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...For de Redé, entertaining was an art form that reached its apotheosis with his Oriental Ball....
...I was immediately intrigued: why wasn’t she as well known as other SOE heroines such as Violette Szabo or Odette Churchill?...
...Le Bristol in Paris, The Carlyle in New York and the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong have Jeeves-like overnight shoeshine services....
...“Italian hotel assets have always been attractive for investors and this year many family-owned businesses are struggling and can’t afford reopening,” said Marie-Louise Sciò chief executive of her family...
...The main studio itself, its floor covered asymmetrically by oriental rugs, is less surprising....
...“Our vision is to bring contemporary Chinese design to the world; to usher in a new era of oriental aesthetic and elegance though the lens of jewellery,” says Mr Chan....
...Marie Antoinette took music lessons in the salon that bears her name and was guillotined outside on the Place de la Concorde....
...The standout pieces are a vast leopard-print shearling coat (£8,838), an oriental jacquard minidress (£3,447) with a jellyfish motif and, as an alternative proposition to the now ubiquitous polo, a series...
...The beauty staple I’m never without is John-Marie Farina fragrance by Roger & Gallet....
...Figures in armour glimmer dimly — one oriental, one European? — inside the curtains....
...Daniel Levitin is a professor of psychology and behavioural neuroscience; Marie Kondo is a professional cleaner....
...They are admiring his iris Anne-Marie Cayeux....
...Jean-Marie Le Pen may still feel that way — though, evidently, his daughter does not....
...For example, my decorative style has developed through both the occidental and oriental perspectives, and much in the context of their histories which interweave and influence each other....
...He lived with his mother, his sister Marie and her philandering husband, the painter Ker-Xavier Roussel, who was also Vuillard’s best friend....
...She recently undertook a commission to paint 36 pieces for The Oriental restaurant on the P&O Superliner Azura. www.sarahcaswell.co.uk, average price £2,000 ………………………………………….....
...Such erotic, expressive distortions of the figure of Marie-Thérèse determined Bacon to become a painter....
...In London, Heston Blumenthal set the bar extremely high at the beginning of the year when he finally opened Dinner in the Mandarin Oriental, Knightsbridge....
...Exactly a year ago at Asiate, the swanky restaurant on the 35th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Manhattan, Liliane Bettencourt appeared with three youngish men and sat at the next door table....
...Another is the Mandarin Oriental’s restaurant in Manhattan overlooking Central Park and the New York skyline....
...One survivor, Odette Fabius, said Spoerry saved her life by hiding her for three months in a sick block....
...Sainte-Marie’s passion is education....
...My hunch is that Cronier used the name of the French palace ironically, but it would well have suited La Résidence, the 11-room boutique hotel where I spent two blissful days amid a decor Marie-Antoinette...
...The Miami furnishings, which were bought by Fort Lauderdale-based AMC Liquidators, featured oriental rugs, marble-topped tables and a tapestry of Louis XIV....
...’s reviews two banks in Uruguay for downgrade New York, May 26, 2009 — Moody’s Investors Service has placed on review for possible downgrade the local currency deposit ratings of Banco de la República Oriental...
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