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...The director of the Henry Moore Foundation is showing me around a small, low-ceilinged study in Hoglands, a modest farmhouse in the hamlet of Perry Green, Hertfordshire....
...At €10bn, it would have an enterprise value-to-ebitda multiple far below rivals such as L’Oréal. In the battle for Chinese ecommerce, Alibaba is struggling to knock Temu from the top spot....
...It recalls the previous two records from the west African supergroup which were produced by Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, best known for his work with Kinshasa noise band Mbongwana Star....
...Omega by Andrew Grima limited-edition c1970s gold and faceted-quartz-crystal Teak wristwatch, from the Jeux d’Or collection, POA, somlo.com Model, Robert Perry Smith at Chapter....
...Argylle himself is an international smoothie and master spy, played by Henry Cavill with a bog-brush haircut and a Roger Moore smirk....
...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...
...An avuncular, grey-bearded presence behind a pair of decks, Bovell introduced Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo, then a protégée, L Dot, an attitudinal teenage rapper....
...jumper, €110 Private White VC Ventile cotton Harrington 3.0 jacket, £595 Michael Kors metal-frame Pierce sunglasses, £170 Luca Faloni leather bag, £725 Crockett & Jones suede Chelsea 5 boots, £470 L’...
...Inspired by the 18th-century bronze and ceramic candelabras flanking the hall’s entrance, the works have tentacle-like forms in green, pink and yellow hues that reflect the colour palette of the trompe l’...
...Rep Earl L Carter You know about the milk crate. You know about the blackout challenge. You know about the NyQuil chicken challenge....
...It’s as if Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti have collaborated on dinner....
...Carlyle recently beat out HarbourView and Blackstone’s Hipgnosis for Katy Perry’s catalogue with a bid for $225mn, according to several people familiar with the auction....
...British tennis player Fred Perry, who won Wimbledon three times, launched his version in 1952 with a laurel wreath as its signifier....
...L’Oréal purchased Aesop from Brazilian conglomerate Natura for $2.5bn last year, in a record deal that makes it the French beauty company’s highest-value acquisition to date....
...Emma Jacobs pays wonderful tribute to Matthew Perry and the way he made Chandler’s jobs (nonsensical, well paid and with no purpose — pure Gen X) into one of the best things about Friends....
...With ninth album Trustfall, the 43-year-old singer-songwriter and occasional aerial acrobat, real name Alecia Moore, is looking to seal her heritage-act status (there’s no denying her influence on younger...
...The dish of apples — mela — is close to melos (melody), the trompe l’oeil fly — musca — alights on another score, musica....
...“Prudential is focused on Asia and L&G is a social investor. What’s your one-sentence mission statement?” I asked, expecting a slick response. The man coughed. He took a drink of water....
...Company insider Daniel Moore will step in as interim finance head. Abrdn has named Jason Windsor as its new finance chief and an executive director. He was previously CFO of Aviva....
...Four have adopted pro-ESG laws, according to the K&L Gates law firm....
...Küfer joined Disguise in 2015, having previously worked in financial roles at companies including Lidl, L’Oréal, Ultra Motor and A2B Bikes....
...For the exhibition finale, I would have preferred a reimagining of the more theatrical “L’Atteso” (2018), for which he filled Turin’s OGR arts centre with abandoned cars and vans....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...When Christie’s offered the 3m-high bird-esque fountain L’Oiseau Amoureux in its 2020 selling exhibition of outdoor sculpture, it “sold in excess of $600,000 from its former home on the edge of Lake Geneva...
...Despite cast illness, the opening night, in true Baldwin spirit, went ahead with two fine understudies (Joe Sproulle and Perry Moore) stepping up to the job....
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