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...Who outside central Europe knows the first world war battles of Przemyśl, Lemberg (now L’viv) or the dozen or so on the Isonzo river?...
...Asked how APC’s relationship with L Catterton is developing, Touitou describes it as “fruitful”....
...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’...
...Buy a case and save some for a while.£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....
...Margaret Thatcher 2. Winston Churchill (while his full name does not have two “t”s, his last name does) 3. Tony Blair 4....
...In past years, Jaeger-LeCoultre has sparked interest in Atmos via cross-disciplinary collaborations with Hermès and the designer Marc Newson....
...The hotel had arranged for guide Margaret Raneri to take us around the amphitheatre, and she was full of entertaining stories about the site....
...Both Princess Margaret, modelling a plastic bonnet at the Equestrian Games in Stockholm in June 1956, and Vogue’s cover in August 1962 featuring a model in a high-fashion bonnet, showed they were a fashion...
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
...Margaret Howell cotton shirt, £395. Paul Smith cotton trousers, £260. Birkenstock suede leather mules, £120. Falke wool socks, £20. Bennett Winch leather Weekender bag, £1,450....
...Then came the Margaret Thatcher era. A wave of privatisations, strikes and recessions, depicted in the 1997 film The Full Monty, ensued....
...One omission, however, had to be Chanel’s Camélia secret cuff watch, which would have performed spectacularly with Margaret Qualley’s Chanel ensemble. Another time, another place, perhaps....
...While Jaeger-LeCoultre developed what it first called “crystal gongs” in 2005, Scheufele recalls that standard metal gongs were soldered to the surface of the crystal, rather than being milled from one piece...
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...Peter L Jaeger Tokyo, Japan...
...He decorated an apartment in Place Saint-Sulpice in Paris as an homage to the 1924 Marcel L’Herbier film L’Inhumaine, with its sets designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens and Fernand Léger, furniture by Pierre...
...She describes herself as “two-thirds [Angela] Merkel and one-third [Margaret] Thatcher” and says she gets things done. “My opponents call me the Iron Lady,” she told the Financial Times this year....
...Letter in response to this article: A token appreciation of the New York City subway / From Peter L Jaeger, Tokyo, Japan...
...l fully support the argument made by Ciaran Cuffe (Letters, November 21) that living above the shop would restore soul to neighbourhoods....
...Letter in response to this article: Why Reddit attracts those who love to trade / From Peter L Jaeger, Tokyo, Japan...
...The 2020s will be the decade when the maxim from Alexis de Tocqueville, writing 165 years ago in L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution, rings true: “There is scarcely any public matter that does not arise from...
....£13 The Real Wine Co Dom de l’Idylle, Vieille Vigne 2019 Savoie 11.5%Light, fresh and just the right side of watery because there is so much delicate fruit, with a hint of alpine flowers....
...A photograph records the balding, reticent Magnani showing Princess Margaret, lively in polka dots, his Filippo Lippi “Madonna and Child”, with its ornamental trompe l’oeil marble effects....
...It also contains precious things from my own childhood bedroom – the carved wooden angels above her cot and a picture by Margaret Tarrant....
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