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...Being included in the ground-floor jewellery section of London’s Dover Street Market is considered a big deal for a designer....
...The crusts are rich in precious metals such as platinum and molybdenum; the ores contain copper, gold and silver. All are sought-after commodities in electronics, construction and transportation....
...Platinum- and gold-seat holders are granted access to the exclusive Tanbark Club where cocktails flow pre-show, followed by dinner and an after-party....
...The interiors mirror Gainsbourg’s home – from the felt walls to the checkerboard Venetian floor tiles....
...The mint would buy platinum, make a beautiful platinum coin and then deposit it at the Federal Reserve for a massive profit....
...His rocket trip to stardom was fuelled by the commission for a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II for the cover of Tatler’s platinum jubilee issue....
...but the best place to view them is unquestionably the famous Rue de la Paix boutique in Paris, just reopened following a two-year renovation including a new, semi-circular five-storey atrium and a top-floor...
...Albums such as Goldie’s Timeless (1995) and LTJ Bukem’s Logical Progression (1996) enjoyed crossover success before Roni Size & Reprazent won the 1997 Mercury Music Prize and went platinum in the UK with...
...So it is that I find myself having excellent cups of tea 35 floors up The Shard, a slice of skyscraper that you can see from just about anywhere in town but which I’d never previously visited....
...Now that the promotions for the platinum jubilee have been taken down, work has started on a transformation of the way £17bn of food is sold each year in the UK....
...£50 per glass or £300 per bottle), from a special seasonal menu that’s served until the end of August, or share one of the venue’s famed plateau de fruits de mer for two (£100), adding lobster (£52) or Platinum...
...Gangs armed with AK-47s and high-calibre rifles sometimes attack facilities where precious metals, including gold and platinum, are smelted, Baxter says....
...Eschewing the glamour he’d lavished on his clients, his own property is more modern by far, in the International Style with four bedrooms, an open-plan ground floor and ribbon windows....
...Inside is a dizzying spectacle of arches, chandeliers and floor-to-ceiling frescoes, portraying Hindu divinities, maharajas and concubines....
...And he has written about it for the first time in The Queen: The Official Platinum Jubilee Pageant Commemorative Album (St James’s House)....
...I created a collection for her Platinum Jubilee called the Regalia Collection. I very much doubt that she ever saw it but she was an inspiration to me....
...furnishings, minimal cubes and curved stairs – Wickstead’s new store is what she describes as “handsome”, with ivory silk moiré walls, mahogany doors, rust-coloured carpet, polished chrome and checkerboard floors...
...bunting to mark her platinum jubilee....
...The walls of her office are lined with framed platinum discs and tour posters, which she observes a little dubiously when I peer at them....
...The CookFox studio, on the 17th floor of the old Fisk Tire Building, is a biophilic showroom....
...One floor below is the Earth’s Treasury gallery, which displays a stunning range of minerals, some as mundane as granite and sandstone, others more exotic, such as diamonds, platinum and the glittering metal...
...Even the cinema room on the first floor has an artistic accent – one of her father’s unused canvases is the screen onto which movies are projected....
...Sadly, though, all the side gates have been closed due to the pandemic, so we set off down Platinum Street instead. Platinum Street is definitely not an in-between place....
...The prevailing style is disco; not the cheerful 1970s variety, but filtered through sophisticated later iterations such as Daft Punk and Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor....
...Anglo American Platinum’s chief executive Chris Griffith, the company veteran regarded as a potential candidate for the top job at parent group Anglo American, is to step down after more than seven years...
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