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...“This has been deeply rooted in the story of Chaumet, particularly since the first empire” when Nitot was jeweller to both Napoleon and Joséphine Bonaparte....
...And then we had Killers of the Flower Moon, the Scorsese, Martin Scorsese film, both done pretty well....
...Now my colleagues Laura Noonan and Josephine Cumbo reveal that the UK government is set to unveil plans next month for a new investment vehicle overseen by the state that is intended to turbocharge pensions...
...In Buchenwald, where he spent 13 months, audiences continued to chuckle, but Geyl began drafting what would flower into the masterwork of historiography that is Napoleon: For and Against....
...It was so chic that a wealthy Tampa socialite, Josephine Lee, hired Lowe on the spot after seeing her at an Alabama department store in 1916....
...But it was Chaumet’s connection to the Empire, and specifically Joséphine, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, that cemented this relationship....
...I ventured inside the hotel, into its flower shop and towards a hidden dim room with a hushed atmosphere: Mesa de Hoy, the hotel’s vegan restaurant....
...A burst of blue sapphires injected colour into another diamond solitaire, the design echoing one of Roemer’s high jewellery flower gems....
...Josephine Ryan’s vast and beguiling antiques shop, set over three floors of a huge Georgian house in the Cotswolds town of Tetbury, feels more like a home than a traditional retail space....
...When Empress Joséphine bought the Château de Malmaison outside Paris in 1799 she set about collecting every available cultivar....
...Named for her daughter and her favourite winter flower, this lightweight mule is made to gently hold the foot without too much click-clacking. It’s about as orthopedically comfy as possible....
...Her flowers and ruffles and bulbous coats in velvet, hung with passementerie fringe, were modern-day reflections of Lacroix’s love for intricate detail....
...Stop at Josephine, a bakery named after Josephine Baker in Rue Jacob on the way home, for a pain au chocolat. 4....
...The peer had struggled with grief since the death of his wife, the novelist Josephine Hart, a decade ago....
...Since 2001, Sykes has collected organic material, flowers, gorse or bird’s nests, which she sets in resin to make furniture....
...Since 1835, his lover had been Joséphine de Forget, niece, no less, of Napoléon’s empress Josephine. Flowers were not an escape for him from failed political ideals....
...It was where Napoleon married Josephine in 1796. The food at business lunches was almost absurd; truffle sandwich starters, langoustine-stuffed ravioli, sablé biscuits with coffee....
...To February 12 2017, whitney.org Photograph: Heirs of Josephine N Hopper...
...Then it shifted again, Josephine Baker meets Brancusi, and an emphasis on evening glamour: skirts were strewn with huge white paillettes, coats encrusted with sequinned flowers....
...The original was commissioned by the “bachelor duke” from a young English designer who had laid out a similar design at Malmaison near Paris, home of Napoleon’s Empress Joséphine....
...The lily was the symbol of the French monarchy, and the jewellery house created versions for both Marie Antoinette and its post-revolution client Empress Joséphine: one precious lily tiara boasts 35 diamond...
...Nonetheless, rose lovers and historians of flowers will find plenty in it despite the plaster drama....
...Many of them had followed instructions to bring, inter alia, unwanted books, a gift for a stranger and flowers for “Mistress Josephine”....
...Laurence Graff bought the entire first tender, and, with typical audacity, set them all into one flower brooch, which he sold immediately to the Sultan of Brunei....
...than a hundred years: of a gift to Queen Victoria of a pair of spider silk bloomers hailing from Madagascar; of how a delicate yet spectacularly strong yarn found its way into stockings made for Empress Josephine...
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