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...In the mixed-owner portion, 10 works went unsold, including a 1938 Picasso painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter against a pink background, estimated $20mn-$30mn....
...When I made a show garden with Ann-Marie Powell back in 2010 we had two people on leaf-polishing duty who would have passed out if they’d seen the state of some of Massey’s leaves....
...From $495, salthotels.com High-design home in coastal Tuscany Tuscany’s Monte Argentario peninsula is perennially in demand (thanks in great part to the chef-of-magic talents of Marie-Louise Sciò, she...
...In 1891, Rodin modelled “Iris, Messenger of the Gods” — a headless woman with splayed legs, genitalia exposed, portrayed as if leaping or flying — on a cancan dancer....
...It’s a subject close to the heart of French jeweller Chaumet, which helped to realise the show and whose identity is deeply rooted in the botanical world; Marie-Étienne Nitot, the founder of the maison,...
...But in the end, the scents of Santa Maria Novella belong to Florence, in all its subtle, complex, lovely austerity, from the thyme, bay and iris of the Florentine hills to the cool shadowy recesses of an...
...The economics of the €132bn global jewellery industry also attracted longtime friends Mie Marie Ejdrup and Caroline Chalmer, who decided to found online retailer Finematter, headquartered in Copenhagen and...
...Walter, and Rodin’s leaping, open-legged fin-de-siècle shocker “Iris, Messenger of the Gods”....
...Even smaller are the reticulate iris, such as vivid-blue Harmony and white-and-purple Painted Lady, which reach just 15cm tall and flower in late winter and early spring....
...Iris Apfel is a fan, and included some pieces from Caputi’s Giuggiù collection in her Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition. I love her recent Ocean collection....
...Marie Lecomte, 45, from Dijon, says: “We should be able to look up to the president, to have someone who shows the best of France.”...
...What Works by Professor Iris Bohnet of Harvard University offers practical suggestions for reducing bias in hiring, pointing out, for example, that blind auditions increased the number of female musicians...
...Among the larger-flowered whites, I still choose old Marie Boisselot....
...It is also one of many readable examples with which Iris Bohnet, professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, peppers What Works: Gender Equality by Design....
...They are admiring his iris Anne-Marie Cayeux....
...Tim Pigott-Smith plays George, the college professor, and Clare Higgins his wife, a grim couple who invite a young couple (Iris Roberts and Nathan Wiley) over for drinks and subject them to a display of...
...“Blue-white-red, France is white,” the white skinhead “Boulogne” end of the ground would chant or, in honour of the long-time far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, “Jean-Marie, président!”...
...Under my jersey of labelled Iris japonica “Ledger”, I think I would wear a Dior dress....
...In 2010, Jane Owen and Ann-Marie Powell created a rainforest garden for Green & Black’s, the chocolate makers, to highlight the plight of the indigenous peoples of Cameroon....
...These then overflow into borders containing the sorts of plants that don’t mind a drenching (such as Rodgersias and Iris sibirica)....
...Indeed, the meticulous attention to detail is such that prunus, pomegranates, clematis, iris, peonies, carnations, lilies, wisteria, hydrangea, the ubiquitous chrysanthemum and other Japanese flora are all...
...The Italian government ended up in this position and needed to consolidate the banks’ assets into a state holding company, IRI, that for six decades ran most of the Italian economy....
...Another potential roadblock is the push by Michèle Alliot-Marie, the French defence minister, to merge DCN, a naval shipbuilder, with Thales....
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