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...Gems can be a bit much, but cufflinks are a perfect forum for semi-precious materials — malachite, turquoise, mother of pearl, and so on....
...Organised by Ukranian jewellery collective Strong & Precious, the sale includes a detachable pendant by Oberig, known for harnessing the “four sources of energy” (nature, kin, symbols and faith) to protect...
...“They’ve truly lost any naff association they used to have,” says Rachel Perry....
...played with the conceit of framing to highlight the natural beauty of stones and other precious materials....
...In praise of the long and luxurious sleep The irritating “smug sleeper” seems to be able to survive — thrive, even — on precious little sleep....
...speed since the beginning of this year to undermine the basis on which the Kumtor Mine has been operated and has refused to engage with us on any matters it considers to be the subject of dispute,” Scott Perry...
...“We’ve taken great pride in building a collection that’s not ‘safe’,” says Perry....
...Amazon’s Jeff Bezos left little doubt about how he votes on the engagement survey when he took to the stage with singers Katy Perry and Lil Nas X last week at a concert for employees, to celebrate July’s...
...The UK has nominated Claire Perry, former minister of energy and clean growth, as president of COP26....
...The saga of a record shop owner being beaten up for denying a customer access to Perry Como is among the most disturbing....
...A strong culture of credit risk management was matched by precious little culture of operational risk management....
...Taking the precious metalwork one step further is North Wales-based Junko Mori, who has become one of the UK’s leading artisans working in silver and steel, with work featured in numerous public collections...
...This year’s Royal Academy Summer Show, curated by Grayson Perry, has an entire Brexit Wall of work, including a piece by Banksy priced knowingly at £350m (the sum Vote Leave claimed the UK would be able...
...Perry Ellis International climbed 7.2 per cent to $25.18 after the apparel company lifted its full-year earnings outlook as it eclipsed sales expectations in its fiscal second quarter....
...All the great moments of British sporting success tend to have an evanescent quality, just like our heatwaves; it makes them all the more precious and memorable....
...She recalls the English artist Grayson Perry’s well-known assertion, “I can be outrageous because the vice squad is never going to raid a pottery exhibition.”...
...This had the immediate effect of the young contrarian thinking, “Well, conservatism suddenly looks radical” and going off and making “precious things”: a bronze Bible cover, a crown....
...Time after time, Miro’s artists have gone from being unknowns to celebrities: Chris Ofili, Grayson Perry, Peter Doig, Conrad Shawcross, Elmgreen & Dragset....
...In poems no less affecting for their accessibility, a heightened awareness of mortality hovers over reflections on how he has spent his life: time is precious when looking ahead; torturous looking back....
...Precious-metals stocks fell further than base-metals miners as the haven appeal of gold and silver related holdings faded after the US debt deal was reached....
...Free rein for Bernanke means more of the sort of ultra-loose monetary policy that many Republicans regard as unsound (Rick Perry, an earlier contender for the nomination, once described it as “treasonous...
...Perry agrees. ”The fundamentals are still in place for a positive gold price [this year] – this period of consolidation could just be a pause for breath.”...
...There was something de haut en bas about Federer’s tennis, as though he were a peculiarly precious artist....
...But a ratcheting up of rhetoric and aggressive action over territory in the South China Sea and East China Sea – some of it rich in fish stocks and energy reserves – have left Beijing with precious little...
...But the absolutist Silicon Valley line that its rights override Hollywood’s – “intellectual property is theft”, tweeted John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation – is wrong....
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