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...“Previously, older borrowers may have used [mortgages] for home improvement, travel or to help a younger family member get on the property ladder,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C, a mortgage...
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...“We had a lot of good news in recent months, helped by falls in inflation,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...Opera now brings higher-value and more recognised artists to a more open-minded market and has recently appointed Isabelle de la Bruyère, a Christie’s long-timer, as its chief executive based in London....
...Modern Art’s 2,000 sq ft, second-floor space will be in a Haussmann-designed building on Place de l’Alma in the city’s central eighth arrondissement....
...Conductor and founder William Christie is generous to his instrumentalists, so organ, flute, horn and cello all get their moment in the spotlight....
...Christie’s had the healthiest auction of the season so far on November 9, when 61 pieces of mostly 20th-century art sold for a within-estimate $543.5mn ($640.8mn with fees)....
...He has produced films including Unthinkable starring Samuel L Jackson and The Baytown Outlaws starring Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria....
...The six ensuite cabins, staggered over two levels, evidence this beautifully, from custom Egyptian kilim carpets to the master suite’s trompe l’oeil landscape – made by Greek artist Athan Mytilinaios using...
...The setting, co-conceived by Tanowitz, Harriet Jung, Clifton Taylor and Reid Bartelme, features a circular plinth, an L-shaped catwalk and a long bench, all painted a dazzling swimming-pool blue....
...Christie’s Highlights from the oeuvre of Studio Ymer&Malta will be exhibited at the auctioneers on Avenue Matignon....
...“[A]lmost every legacy international news outlet said that because of our “#Bitcoin bet”, El Salvador was going to default on its debt by January 2023,” he lamented, claiming there were “[l]iterally, hundreds...
...His London-based architect son Ernst L Freud had prepared a spacious study cum sitting room for him....
...Hood for its foldaway bonnet-style hats (£49, l-hood.com)....
...A recent change in Greek laws that intended to constrain development across the country is also having an impact on Antiparos, says Athens-based architect Martha Giannakopoulou....
...Ostin’s works were topped by René Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951), which sold for $36.5mn ($42.3mn with fees, est $35mn-$55mn) while a second painting by Magritte in his collection, from 1949,...
...Martha Nussbaum explaining Aristotle. An American expat eating bánh cuon in Hanoi. A British expat eating prawn pad kaprao in Bangkok. Versions of L’Orfeo from the Barcelona and Zurich opera houses....
...The event will now be in the 18th-century L’hôtel de Maisons, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés....
...Designed by a local architect, the property’s single-storey L-shape borders a south-facing garden....
...Christie’s will offer works by Paul Gauguin and Joan Mitchell as part of a $50mn collection consigned by Roger Sant, founder of the US energy company AES Corporation....
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...Who Luxury Portfolio International, William Raveis Martha’s Vineyard, $28.5mn Where Overlooking Lambert’s Cove Beach on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, to the south of Cape Cod....
...For me it was an arson attack at Gare de l’Est. No one was injured, but the fire destroyed about 50 cables, disrupting services....
...Christie’s has secured Yves Klein’s three-metre-wide “Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue, (ANT 124)” (1960), which it will offer for about £24mn on June 28....
...Agatha Christie gave her famous detective one. Salvador Dalí once claimed his was “the most serious part” of his personality....
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