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...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...Those textural, trompe-l’œil effects interrupt the slickness of photorealism. “These visual cues of entropy are a demarcation of time, or real life,” the artist says....
...Piled up in a Martini glass, these “peanut pearls” look at first to be monkey nuts. But appearances are deceptive....
...Chaumet gold and diamond L’Épi de Blé de Chaumet ring, £10,200. Saskia Diez sterling-silver Long Star earring, €105 for a pair Paul Smith silk shirt, £425, and matching silk tie, £110....
...A tank dress in putty-coloured sequins and baguette rhinestones presented a more wearable option for the Oscars, (perhaps minus the trompe l’oeil outline of boxer shorts)....
...L’Atelier Nawbar opened its second boutique, in Riyadh, in May....
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...Dries Van Noten silk-organza embellished bralette, £511, mytheresa.com Chanel wood-pearl and strass clutch, POA Soho Home oak Bead table lamp, £250 Klaylife clay-beaded Barrel table lamp pendant, A$828...
...the experience of each one, enclosing the viewer in the magic circle of a domestic world rooted in the real — opening from the crystalline panorama of Delft into light-flooded Dutch interiors, glistening pearls...
...harrods.com Pacific Compagnie brass-finish Full Moon lamp, €950 Pepe Albargues wool and wood Twin Moon chair, £3,650, pamono.co.uk Clio Peppiatt bead-embellished mesh Moon top, £350, selfridges.com L’...
...The Alps-inspired, tassel-style Fleuve De Glace pearl sautoir, for example, features detachable elements that enable the jewel to be worn in seven different ways, including two brooches, two bracelets and...
...Brown surely absorbed some of her taste for the morbid trompe l’oeil from Salvador Dalí, who liked to superimpose dewy female forms on ominous skulls....
...Although I wasn’t persuaded by trompe l’oeil trousers painted to look like jeans, because ultimately, they still look like unflattering “dad denim”....
...The best bit of advice I’ve ever received is “take the gravel in a shell and make a pearl”. I can’t remember where I heard it but I wrote it down and have it pinned in front of my desk....
...Some Britons have reacted with pearl-clutching horror. Understandably so. UK equities have de-rated sharply....
...Van der Velden’s designs come to life at an L-shaped bench, with the typical half-moon cut into it enabling the jeweller to work up close. A tool display board hangs above it....
...Simone Rocha wool shorts, £625 L’Objet gold-plated metal and amazonite cocktail forks, £140 for four Louis Vuitton cotton, viscose and metal-fibre dress, POA Sophie Bille Brahe gold and diamond Nuit...
..., painterly impressions and contemporary photography, alongside essays by Vatican historian and journalist Caroline Pigozzi, and Giovanni Maria Vian, former editor of the Vatican City State’s newspaper L’...
...“[L]eaving citizens to their own devices is not the way of the Chinese Communist party,” concludes Vines in Defying the Dragon....
...In De l’Esprit des Lois, published in 1748, he claimed: “The natural effect of commerce is to bring peace....
...Giovanni Raspini silver and pearl Anemone ring, £170....
...He took its heritage of tweed, fringing, camellias and pearls and — with a large dose of irreverence — reinvented it for the times....
...And although Morozov called them the “pearls of his painting gallery”, the stylised panorama of flimsy, raspberry-skinned nudes ensures that the decorative cycle, “L’Histoire de Psyche” — commissioned from...
..., written by Morris Pearl and Erica Payne....
...The piece I bought is a wall hanging that juxtaposes different textures in a patchwork style, interwoven with mother-of-pearl decorations....
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