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...After its previous owner Pierre Cardin died in 2020, his great-nephew Rodrigo Basilicati-Cardin entrusted the lease to hospitality group Paris Society, whose founder Laurent de Gourcuff is known for reclaiming...
...Taiwanese entrepreneur Pierre Chen bought the painting for $90mn in 2018 — breaking the record for a living artist....
...It is also makes a perfect departure point if ever you wish to stroll between the fabric stores of Rubelli, Pierre Frey and Loro Piana Interiors, or the intimate shops and galleries of Rue Jacob, Rue de...
...The tenacious Italian banker slid into his “dream job” at Italy’s UniCredit just after its chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier quit in a heated clash with the bank’s board....
...Hains faces Los Angeles conceptualist Mark Bradford’s pulpy, disjointed “Constitution IV” of collaged citations of the US constitution layered with paint under thick resin....
...Its $832.5m total almost doubled that set by the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé sale at Christie’s Paris in 2009, but here perhaps other forces were at work, too....
...Seven decades ago, with Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain, he was one of the enfants terribles of postwar Paris fashion....
...’s Image No 3: Rondes de Printemps, which followed immediately afterwards....
...Since 1937, the collection has been based in the 13th arrondissement in south-east Paris, on the same site as the Manufacture des Gobelins, a workshop for tapestries and furniture founded by King Henry IV...
...In “Portrait de Pierre” (1909) Matisse painted his nine-year-old son in a conical orange hat unusually rapidly, with an economy of means — simplified frontal composition, facial features reduced to signs...
...Quatre siècles de papiers peints’ is at Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, until June 12; lesartsdecoratifs.fr/en...
...Dominic Grace, head of London residential development at Savills, says concierge services have become “de rigueur for top-end developments” in the past five years....
...At Christie’s evening sale, the star lot was a Goya portrait of an embroiderer to King Carlos IV of Spain, looking for £4m-£6m....
...“Head of Henry IV and Amor” is one of scores of copies made after Rubens’ “Henry IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de Medici”: the dynamic gestures and heightened expressiveness belong to the baroque – but...
...This year also saw the welcome return to the stoves of two mature chefs: Bruno Loubet at Bistrot Bruno Loubet in Clerkenwell and Pierre Koffmann at Koffmann’s in The Berkeley Hotel....
...The same officials are studying Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s will to see if anyone else can be found to pay for the 2012 Olympics....
...De Chardin might be characterised as a sort of Thomas Friedman for the religiously-inclined....
...Arts et techniques de la Mode) design school....
...furniture for maisons de la culture, or important government and ambassadorial properties....
...www.von-zezschwitz.de iv ‘Drunken Bricklayer’ vase Geoffrey Baxter Royal College of Art graduate Baxter (1922-1995) joined Whitefriars glassworks in 1954 and became one of the pioneers of post-war British...
...i LC2 Le Corbusier Studio Coded the LC2, this sofa, and its single- and three-seater alternatives, was conceived between 1928 and 1929 as a collaboration between Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre...
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