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...“I think my mother came to have the better eye,” says Marie-Victoire. “My father would choose objects that were classical and saleable....
...Among the best-respected dealers was Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun: husband to the celebrated portrait painter (and friend and favourite of Marie Antoinette) Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, he sold his wares...
...Last year she asked Atelier Soleil, led by master craftsman Franck Scherer, to make her range of faience serving ware using centuries-old techniques of embossing, throwing and moulding by hand....
...Goujou continues to sell the wares of these same artisans, all of whom are based in France, none of whose names he reveals....
...Marie-Louise Sciò will be speaking at “The Roaring ’20s: a new golden age of glamour?”...
...The artificial flowers at Harvard University [the famed Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants] are among the best botanicals I’ve ever seen.”...
...North Korea is reaping rewards from cyber theft and Marie Kondo, the Japanese clutter-phobe, is the animating genius behind a Japanese “unicorn”....
...On one of the longest and hottest days of the year in Paris, Jonathan Anderson had his Loewe audience file into a concrete bunker to see its Spring/Summer 2020 wares....
...Blood and rotting produce would no longer flow and squelch into the streets; wares could be inspected and traders kept under the government’s gaze....
...As 290 of the world’s most respected galleries prepare to sell their wares at Art Basel this week (June 14-17), the talk of the market continues to centre on the “squeezed middle”, namely those many businesses...
...Her paintings of birds, Jean-Luc’s fine raku-ware, both seemed to have emerged from the garden and the sky as much as from anywhere else....
...Marie-Claire Daveu, Kering’s chief sustainability officer, declined to say how much the company had spent on the Thai python farm, which is still being developed....
...As Anne-Marie Slaughter explains in Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, from the 1960s the women’s movement copied this male notion....
...Few of the bloggers had tasted much Swiss wine before and most were impressed, not least with the assembly of 40 top producers who showed a range of their wares after Vouillamoz’s presentation....
...Part Marie Antoinette, part Paco Rabanne, the heels were a well-assembled puzzle of glass. Meanwhile, Etro, an Italian fashion house found its small paisley rings were selling out....
...After years of travelling, selling his wares overseas, in 1973 he decided to establish a store in Knightsbridge....
...This week saw the opening of her first solo show at Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud in Brussels, a specialist dealer in decorative arts and contemporary ceramics that also exhibits at Design Miami....
...A look around the exotic wares at this year’s watch fairs confirms that, from Hermes’ watch with a funky blue horse galloping across the dial to Cartier’s exotic and brightly coloured animal enamels or Jaeger-LeCoultre...
...Having started with 15 in 2005, it now has commissions from names such as Marcel Wanders, Naoto Fukasawa, Jean-Marie Massaud, Jakob Wagner and Johanna Grawunder....
...Anne-Marie Schleiner’s “Velvet Strike” enabled its characters to spray anti-war graffiti instead of bullets....
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