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...Left hand, little finger: Hermès silver H Ex Libris signet ring, £1,100....
...recyclable-PED Picto birdhouse, €69 Photographer’s assistants, Valentin Le Marc’h and Vincenzo Sassu. Digital operator, Manon Clavelier. Production, Alexandra Carney...
...Alumni who are now fine jewellers with internationally recognised brands include Alice Cicolini, Noor Fares, Capucine Huguet (Capucine H), and Fernando Jorge....
...Pearl Lam closed her H Queen’s gallery in 2020 and Ora-Ora moved to the revamped Tai Kwun Centre in 2021. International galleries David Zwirner and Pace remain in H Queen’s....
...His gowns and opera coats have rustled through galleries at the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery, where one could almost imagine the pearl- and brocade-bedecked duchesses looking on in envy from their...
...According to A History of Jewellery by Joan Evans, the king was fond of the use of initials in jewellery and owned a carcanet, as chokers were known in the Renaissance, with the initials H and K, for himself...
...So in March 1962 he jetted to 10 cities around the world in 16 days, stopping to source beautiful stones from dealers in India, Thailand and Hong Kong, and pearls in Japan....
...In today’s world, the idea that “it doesn’t matter whether a country makes computer chips or potato chips,” a quip attributed to Michael Boskin, an economic adviser to George H.W....
...We are familiar with images such as Nicholas Hilliard’s portraits of Elizabeth I, rendered icon-like and embroidered with hundreds of pearls (her gemstone of choice, for its implied chastity)....
...Geisha single malt Japanese whisky, £18,750, lymited.com Fendi silk and wool dress, POA Hermès steel Heure-H watch, £2,300 Vintage 18ct-gold and Japanese-coral ring, $7,000, 1stdibs.com Japan Best shower...
...Pearl Octopussy Founded in 2018 by Cathrine Børter, Oslo-based Pearl Octopussy turns pearls and crystals into sparkling jewellery inspired by the sea Pearl Octopussy is a rather curious name for a luxury...
...I found it inappropriate that the pearl of German industry, which is what Daimler-Benz was, would end up in Iranian hands,” Schmidt said....
...“If you become unisex, it puts restraints on creativity and that goes against diversity,” says Edouard Meylan, chief executive of the independent watch company H Moser & Cie....
...Textural contrast also comes from introducing materials such as pearls, as in Tasaki’s gritty Danger bracelet or the mother-of-pearl in Garrard’s Fanfare collection....
...The process is straightforward: I was fitted in a standard pair of H and H boxers (size medium, thanks very much for asking)....
...In the early 1990s when the mainland was beginning to experiment with listing its state-owned enterprises in Hong Kong’s H-share market, both Shenzhen and Shanghai were in their infancy as stock markets,...
...Like Pace, Pearl Lam also benefits from two sites — in H Queen’s and the similarly art-stuffed Pedder Building....
...The perfect illustration of this phenomenon is the new H Queen’s Building....
...Galleries including Pace and Pearl Lam open in H Queen’s — with Yoshitomo Nara and Arcangelo Sassolino respectively — while also maintaining spaces within spitting distance (Pace in the Entertainment Building...
...The show’s designs ping-ponged between the decades of Adele’s life, taking in her stage career era — with jazz-age sequins, pearl embellishments, floral brocades and polka-dot flapper tulles — and then marrying...
...Vandenberg had been a full-throated isolationist until Pearl Harbor in 1941....
...The shortlist exhibition pulled in some 7,000 people at H Queen’s, the city’s new art tower-block, before moving to Christie’s elegant Hong Kong offices....
...H Stern, yellow gold and diamond ring (1975) Ms Milner, 41, celebrated her birthday in 2015 wearing a vintage cocktail ring made by H Stern for a woman in São Paulo, Brazil, in the year of her birth....
...Mother-of-pearl dials come in blue, pink or white. £10,900 7....
...It’s one of my favourite places,” Pearl Lam tells me. Certainly the view from the 49th floor over Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour is spectacular....
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