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...“If they force me to come to the office every day, I don’t think I can continue to work there.” Tokyo’s iron-willed commuters are also returning — but not in the same numbers as before the pandemic....
...Most notably it all comes together in Joshua Reynolds’ magnificent 1776 portrait of Mai, recently acquired jointly with the J Paul Getty Museum for £50mn....
...“I meet so many guys who think suits are for work, but I don’t design work suits,” the 37-year-old says....
...I would take a piece with me and I would sit on her bed, give her some morphine, we would chat, I would sew, she would help me title a piece, she would iron it for me.”...
...Additional reporting by Joshua Oliver, Eva Szalay and Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Daria Mosolova and Camilla Bell-Davies...
...Which is your favourite work by Picasso? Email me: harriet.agnew@ft.com...
...Is it going to work? The acquisition is quite expensive for what it is. Markets don’t believe the targets they’ve set.”...
...The potential implications are huge, report my colleagues Laurence Fletcher and Joshua Oliver in this must-read investigation....
...Futures prices for steelmaking ingredient iron ore fell 7 per cent on the news....
...She slumped on the steps along a wrought-iron fence, still 20 paces from her destination. She had tried to vote by mail, she explained: “Somehow, some way, it didn’t work out for me.”...
...Not all big lenders are as keen, as this analysis of banks’ back-to-work plans by the FT’s Joshua Franklin, Owen Walker and Joe Rennison shows....
...“We expect all of our employees for work as normal over this period and will be monitoring attendance levels closely....
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...“I don’t think the time is ever wrong to do a greatcoat,” avers its CEO James Eden, who has chosen a blastproof 850g wool from Joshua Ellis for the unlined greatcoat he launched at Pitti last month....
...“Great architecture, great cast-iron buildings, great cobblestones. And that’s where the action is right now.”...
...Two weeks ago it reached an agreement with the iron workers, an event that may have weakened Mr LaBarbera’s bargaining position....
...them to be cyanotype photograms: photographs made not by using a camera but by arranging objects — in this case, a sinuous specimen of seaweed and a handful of peacock feathers — on paper sensitised with iron...
...About to show me round the installation of his Royal Academy show (itself a massive engineering manoeuvre) Antony Gormley worries out loud that visitors might miss the first item: his “Iron Baby” (1999)....
...“The iron worker on the project is not living as well as the executive who thinks he’s too expensive,” says Prof Freeman. The bigger cost, say developers, is not pay but union work rules....
...Patum Peperium, £2.99; Perrier-Jouët, £43.99; waitrose.com The books on my bedside table are Chalk, by Joshua Rivkin, a poet’s take on artist Cy Twombly’s life and work, and Less by Andrew Sean Greer, which...
...At the other extreme is James, a forty-something wine dealer who gets up, irons a shirt, and sits at his desk in crisp chinos and car shoes....
...“Some of the work up there staggers me,” said David Medlock, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who once sat on the university council. “It’s groundbreaking.”...
...The work it takes to control the car, through manipulations of brake and chassis, makes his upper body spasm. At the end, medics have to prise the gloves off his rigid hands....
...Employers used reliably high interest rates available from bonds to offer cast-iron pension guarantees....
...Further along the pavement, “missing” posters were taped to an iron railing beside notices for a summer barbecue....
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