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...François-Xavier’s works include a dove armchair and flower-bearing donkey. “For me, Les Lalanne are like the children of René Magritte,” says Jeanniard....
...Conceived by René Stapels and Pierre Dufau, its Corten-steel structure is arranged in the shape of a cross perched on a transparent base, and overlooks an ornamental pond and a beech forest....
...In February, Vodafone rejected an €11bn bid for its Italian business from French rival Iliad, owned by Xavier Niel....
...Or François Xavier Lalanne’s monumental Rhinocrétaire of 1991 (pictured) — his armoured copper rhinoceros that transforms into a writing desk....
...“Macron is capable of making young people dream,” telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel, who funded Station F, told me. “That changes the perception of a country.”...
...Several Dada and Surrealist works in the exhibition were made or conceived on Impasse Ronsin, including Claude Lalanne and her late husband François-Xavier’s “Mouton de Laine” (around 1965, by François-Xavier...
...And the best one I’ve received recently is a painting from the 1920s by René-George Gautier, for my 50th birthday....
...There he met René Burri, who had been working for Magnum since the late 1940s and knew O Cruzeiro. Larraín explained that he hoped to meet Cartier-Bresson, so Burri wrote a letter of introduction....
...Xavier Niel Enter Mr Niel, the bad boy of French business....
...The former Alstom Transport head has René Médori, finance director of De Beers’ top shareholder Anglo American, to show him his favourite watering holes....
...The man this reporter asked to talk to – but was not put through to – was René-Georges Querry, a well-connected former chief of the French anti-gang brigades and, as head of security for Accor Group, Mr...
...Lalique has followed with its own Black collection, including a recasting of René Lalique’s 1927 Bacchantes vase, as well as the Neolalique and Bucolique collections which tweak and update other art deco...
...Three of the subjects will be there: France's Jacques Delors, every eurocrat's hero, his octogenerian fellow countryman François-Xavier Ortoli and Italy's Romano Prodi....
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