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...The single-owner Art Deco collection is being presented in collaboration with the online platform Understanding Jewellery, whose founders — former Sotheby’s colleagues David Bennett and Daniela Mascetti...
...At the time, his Swiss wealth advisers pulled together a list of assets to secure financing that included the crown jewel of his family fortune: The Holme....
...Photographer: Thomas Chene/SevenSix; Stylist: Marine Chaumien; Talent: Sheryl Bennett @Marilyn Agency; Hair and Make-up: Sophea Yen Find out about our latest stories first — follow @financialtimesfashion...
...One was the well-timed purchase of GSO Capital Partners in 2008, which is today the crown jewel of Blackstone’s $178bn credit business....
...“Up until that point, nobody knew — apart from the men who engraved them — that the jewels had been inscribed with this very personal language between the duke and duchess,” says Bennett....
...Likewise the author Nigel West (aka Rupert Allason, a former Tory MP) and Oleg Tsarev, a retired KGB colonel, identified Pokrovsky as the letter’s author in their 1998 book, The Crown Jewels....
...The Village marks the start of a fresh chapter under new artistic director Nadia Fall at this red and gold jewel box of a theatre in east London....
...First-time participant Carbon gallery of Dubai is displaying works by British artist Amba Sayal-Bennett, who is doing a PhD at Goldsmiths....
...They had elicited 23 cut and polished diamonds, the largest a 50ct round brilliant, set into a six-piece suite of jewels (above)....
...only managed about 10 bars but had loin wrapped in seaweed served on a pebble, belly cleverly made to look like bone marrow and a Perspex box with compartments containing different cuts that looked like jewels...
...In Hong Kong this week, the De Beers Millennium blue diamond fetched $31.8m — the highest price recorded for a jewel at auction in Asia....
...s jewels as “the real watershed”....
...Here, a mammoth diamond leaf-spray brooch is worn centre-stage on a tangerine gown, while model Helen Bennett’s arm is clamped into a handcuff-sized Flato bracelet....
...David Bennett, worldwide chairman of Sotheby’s international jewellery division, says coloured stones continue to rise in value, reflecting their appreciation by a widening audience and their corresponding...
...The couple amassed a peerless collection of artworks and an impressive coterie of house guests: the Prince of Wales, Alan Bennett and Lucian Freud were frequent visitors....
...A more extravagant piece turned up trumps at Christie’s May Magnificent Jewels sale in Geneva: a necklace anchored by a drop-shaped natural pearl with a diamond-set cap and detachable link chain....
...With an estimate in excess of $60m, the 59.60 carat fancy vivid Pink Star diamond is a stellar lot, up for auction on November 13 at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels sale in Geneva....
...David Bennett, chairman of jewellery at Sotheby’s, is unreserved in his praise for Mr Rosenthal’s achievements....
...Mr Bennett describes prices now achieved by natural pearls as spectacular. “They are the rising stars of all gemstones.”...
...into her jewel room, often to try them on,” he says....
...“When I started 35 years ago, fine pieces of Art Deco jewellery were brought to be broken up for the stones,” says David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby’s Jewellery (Europe and Middle East)....
...Best of all, Alan Bennett was sitting two tables away. When I returned that evening, the museum was closed and, instead, the Dining Room was reached by an entrance round the corner on St Giles....
...Modest central and eastern European operations – arguably the jewels in Bawag’s crown – and non-core assets have been sold, and efforts made to improve earnings in the core Austrian retail business under...
...“Everyone likes dealing with Bennett,” says Mark Etley, head of the group at Deutsche Bank in New York that deals with private equity firms....
...www.hayfestival.com/segovia St Petersburg Jewel of Russia Festival From October 27 to 31 a cross-cultural, multimedia happening in Russia’s most beautiful city aims to bring together figures from across...
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