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...Absent a takeover bid, shifting the company’s listing, as suggested by activist Butler Hall, would be an uphill struggle....
...Transfer Market Natalie Robyn is stepping down as chief executive of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the governing body for Formula One and other motorsports, after just 18 months....
...My friend Patricia’s birthday parties were the best....
...The rest comes from visitors; fees, events and the support of many Friends worldwide (l.saintleger@vaux-le-vicomte.fr, for details)....
...One attendee, artist Patricia Mitchell, ended up using a malachite-effect backdrop for the paper sculpture she created for Chris Beardshaw’s award-winning Chelsea garden in May....
...It’s an all-suite property in which half-a-dozen sought-after designers (among them André Fu, Rémi Tessier and Patricia Urquiola) have each been assigned a floor or two to put their stamp on....
...David Webber, as the African-American butler Joseph, brings a meaningful edge to his politeness. Key to the whole affair is Hodge’s subtle and intricate performance as Fanny....
...There can’t be that much further to go before people start hiring butlers. “I’m just off to the high street. Does Madam want anything from L’Occitane?”...
...“I got lucky with this record [“Ghosts Again”] because Richard Butler [of The Psychedelic Furs] reached out to me and that worked out really well,” says Gore. “I asked if he had any lyrics....
...This week, the US electric-car maker roped in South Korean company L&F to contribute battery materials....
...And the exquisite trompe-l’oeil shell “mirrors” and decorative frescoes in the main hotel corridor are the work of François Roux, who restored the ceilings in Louboutin’s Lisbon house....
...That’s F-L-I-C. For more information about your rights as a tenant, do check out the Generation Rent website. Jason Butler is on Instagram and Twitter. He’s @jbthewealthman. Timi is @mrmoneyjar....
...In his studio, the bespeckled artist, who wears his streaked grey hair long, jumps from the long, stone-topped table, wanders over to a low-slung Patricia Urquiola for Moroso lounge chair, picks up a guitar...
...Renowned provocateur and author of The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith takes a drink from Wilcox with a frown....
...Captained by head butler Jean-Baptiste Crabit, an earnest blue-eyed Frenchman, the team offers much more than unparalleled room service to guests....
...A new venue belonging to the Academy of Fine Arts Florence is housed there, as well as LVMH’s IME (L’Institut des Métiers d’Excellence)....
...L’Eclisse (1962) Where to watch: Amazon Prime, iTunes and (US) The Criterion Channel Michelangelo Antonioni made a star of the city’s financial centre in the stylishly cynical love story L’Eclisse, set...
...The ever-inventful Moooi’s Lint carpet collection (from €2,330) is an in-your-face depiction of interweaved silk ribbons and, in the same vein, Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has produced the Patcha...
...suggests Patricia Astley, managing director at Julius Baer, a wealth manager....
...The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel, the French media watchdog, confirmed that it was approached by the broadcaster in December....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would be a butler. It would give me huge satisfaction to run a great house....
...Roughly equidistant between the Champs Elysées and the Pont de l’Alma, the hotel occupies a prized corner of Georges V with the Rue Pierre Charron....
...Our butler, Rudolfo, unpacked our crumpled clothes then slid our luggage under the super-king-size bed....
...Or, until recently, Knightsbridge, where a tangle of steel L-beams poked out from behind a funereal black hoarding wrapped around an entire city block beside Harvey Nichols....
...Phil Urban, chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers, one of the UK’s largest pub chains, said that bookings at the company’s Miller & Carter sites had “shot up” although the pubs were constrained by being...
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