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...At The Newt in Somerset, it took a year to complete the intricate inlaid floors of a facsimile Roman villa — one of the hotel’s more unusual guest attractions....
...However, Rogoff et al argue that while the patterns in short-term rates are noisy, if you look at long-term real rates (that is, nominal rates adjusted for inflation) there is a clear and striking trend....
...In that moment he realised he wanted to be a designer. At Salone 2024 Controvento will also present new designs for Fendi Casa....
...One of the most viral moments of the night involved no clothes at all....
...It isn’t about going to the newest restaurants and stores, but the right ones.”...
...The design of the pedestals nods to the boxes and trolleys that are used by the museum to transport objects from one place to another....
...It’s simply been refreshed and refashioned as “activations”, “culinary moments” and “food stations”....
...In 2022, McKillen was awarded L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for his contribution to the country’s culture....
...Well, yes . . . but it has taken until the current moment in time for the outperformance to be sizeable, carrying a whiff more of lucky macro break than reliable strategy....
...Perhaps this is part of the evolution: these clothes are miles away from the attention-grabbing ones he usually designs and wears himself — broad-shouldered blazers studded with gold buttons, kicked-out...
...“The jewellery pieces all have that sense of time and erosion, but I started to think, ‘What might this one have looked like? Or what if that one had been encrusted with diamonds?’”...
...We’re still living in interesting times. One good read American big-box store sells lots and lots of small bits of metal....
...Malaysia is at “a very critical moment, a departure from our history,” he says, while looking across one of Penang’s factory floors....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...exhibited globally, including at the V&A in London, and architecture biennials in Sharjah (2013), Venice (2010, 2016) and Chicago (2017)....
...He went first to Toronto, aged 17, to embrace the New Romantic era, and then in 1983 to Cordwainers Technical College in London to study shoe design....
...And the centre coffee table is a mock-up of one of my designs – a scaled-down model of a dining table. The first work of art that spoke to me was The Acrobat by Picasso....
...“[The buildings] are also symbols of a particular time, these colonial people coming in and lording over them....
...“The irony of being in the Financial Times is that I don’t really have finances as such,” he smiles....
...What about how concentrated the stock market gains are with Nvidia, Microsoft, Google et al? I mean, shouldn’t that weigh against this rally? What about that? Katie MartinMaybe yes....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Michela Tindera I’m Michela Tindera from the Financial Times. Today on Behind the Money, OpenAI is one of the fastest-growing companies ever....
...and in some cases actually has outright laws, which we may learn about in future episodes against the use of things like computers, bioengineering, et cetera....
...Macklin notes the recent surge in the country’s economy, one of the largest in the Asia-Pacific region after China, and a growing international interest in Indian art....
...At one point Taylor Swift was shown singing along heartily to “Fast Car”. These are the “I was there” moments that concerts have always strived to achieve....
...The context for that was the turmoil around Silicon Valley Bank, et al....
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