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...Perhaps the defining image of alfresco dining is Édouard Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe”....
...After a six-month search, Hidalgo has just completed the purchase of a €1.9m four-bedroom duplex penthouse in the city’s central Dreta de l’Eixample neighbourhood, while Nath is still in the early stages...
...But, as H L Mencken is supposed to have said (though may not have done), “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”. This is a powerful example of that truth....
...Democracy and Globalization: Anger, Fear, and Hope, by Josep M Colomer and Ashley L Beale, Routledge, RRP£34.99, 172 pages This study of the relationship between democracy and globalisation argues that,...
...His L’Estaque viaducts, exhibited in 1908 and condemned by a critic as “bizarreries cubiques”, gave the movement its name....
...French cosmetics company L’Oréal this month unveiled its first vegan hair colour products, aimed at boosting its flagging professional haircare division....
...Spencer Hannah and his wife Diane moved from Manchester to Kendal 13 years ago after first buying a holiday home....
...Designed to be fully flexible, the brand’s necklaces, says Valérie Messika, creative director and chief executive, are “easier to wear and considerably more comfortable than a traditional large collier once...
...“It’s a magical medieval village in a beautiful setting,” says Simon Rogan, a Michelin-starred chef who runs three restaurants in Cartmel, including the celebrated L’Enclume....
...L’Oréal, the French cosmetics company, wants to increase sales 10-20 per cent annually in Africa. Procter & Gamble has opened a $27m soap factory outside Lagos....
...In a wide-ranging new monograph, L.S. Lowry: The Art and the Artist, T.G....
...A show from the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne draws attention to the threat hanging over the great Polaroid collection, which merits a separate article. All a bit breathless, but agreeably so....
...Maybe one should forgive the two Al(l)ans for these platitudes and conclude that the problem was as much with the question as the answer....
...In France, the chic, gamine flapper was called l’Américaine....
...‘Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group’, Abbot Hall, Kendal, UK From 1900 to 1905 Robert Bevan was England’s most avant-garde painter, and no one, except perhaps himself, knew it....
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