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...The plaster panelling in the salon, for example, is a trompe-l’oeil parchment, hand-patinated by a young Belgian artisan, Mathilde Van der Schueren....
...But Marlene Greenberg’s role as a Skechers employee is unclear (there is a LinkedIn page for a Marlene Greenberg based at Manhattan Beach who is described as a “shoe designer at Pages Plus”)....
...“In my defence,” he notes in his memoir L’Envers du décor, “nobody in government was interested in the subject.”...
...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...
...“John L” is about a charismatic preacher who falls victim to the frenzy into which he has whipped his followers....
...Marlène Schiappa is France’s secretary of state for gender equality and the fight against discrimination...
...In the intervening years, we have learnt much about the personal story behind P.L. Travers’ original children’s books....
...female writer contemporaries of similar lifestyle endured, and her influence on an early fan who longed for fame of her own, the adolescent Charlotte Bronte, is evident in her own greatest works: Jane Eyre...
...Charlotte Brontë got the inspiration for Jane Eyre while staying with a friend in Hathersage....
...The gender equality minister, Marlène Schiappa, has named and shamed a dozen companies that failed to disclose a gender equality strategy, as required by law....
...The midnight-blue train with its golden crest was waiting in a private platform at the Gare de l’Est, and it was late....
...It’s a bit Rochester and Jane Eyre, simplified for the sighs of the multiplex. (The boy got his injury after a motorbike accident.) But Claflin underplays skilfully....
...Marlene Dumas discusses portraiture on Saturday and, on Sunday, Cornelia Parker talks to Maria Balshaw, director of the Whitworth in Manchester....
...Analysis by Frank Packer of the BIS and Marlene Amstad of the Chinese University of Kong Kong, Shenzhen, demonstrates clearly that EMs tend to have lower ratings than developed economies despite being less...
...The season also includes another Donizetti, L’assedio di Calais, and Puccini’s La Bohème....
...harry.eyres@ft.com, @sloweyres...
...In Paris in 1927, she had the bright idea of knitting a trompe l’oeil pattern – a knotted bow – into the neckline of a humble sweater....
...harry.eyres@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/eyres...
...… Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought and Work, by Susan L Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£18.99/$27.95 Biographers have often highlighted Marlon Brando’s eccentricities....
...… The Medici Boy, by John L’Heureux, Astor & Blue, RRP£14.99/$24.95 A tremendous historical tale evoking the creative fervour of Renaissance Florence....
...From Mr Stanley L. Marek....
...Then I went to Vernon L. Davey Junior High School, then East Orange High School, then the Hartt School of Music where I gained a doctorate of musical education....
...Marlene Torreno, a 62-year-old retired nurse, who is waiting to have her hair done at a beauty salon in Diadema in the south of the city, says she always uses L’Oréal Paris Imédia hair dye....
...The US is basically trying to find any excuse possible to send Haitians back, any Haitian back, people who got here before and people who got here after the earthquake,” claims Haitian-America activist Marlene...
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