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...The studio is now conducting the same research for the Comité Grande Armée, focusing on the area between Place de l’Étoile and the Bois de Boulogne....
...Only half of it is real; the rest is a trompe-l’œil interior imitating actual elements, books stacked against images of them, a potted plant rising next to its painted equivalent....
...Arte The brand’s showroom on Rue de l’Abbaye will be a portal to Hawaii through new wallpapers inlaid or embroidered with rattan and raffia....
...The Orsay includes prominent examples from 1874: “Sarpédon”, Henri Lévy’s three-metre tale of heroism in the Trojan wars, immediately bought by the state; Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “L’Éminence Grise”, a story about...
...exhibition juxtaposing pioneers of the first Parisian avant-garde in the 1860s-80s demonstrated the Orsay in full force: Manet’s “The Balcony” and Degas’s “The Bellelli Family”, Manet’s “Olympia” and Degas’s “L’...
...Jackie Wullschläger is the FT’s chief visual arts critic....
...The playfulness in his fiction sometimes extended further: in Leviathan, his narrator Peter Aaron married Iris Vegan, the narrator of Hustvedt’s 1992 novel The Blindfold....
...Finally, the Salle de l’Horloge returns to the show’s Renaissance origins with the Capodimonte’s choicest drawings, led by two life-size charcoal and black-chalk cartoons....
...Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, to May 29, musee-orangerie.frMusée Matisse, Nice, June 23-September 24, musee-matisse-nice.org...
...The legendary DJ Readers Wifes will kick matters off from 3pm. 11 August; from £31, heritagelive.net Glyndebourne Festival, Lewes, East SussexDon Giovanni, Semele, Dialogues des Carmélites, L’elisir d’amore...
...Manet’s most controversial family picture, “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (1863), a nude woman seated at a picnic between two clothed figures, one based on Manet’s brother, the other on his brother-in-law, hangs...
...“There weren’t many rates below 5 per cent last week, and there are a few more now,” said Aaron Strutt, director at broker Trinity Financial....
...Dear Jackie and Bar Jackie, its Italian-inflected restaurant and boîte, will be open to the public, while a second dining lounge is for residents only....
...Jahnke was inspired to join Homecourt having noticed an increased appreciation for premium products while working at L’Oréal....
...Perriand went on to succeed as a designer and architect in a man’s world: her mantra – “l’art de vivre” (“the art of living”) – born of the belief that good design could transform lives....
...later 1920s, maintains the Cérets’ curvilinear sweeps and compressed construction but is airier, radiant in colour and more ordered, as in the views of town squares in “Paysage de Cagnes avec arbre” and ‘L’...
...In the darkness, visitors appear to mingle with the dancing velvety stick-figure bats, leaping frogs and pink dragonflies from Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortileges, or with the stark black residents of Peking...
...Website; Directions— Harriet Agnew, FT asset management editor Dear Jackie 20 Broadwick Street, London W1F 9NE Deep beneath the Soho streets, Dear Jackie looks like a homage to both the neighbourhood’...
...The group also includes the most beautiful of the six simplified, tender-sombre “L’Arlésienne” portraits, depicting Madame Ginoux, proprietress of Arles’ Café de la Gare; only in this version are the flat...
...Alterations start from £25, and appointments are advised (though not necessary). kingsroad@rixo.co.uk JS L’Art de l’Aiguille, Paris Hidden away in the quiet Rue Régis, just off St-Germain-des-Prés in the...
...On an interest-only deal, that would fall to £917 a month, according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...Now Marcel Proust, La fabrique de l’oeuvre, just launched at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris to mark the centenary of the writer’s death, unfolds both the making of the text and, exhilaratingly...
...“L’heure des bleus”, the opening section, pairs a group of Monet’s water gardens with Mitchell’s fluid panorama “Quatuor II for Betsy Jolas”....
...Perhaps the defining image of alfresco dining is Édouard Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe”....
...Time’s rhythms — speeded up, slow- motion — play out fantastically to scores by Franco & L’OK Jazz, and Nhlanhla Mahlangu’s “Imimoya”, evoking ancestral spirits....
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