Hints and tips:
...Whether stamped on the vinyl floor of a 1950s diner, tessellating down a Victorian hallway, or stencilled atop a Mini Cooper, the simple checkerboard pattern has always made an impact....
...I really enjoyed reading Yuan Yang’s obituary of Isabel Crook, a British centenarian who became a Maoist, and Imogen West-Knights on Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose....
...The Guggenheim Museum, for example, is in Carnegie Hill, on Fifth Avenue, as is the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum....
...When Tom Ford released his version of the Gucci Jackie, named after Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and priced at $575 in October 1998, he sold more than 30,000 units in less than a year....
...Participants range in age from the 77-year-old Jacqueline, on her 15th Rallye des Princesses and driving a 1982 Porsche 911 Targa, to the 23-year-old first-timer Evgenia in a Mercedes-Benz 190 SL 1959....
...As a young man, he met Picasso through his then partner, the art dealer Douglas Cooper. He went on to become the seigneurial front-of-house man for Christie’s in New York....
...Many despair of films like Burnt (starring Bradley Cooper) for perpetuating the cliché of the kitchen-dictator-mad-genius....
...Jacqueline Kennedy once noted that the name “sounds like a saddle horse”. Some would say the job is more suited to a show pony. Yet, even in this regard, Melania Trump has cut an unusual figure....
...Carla throws on a rabbit-fur chub — women wore fur in that decade like we wear a jean jacket now — and they make their getaway in a bright yellow Mini Cooper, zipping madly through the cobblestoned streets...
...He also befriended Picasso’s young second wife Jacqueline Roque and was rewarded when she came to control access to Picasso....
...Khosrovani-Diba bought the watercolour from the estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1996. The sale brought a total £2.5m (£3.1m with fees, est £1m-£1.5m)....
...I’m about to start Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen. Phone on or off? I don’t think I’ll get the chance to do a true digital detox myself this summer....
...Richardson “backed the right horse” by befriending Jacqueline Roque, who eventually became the second Madame Picasso and determined access to the master....
...In 1995, they buy a Picasso portrait of his second wife Jacqueline Roque (pictured) for $2.6m; it sells in 2007 for $30.6m....
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