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...April 26 to 28; further information and tickets here Event St Patrick’s Day London celebrates St Patrick’s Day in style, with a huge, emerald-clad crowd snaking its way from Piccadilly to Trafalgar Square...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...With Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé among their ranks, their modernist vision favoured function over decoration, in more down-to-earth materials....
...Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynastyby Patrick Radden Keefe, Picador £20/Doubleday $32.50 Shortlisted for Business Book of the Year, this is an exhaustive, devastating account of how...
...Additional reporting by Patrick Temple-West in New York...
...Jewelry by Chanel by Patrick Mauriès. WHERE TO SEEThe Jewellery Gallery at the V&A, London....
...Top lot was Francis Bacon’s “Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus” (1981), which sold for $74m ($84.6m with fees, est $60m-$80m), despite not being protected by a guarantee....
...Jean Nouvel was responsible for the corrugated aluminium winery or chai, and the historic winestore has been converted by the exhibition specialist Jean-Michel Wilmotte into a space that is host (until December...
...More details have emerged about the run-up to Sotheby’s acquisition by the billionaire businessman Patrick Drahi last month....
...Noble Francis: There is unlikely to be a substantial levelling up in 2021....
...Jean Dawnay would later detail her time at Dior in her memoir, Model Girl....
...By contrast, Gurney, 41, is head-to-toe in black: black jeans with a slight flare, black sweater, black Alexander McQueen boots. She has been working on costumes for The Hunt....
...A specialist in 20th-century designers, such as Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier and Jean Royère, Seguin has had a Paris gallery (designed by Jean Nouvel) for almost 30 years, and a London space...
...“The initial V-shaped recovery was not achieved because he was a foreigner, but it was because he was Carlos Ghosn,” says Yutaka Suzuki, a former Nissan executive tipped to become the Japanese group’s CEO...
...This month it begins a series of special exhibitions that showcase the V-A-C collection, a trove of international modern and contemporary work that ranges from Modigliani to Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon...
...V for one, England’s Henry VIII for another — but also to God....
...But the FT’s financial editor Patrick Jenkins is sceptical. Here’s what he had to say: Commerzbank is not only unprofitable right now but seems intrinsically unable to make a decent return....
...Jean-Pierre Mustier: Cost in translation Longtime London resident Jean-Pierre Mustier will soon be on a plane to Milan as the new chief executive of Italy’s troubled UniCredit....
...Francis Sultana Interior designer and chief executive of David Gill Gallery, an art and furniture gallery in Mayfair, London....
...Jean Nouvel built the gleaming winery, and Frank Gehry the music pavilion....
...One wine I thought GV and delightfully tense is Jean-Marc Vincent, Beaurepaire Premier Cru 2013 Santenay, on offer from The Wine Society at £29. This should age well....
...Additional reporting by Patrick Jenkins...
...So I open our meeting with a devastatingly considered question: where do you get your jeans?...
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
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