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...GP & J Baker x Kit Kemp Design Studio Designer and hotelier Kit Kemp’s first collaboration with British fabric and wallpaper house GP & J Baker transmutes her eclectic style into colour-saturated prints...
...Bank of America Q4, Bank of New York Mellon Q4, BlackRock Q4, Citigroup Q4, Delta Air Lines Q4, HCL Technologies Q3, JPMorgan Chase Q4, UnitedHealth Q4, Vistry trading update, Wells Fargo Q4, Wipro Q3, Wood...
...I’m now looking forward to the audiobook of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood — a thriller with a climactic twist....
...Farrand shared the house with her maid, Clementine Walter. Walter’s little room looked out on to the yellows and hot reds, whereas Farrand’s rooms looked out on to beds of softer colours....
...Judge Arthur Engoron has already found that the former president and his adult sons, Donald Jr and Eric, inflated their wealth by as much as $2.2bn in order to secure loans for their family business on advantageous...
...In a dim room, Walter Cronkite’s tearful announcement plays on one wall, while mournful magazine covers line up along another....
...And I think it was because I knew about lithography and typesetting that after university I was hired by J Walter Thompson,” she recalls of the advertising agency that at the time also employed Bridget Riley...
...Wednesday: The Christmas trading update from J Sainsbury, the first of the big supermarkets to report, is the big event....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...The Kaufmann Office has been in store for most of the time since it was presented to the V&A museum by Edgar J....
...Miller Jr, attorney, Washington, DC, August 10 1976; James Angleton, former chief of counter-intelligence, CIA, Arlington, Virginia, July 8 1976; Lady Bird Johnson, former US First Lady, McLean, Virginia...
...Follow David J Lynch on Twitter: @davidjlynch...
...In March 2016, Gustavo Martinez resigned as chief executive of the J Walter Thompson advertising agency after a female executive at the WPP unit filed a lawsuit accusing him of racist and sexist behaviour...
...The following year, in April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr would be assassinated by a white man, and those cities would erupt again....
...Walter Sickert called the effects “slapdash”, but especially when anchored by architectural elements, as in “The Spanish Fountain”, Sargent’s compositions are orchestrated with terrific sureness of touch...
...That’s about it for this JR. We never meet the historical, many-sided Ruskin....
...Even so, she loved what she found, as in time did her husband, Walter, a wealthy Chicago businessman....
...In their very different ways, Bush Jr and Obama show the opposite. To Michael J Glennon, in National Security and Double Government, the shifting personalities are mere detail....
...Wassily Kandinsky lived in a streamlined white apartment but, incongruously, cooked on a “kamin” – a Russian wood-burning stove made from heavily ornamented black iron....
...A.J.P. Taylor, the Birkdale-born historian, attributed Lancastrian whimsicality to the “south-west wind, bringing an atmosphere that is always blurred and usually gentle”....
...The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, by Benn Steil, Princeton, RRP£19.95/$29.95 Steil’s book is an object lesson in how to make economic...
...An urbane British former advertising executive, Scott enjoyed prestigious European postings with Saatchi and J Walter Thompson before deciding that what he really needed from life was more skiing....
...Sam Taylor-Wood, film director. Member, MBE James Alexander, for services to Scottish traditional music. Don Anthony, athlete. Jonathan Arnold, for services to English furniture makers....
...Some of these date back to the early 17th century – notable examples include Skultuna, Darlana, Mora, Grillby Metallfabrik, and J & CG Bolinder....
...His only stipulation is that he is donating in his parents’ names – often his actual father, Lieutenant Commander Arthur Landis Jr, a former US Navy officer....
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