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...Smart reads Vanity affair The only way to explain Telegraph Media Group’s £600mn price tag now that it has been forced into receivership is the British group’s ego, Reuters’ Breakingviews argues....
...The butterfly motif bracelet is topped with Moussaieff’s exceptional 35.4ct marquise brown diamond, alongside a pair of old-cut, trapezoid diamonds, each more than five carats, set on the butterfly’s wing...
...Sotheby’s two sales on June 29 came in below estimates, to make a combined £125mn (£150mn with fees), but they fielded the highest price of the season: Francis Bacon’s guaranteed “Study for Portrait of Lucian...
...Its newest high jewellery collaboration is with Stephen Webster, a designer who has created a $145,000 collar that features marquise cut peridots....
...The round brilliant remained largely unchallenged until the turn of this century, when price wars caused by the emergence of online-only diamantaires offering rock-bottom prices forced innovation....
...Graff has used 648 marquise-cut and pear-shaped diamonds, and 105 emeralds, rubies and sapphires in the butterfly wings....
...Mr Bennett’s favourite lot is another coloured gemstone, with an estimated worth of up to $2.75m: a 20.80-carat marquise-shaped fancy vivid yellow diamond ring cut in around 1910, claw-set between diamond-embellished...
...“The down side is that, when they no longer want a particular stone, its price can drop significantly.”...
...The house became a meeting place for visitors to the island such as the British writer Norman Douglas and the extravagant Italian marquise Luisa Casati Stampa....
...enabling manufacturers to map rough diamonds and assess their polished potential within minutes, giving them the capability to make decisions faster and sell the stones on more quickly for the best possible price...
...The asking price is €4.5m. The castles in Danneau’s portfolio cover a wide price range. The least expensive, an 11th-century village fortress renovated in contemporary style, costs €1.43m....
...Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution By Caroline Moorehead Chatto and Windus £20, 486 pages FT Bookshop price: £16 Lucie Dillon, later marquise de la Tour du Pin...
...Silvers and Barbara Epstein NYRB 316 pages, ₤14.99 FT bookshop price: ₤11.99 When Arthur Met Maggie by Patrick Hannan Seren 196 pages, ₤9.99 FT bookshop price: ₤7.99...
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