Hints and tips:
...I’ve often steered friends and visitors to its gloriously un-chic bar for the Taylor-and-Burton patina it gives. But the 75 rooms were always a bit too tired to warrant recommendation....
...No one is in any hurry to explain, certainly not the presiding matriarch (Amanda Burton), whose every utterance is an equivocating barb....
...There is no novel like Toni Morrison’s Beloved or Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes or Edward P Jones’ The Known World....
...The designers have included Thom Browne, Carolina Herrera, Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen and Valentino....
...He might have worked similar wonders with Lawrence of Arabia, a role for which he was director David Lean’s first choice before Finney bowed out, disliking the contract ties he would have to sign, and left...
...Founder, Tech City Labs Piers Wombell CEO, Ekioh Marc Bradshaw Director, BEA Solutions Simon Hay Founder, Firefly learning Carl Michel Chair, Firedrop.ai Abbie Pugh Partner, Multiple Theresa Burton...
...“This is where I did my first McQueen show 20 years ago,” she explained of the Lawrence Hall show space in Belgravia....
...“Against the marble, it looks incredible,” says curator Lawrence Van Hagen....
...The British house Alexander McQueen usually shows in Paris but, owing to designer Sarah Burton’s imminent due date (she’s expecting her second child in two weeks), the label relocated to London’s Lawrence...
...“It’s a big shock,” said Matt Burton, chief executive of Orchard, a New York-based analytics firm. “Renaud is one of the faces of the industry, one of the first people to build this business.”...
...“It is a good day for Lending Club,” said Lawrence Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary who sits on the company’s board and whose 1m shares are now worth almost $25m....
...Matt Burton, who is working to develop a secondary trading market for P2P loans called Orchard, said that the Lending Club IPO was a milestone for the industry....
...The company attracted Wall Street names including Lawrence Summers, former US Treasury secretary, and John Mack, former Morgan Stanley chief, as board members and investors....
...It is 50 years, too, since the Taylor/Burton Cleopatra broke the record for movie budgets. And (ssshhh) since the birth of Brad Pitt. Enough of looking back....
...Her take on evening dressing – relaxed but still overtly glamorous – has put the spotlight on designers such as Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen and Jenny Packham....
...Highlights include Emily Berry and Marianne Burton, as well as the long established yet still innovative Simon Armitage and Hugo Williams....
...Life, Lawrence Durrell used to say, was too important not to be taken lightly, and this week, during the Milan men’s wear shows, designers took this aphorism to heart and applied it to fashion....
...TE Lawrence in a djellaba would not look stupid, whereas Tommy Cooper in a fez would....
...Lawrence Tomlinson, a champion race-car driver, runs LNT Group, one of Yorkshire’s fastest-growing enterprises – a mini-conglomerate that spans care homes, cars and chemicals....
...Here is yet another actor from Wales, like Burton, who should never have let the theatre lose him to the cinema. Come back, Sir Anthony, all is forgiven. (Except possibly this movie.)...
...The leading New York-based collector Lawrence R Stack – who recently departed the family numismatic firm co-founded by his grandfather during the 1930s – only began buying renaissance medals some five years...
...An early triumph in the mid-1980s was cold-calling the collectors Burton and Emily Tremaine and persuading them to sell their Mondrian, “Victory Boogie-Woogie”, to Condé Nast publisher Si Newhouse for $12m...
...“Oversized products for the home are going to be massive in 2010,” says Jade Lawrence, marketing manager at contemporary furniture design company Arredo....
...FerroChina’s sudden debt disclosure “caught us and the market by complete surprise, given that recent meetings with FerroChina yielded no inklings of such problems,” Lawrence Lye, an analyst at CIMB-GK,...
...Lawrence Summers, the former US Treasury secretary, recognised that sovereign wealth funds had so far proved model investors but was baffled why, if they intended to continue to behave well, there was reluctance...
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