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...Goldman Sachs has named John Greenwood co-head of Latin America and head of investment banking for the region, per Reuters....
...The couple have bought the Wolff Residence, which he describes as “one of the smallest” houses by John Lautner....
...His wind-triggered harp was used by the 19th-century mill owner James Mellor to add eerie sounds to his garden, at Hough Hole House in Rainow, Cheshire, created to represent John Bunyan’s 1678 allegory The...
...Vasari noted his “difficult and ingenious inventions”; Bernard Berenson criticised figures “made of coloured marble rather than flesh and blood” — the stony children on a plinth in “The Holy Family with St John...
...He bestows similar autonomy on Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, a drawing of whom, made in 1500, is also on show....
...Smiths Group’s John Crane exposure is all downstream with the significant majority of the earnings driven by aftermarket on the installed base, both helpful....
...project in Mexico, dropping out of a Brazil luxury hotel and cancelling a mooted Buenos Aires project, the only other Trump business project in South America is a licensed building in Uruguay’s Punta del Este...
...Meanwhile, many Brazilian companies have relocated factories to Ciudad del Este — more traditionally known as a contraband hub — to take advantage of Paraguay’s low tax regime and docile unions....
...Perhaps the need for reflective, tranquil contemplation drove John Aislabie (1670-1742) to make one of the finest and most enduring water gardens ever conceived....
...john.gapper@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Brexiters’ need for a sparkling brand / From Nicholas Faith, London, UK...
...a hitherto unpublished marble “Prophet” by Cristoforo Solari, the architect and sculptor best known for his tomb of Ludovico il Moro and Beatrice d’Este in the Certosa di Pavia....
...Although Elbit will not generally discuss its clients, the company disclosed signing a contract worth $19m last year with the Maldonado district in Uruguay, home to Punta del Este, the coastal resort favoured...
...Other investors include bond trading veteran John Brynjolfsson and municipal broker-dealer Hartfield, Titus & Donnelly....
...By John Thornhill in Cernobbio Fresh from his appearance in the glossy pages of Paris Match as a model of militant chic, Yanis Varoufakis pitched up at the luxurious lakeside Villa D’Este this weekend to...
...He has a photogenic family — a wife and four children — that remind some of John F Kennedy and Barack Obama and could help him appeal to younger families....
...We can also strongly recommend the fortified town of Este in the Euganean Hills....
...Her new neighbour, she has been told, is John Pearse, tailor to stars such as the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney....
...Aaron D’Este, chief executive of east African explorer Vanoil, agrees some companies remain tempted to grab licences and to drill speculatively....
...Currency restrictions mean many may not be able to make it to their traditional beach sojourn at Punta del Este in neighbouring Uruguay....
...And there is an awful lot to blend at Villa d’Este as one small part of the English diarist John Evelyn’s description in the mid-17th-century shows: “Descending thence are two pyramids of water, and in...
...What Designed by Caribbean architect John Otway, a 7,000 sq ft house with a cliff top location and access to the beach....
...The greatest gardens in 18th-century Europe were English: the guidebook to Stowe was published in a French edition, and the best-known tour of English gardens was made by Thomas Jefferson and John Adams...
...Adlai Stevenson debated with Estes Kefauver in their 1956 race for the Democratic nomination, while John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon sparred during the general election campaign in 1960....
...The Villa d’Este at Tivoli is perhaps the best-preserved Renaissance statuary garden, and Versailles still maintains the same quantity of statuary as contemporaries would have experienced....
...This is the conversation I overheard while on the beach in Punta del Este, Uruguay. John, my film director friend, was communicating with his producers in Los Angeles via the wizardry of Skype....
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