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...Both works had previously sold through the London dealer Ivor Braka and came to auction with third-party guarantees....
...“I loved it, but it was quite plain, so I thought I could embellish a bit,” Al Shammari says....
...Besides its famous eponymous altarpiece, attributed to Jan van Eyck and his brother Hubert, there are artisans, antiques dealers, perfect dim cafés, lovely public gardens and MSK, the city’s museum of fine...
...In plain English: if US rates swing sharply, prepare for jolts. This week the doughty Financial Stability Board has also raised some red flags....
...Specialist dealer Sue Witts of Appleby Antiques considers these “the most rare and valuable – they’re so finely potted, they’re like little works of art”....
...Most of the houses appear plain and compact from outside. Yet there’s a world inside each....
...Finance ministers and bankers in other EU countries remembered Schäuble for his plain language....
...Her poem on the subject, “A Dog, A Horse, A Rat” was typically allusive in taking its title from a line in King Lear, but painfully plain in its monosyllabic verse....
...Consider searching for fireplaces at auction and via dealers of architectural salvage. There are many affordable places to investigate....
...An hour away from the medina of Marrakech and its throngs of tourists, plains of semi-desert stretch across the horizon....
...I have a selection of tablecloths: plain ones, striped ones, check ones, ones with small patterns and ones with big patterns....
...Set across two floors – one inhabited by a studio in the mansard-roofed attic – this 18th-century brown-brick terrace above a café is a Georgian gem hiding in plain sight....
...The past few years have taught us that it isn’t all plain sailing but the good news is that some people are learning how to take charge.”...
...The causes of these breakouts were different, but the key protagonists were all part of the shadow banking universe, and each had been a risk lying in plain sight....
...This does not make it a lawless market, but plain-old fraud is much harder to prove than securities fraud. Should that change? Marc Kirschner thinks so....
...Today, Felloni enjoys the contrast of a plain white T-shirt with, say, his 19th-century diamond tremblant anemone Vever brooch....
...Hara Hidenori is a Tokyo-based dealer in Ukiyo-e Japanese art. Leah Duffin is a retired murder detective with London’s Metropolitan Police....
...Wedged into a narrow coastal plain between the Mediterranean and the Ligurian Apennines, Genoa, like all good ports, is a dense layer cake of cultures, languages and influences....
...This would just be a plain old are people committing fraud on mopes? Ethan Wu Yeah....
...I’m a fan of her Leaning Chair, which can be upholstered either buttoned or plain, with turned or square tapering legs and brass castors....
...sales, a nominal measure of (mostly) goods spending, have shrunk in three of the four past reports: Behind the recent decline is consumers spending less at petrol stations, furniture depots, car parts dealers...
...Elizabethan wyverns, to Aitchison’s perfectly plain, bright-pink fireplace in South Kensington....
...We stayed at somewhere suitably spectacular: Beit Michael at Adrère Amellal, the inspired creation of a London art dealer....
...helped catapult the designer into fame’s mesospheric levels – or maybe, given his predilection for stiletto shapes, vertiginous heights and ultra-feminine (occasionally leaning to bondage) details, just plain...
...Plain, simple, useful, were his watchwords. A birch ply table (lot 202), based on a cardboard box, is a case in point. Conran once described it as “the best thing I’ve ever designed”....
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