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...This may soon change, however, as Nick Phillips, chief executive of the Almshouse Association, says forthcoming guidance from Historic England “encourages flexibility” regarding historic almshouses to make...
...Before I experienced Barkley L Hendricks’ revelatory retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008, I had never seen more than a couple of his works at a time....
...advertising slogan delivered by celebrities such as Samuel L Jackson and Jennifer Garner, is the 12th-biggest US bank by assets....
...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...
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...Over the past year, John Aristotle Phillips and I have placed a lot of bets....
...These shapes have many facets to play with, and everyone from the Lebanese L’Atelier Nawbar to William Welstead, Alice Cicolini to Gucci, has been seduced....
...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...Old-school elegance on Rhode Island Gardiner House, in Newport, Rhode Island, is a passion project five years in the making by locals Howard Cushing and Wirt Blaffer....
...March 28 to June 30; further information and tickets here ‘Impressionisti: l’alba della modernità’ (Impressionists: The Dawn of Modernity), Museo della Fanteria In honour of the 150th anniversary of the...
...Its three big projects due for completion in the next few years lie off the coasts of New Jersey, Rhode Island and New York’s Long Island....
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...Michael works in finance and is on the board of the Rhode Island School of Design; Anne is an artist and academic who wrote an early textbook on digital art....
...But, instead of being awarded to the winner, the watch was sold by auction house Phillips, raising more than €1mn for the Prince’s Trust charity....
...The scoreline “love” is believed to come from the French word l’oeuf for egg, which resembles a zero....
...L-I-B-O-R. Harriet Clarfelt As the acronym kind of suggests, it started off in the UK. So it started the 1980s with the British Bankers’ Association....
...According to his notes, most meetings seem to start by someone saying how busy and tired they are: Henry Moore is “harassed”, Zandra Rhodes is “quite drowsy”, Rudolf Nureyev is “exhausted”....
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...Denise L Ramos, a director on its sustainability committee, has a surprising side gig: chair of the public policy and sustainability committee at Texan oil refiner Phillips 66....
...Phillip Hennche, the brand’s director of channel innovation, says the partnership generated “huge” interest....
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...A Hard Rock International hotel joined Times Square earlier this month while developer L&L Holding and its partners are on track next year to open a $2.5bn tower with a luxury hotel, theatre and sprawling...
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...A mahogany-lined screening room was also added on the uppermost level, while exterior walls were painted with period-specific hues from British company M&L Paints....
...Alexandre Ghotbi, head of watches at Phillips for continental Europe and the Middle East, suggests service watches are largely a “thing of the past”....
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