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...Phillip Swagel, director of the Congressional Budget Office, said the mounting US fiscal burden was on an “unprecedented” trajectory, risking a crisis of the kind that sparked a run on the pound and the...
...Works for sale at Phillips include Newton’s fashion photographs, for which he was best known, such as “Saddle II, Paris” (1976), taken for Vogue Hommes (est £40,000-£60,000)....
...Totals at Sotheby’s and Christie’s came in at the low end of expectations, already revised down after a number of withdrawals, while Phillips’ slim sale of £10.9mn (£13.7mn with fees) on March 7 didn’t quite...
...I spent a long time looking at the famous portrait of Pope Julius II....
...Onboard, True North II’s purpose becomes obvious....
...She has already appeared with auction maestro Aurel Bacs in a film for the Phillips website, been interviewed in The New York Times and walked her first red carpet at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève...
...In 2022, The Arrival sold at Phillips auction house for £44,000, over an estimate of £22,000....
...Havana to London, this is probably one for Christmas 2023. davidofflondon.com Patek Philippe vintage 18ct-gold Byzantine coin cufflinks, $8,000Made with circa 425AD gold coins depicting Emperor Theodosius II...
...For decades it was of little interest beyond Cartier enthusiasts… until last year when a 1972 example fetched SFr403,200 (about £378,000), eight times its low estimate, at Phillips in Geneva....
...This year he was part of a three-way collaboration creating a limited edition for Zenith and Phillips’ watch department from 1950s Observatory calibres (on 5 November, the unique niobium-cased watch from...
...Even more remarkably, this price was not achieved at Phillips, nor Christie’s, nor Sotheby’s; nor even at Bonhams, Antiquorum or Dr Crott in Mannheim....
...A Savonnerie carpet commissioned by Louis XIV, a silver soup tureen that Catherine II gave to one of her lovers, a pair of candelabra that once belonged to Marie Antoinette – all are here....
...As recently as June, Phillips sold a regular production 5711 for $170,000 (about five times what the official retail had been). The situation is far from unique to Patek....
...In a further parallel, just as there was the famous orange-hand “Steve McQueen” Explorer II, so there was a Tudor Ranger II during the early ’70s that had an orange sweep-centre second hand....
...But I’m most excited about Nakhla, the standalone boutique of the eponymous jewellery brand, situated at the feet of the iconic statue of Rameses II....
...Over at Rolex, the left-handed GMT Master II (from £8,800) – inevitably given the soft-drink-inspired nickname the “Sprite”, thanks to its green and black bezel – may have been the star turn, but I was more...
...She graduated from Westminster in 2018, and since then has won the H&M Design Award in 2019, been a joint winner of the 2020 LVMH Prize and won the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design....
...As a soldier in the Royal Engineers, Laidley Nelson met Elizabeth II three times. The second time she recognised him. “She said, ‘Aren’t you that corporal?’ Her memory was fantastic....
...II” (1930) sold for $48mn ($51mn with fees, estimate $50mn). Mondrian’s previous auction high was a fee-inclusive $50.6mn....
...The following year, in November 1978, Schwartz was due to be in Rome to photograph the new pope, John Paul II....
...(One Nautilus will be available to the public, via a December 11 auction at Phillips to benefit environmental charity The Nature Conservancy.)...
...and contemporary art include a small Alberto Giacometti editioned bronze of his wife and model Annette, priced at €1.45mn (c1953-54, Kamel Mennour), Robert Motherwell’s France-appropriate “Je t’aime No II...
...The Bank Policy Institute said the stress tests were “much more severe than any post-World War II recession” while the Financial Services Forum said the results underscored “the strength and resiliency of...
...Youngsters who reached far beyond their presale estimates at Phillips included Anna Weyant, recently represented through her partner Larry Gagosian’s gallery; her “Buffet II” (2021), a contemporary take...
...one of the settling families of Jaipur, the “pink city” named after its terracotta-tinged walls and buildings, which was established in 1727 as the new capital of Rajasthan by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II...
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