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...He founded ShowStudio with Nick Knight in 2000 and also worked with Nicholas Serota at the Whitechapel Gallery....
...On the ground floor is the restaurant, and above it a wine-focused private members’ club founded by, inter alia, Frédéric Engerer, the president of Château Latour, which is in turn owned by François Pinault...
...Yet, as the late Nicholas Berry put it: “These were the ‘fake owners’, not the real ones of the past. The fake owners were interested in the share price....
...Nicholas Berry Stancroft Trust, London EC4, UK...
...Letter in response to this article: How ‘fake owners’ persuaded Pearson to part with prize assets / From Nicholas Berry...
...As an aspiring restaurateur, I once made the pilgrimage to eat chez Girardet and the memory of our dinner still lingered on, as did the sight of a half-finished bottle of Château Latour left behind at the...
...“People have heard of Porsche and Rolls-Royce and they’ve heard of Latour and Lafite.”...
...A great, great grandfather built the Moscow-St Petersburg railway line for Tsar Nicholas II. His father made the weighing scales used by Marie Curie in her researches into radioactivity....
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