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...“Perfumes are like jewels when worn,” says Laurent, a Corsican who began her career as an apprentice to master perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain....
...In the south-west city of Bayonne on the Atlantic coast, mayor Jean René Etchegaray has had some success in curbing the platforms....
...“The festival not only celebrates local talent, but brings people from all over the country, from Europe, from Alain Ducasse to René Redzepi and TV chefs from the Food Network — industry people and fans...
...“She and my grandfather loved art, and collected the art of their time: André Lanskoy or Serge Poliakoff, Hans Hartung, Jean-Michel Atlan,” he says. But Houzé set off on a different route....
...Headlined by two René Magritte paintings, the auction house will offer 33 works with a combined estimate of at least $120mn, 15 of which will be in a dedicated sale on May 16....
...Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile)” (1983), sold by the fashion designer Valentino Garavani partly to benefit the brand’s staff training facilities, went for $58mn ($67.1mn with fees,...
...As well as showing about 1,200 works from its collection (which numbers about 50,000 globally), the bank has commissioned wall-works by three emerging British artists — Simeon Barclay, Rene Matić and Claire...
...The Braglia Foundation offers an outstanding art collection that includes works by Giorgio de Chirico, René Magritte and Jean-Michel Basquiat, while Museo Hermann Hesse is devoted to the work of the German-Swiss...
...The London gallery Modern Art now represents the Dutch artist René Daniëls and will mount an exhibition of his works on paper made between 1976 and 1987, their first UK showing (January 12-March 11, price...
...Both watches made their debut at around the same time as scuba diving took off, and both Rolex’s then marketing director René-Paul Jeanneret and Blancpain’s CEO Jean-Jacques Fiechter were early adopters...
...I half-expected him to be wearing chef’s whites, but he’s in jeans and a grey-blue jumper, his broad smile instantly recognisable. I apologise for being early. “I’m always early too,” he says....
...René Magritte, a leading figure in the Surrealist movement known for his reality-distorting paintings....
...Last year, Finca Cortesin, one of the finest hotels in Andalucía, bought a substantial stake in it and will relaunch it this spring following a major refurbishment (both hotels will have the same manager, René...
...A starter of oysters arrives from the kitchens, where Jean Imbert, the hotshot chef at the Plaza Athénée, is manning the stoves....
...The deal’s failure brought an immediate management shake-up and Segars was replaced by Rene Haas, head of the company’s intellectual property unit....
...A live band provides the entertainment, but the cinematic views are theatre enough for sipping champagne and sampling the Mediterranean fare created by Jean-Philippe Blondet of Alain Ducasse’s eponymous...
...Cap Royal 2019 Bordeaux Supérieur is another cleverly sourced wine, a precociously approachable £10 red bordeaux made by Jean-René Matignon, the former technical director of the overperforming second growth...
...The most famous Surrealist image here, René Magritte’s phallic locomotive steaming through a fireplace, “Time Transfixed” (1938), makes the point....
...having its antecedents in a distinctively French tradition of reactionary cultural pessimism that stretches back to the early 19th century and writers such as the apologist for ecclesiastical power François-René...
...The film she showed me across the table was shot with a tight group of her frequent collaborators: the film-makers Lola Raban-Oliva and Jean-René Étienne and the artist, musician and model Eliza Douglas,...
...After replacing Jean Pierre Mustier as head of UniCredit earlier this year, one of the new chief’s first orders of business was to tick off a long-held priority of UniCredit’s chair Pier Carlo Padoan: the...
...A recent “find” is René Boivin, a jewellery designer from the early 20th century, whose work is refined and elegant....
...Meanwhile in Europe, the French gallerist Denise René (1913-2012) was one of the foremost promoters of abstract art, Op-art and kinetic art....
...Both these works were first shown by the Paris gallerist of the avant-garde, René Drouin, who also hosted a landmark exhibition for Fautrier in November 1945....
...In 1964, she asked family friend René Magritte to tutor her. She was the only pupil the artist ever took on, and visited him twice a month for a year....
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