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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....
...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....
...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....
...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...
...Jackie Wullschläger is the FT’s chief visual arts critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTWeekend on Instagram and X, and subscribe to our podcast Life & Art wherever you listen...
...Walter Van Beirendonck, fashion designer The best gift I’ve given recently is a set of chairs to my husband for his birthday that were handmade in Mexico....
...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’...
...He also created hit accessories including the Dionysus and Jackie 1961 bags and Princetown mules....
...Jackie Wullschläger is the FT’s chief visual arts critic....
...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....
...Such things — the only portrait, fragile, damaged, amateurish, of the three Brontës; Nicholas Hilliard’s miniature of dashing Walter Raleigh in a sea of lace — are iconic and beloved for their rarity alone...
...I’ve also got a Landseer of Sir Walter Scott, which is a very big picture. It’s worth more than all the others put together. I couldn’t do without my dogs....
...Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, to May 29, musee-orangerie.frMusée Matisse, Nice, June 23-September 24, musee-matisse-nice.org...
...Four years after Picasso’s death, Walter died by suicide....
...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...
...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....
...Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger (Allen Lane)The FT’s chief visual arts critic places the evolution of the founder of Impressionism in the context of his personal life....
...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’...
...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’...
...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...
...A tank dress in putty-coloured sequins and baguette rhinestones presented a more wearable option for the Oscars, (perhaps minus the trompe l’oeil outline of boxer shorts)....
...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...
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