital revolutions, and we’re competing with Germany and the US and the UK and Canada,” Andrew Rose from the Australian Permanent Mission to the...
...Like we’re in a big battle and then we’re in a little bedroom scene with Josephine, and then we’re in a big battle and then a little scene. And I kept thinking like, Wait, where are we?...
...Antoinette, now 39, grew up in Maryland, in a Pentecostal family....
...Her references are as unashamedly girly as the cake in front of her. “I loved ’80s wedding cakes and Marie Antoinette....
...I mean, I’m not sure where you’re going to get an iPhone, for example.”...
...Even large institutional investors sometimes have a hard time figuring out exactly what they’re paying....
...They’ve got all the pedigree and corporate mileage you could hope for, but they’re putting in sweat equity like a couple of teenage hopefuls....
...Many of the pieces come with illustrious provenance (Savonnerie rugs designed for the Louvre; a sewing table made for Marie Antoinette; silver service commissioned by Catherine II of Russia), all of it arrayed...
...Such secrecy has always existed in grand houses. In Marie Antoinette’s case, only a few close confidantes would have been privy to her escape route....
...While I have never stayed in a hotel in Northampton, I can vouch for the shoeshining services in London hotels, and, in particular, at The Ritz (which endearingly adds a little Marie-Antoinette flourish...
...Antoinette Sayeh, deputy managing director and acting chair of the IMF’s executive board, said maintaining the reform measures would be crucial....
...They elicit a sly nod, a wink – we’re in on the joke. And then, maybe, people buy them....
...“We’re in a niche market, so we don’t expect to attract clients from passersby,” says Trebosc, who, together with van Lelyveld, studied art history at the École du Louvre....
...“You’re afraid that he outshines you because he does.” It’s a brutal assessment delivered to Rebekah Neumann, the wife of Adam, co-founder of WeWork in WeCrashed, the TV drama....
...The Santos watch, for example, was created by Louis Cartier for his friend the Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, in 1904....
...Konig has used wallpapers from Soane, lamps from Antoinette Poisson and tweed carpet by Tim Page, and no two bedrooms are the same....
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