Hints and tips:
...This year’s big crowd-pleaser, in the airy Palais de l’Archevêché, is a retrospective of the great American colourist Saul Leiter....
...Others found that it spoke like an English tourist in Marbella: “Muchas gracias for your understanding, y I’ll ensure we’re being as crystal-clear como l’eau from now on.”...
...Consider a marble-topped table with serried ranks of mixer cans, bottles and glasses à la David Hicks, or a bar cart or butler’s tray, which takes up barely any room at all....
...Try to do too much here and you just consolidate the mess, so architect Joshua Ramus and his office REX have done just enough: a building that seems relaxed about its form and resistant to the varying scales...
...There can’t be that much further to go before people start hiring butlers. “I’m just off to the high street. Does Madam want anything from L’Occitane?”...
...Book UK Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for March UK, house price index update for March Results: Tesla Q1, IBM Q1, Morgan Stanley Q1, Equifax Q1, Heineken NV Q1, Just Eat Q1, Las Vegas Sands Corp Q1, L’...
...Others with deep pockets will get their chance this month when Trinity, a 67mn-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, goes on sale at Koller Auctions....
...Wheeler’s interest was further piqued when he saw that DFA was run by two protégés of Fama — David Booth and Rex Sinquefield....
...That’s F-L-I-C. For more information about your rights as a tenant, do check out the Generation Rent website. Jason Butler is on Instagram and Twitter. He’s @jbthewealthman. Timi is @mrmoneyjar....
...Captained by head butler Jean-Baptiste Crabit, an earnest blue-eyed Frenchman, the team offers much more than unparalleled room service to guests....
...Tucked in the basement of the Grand Rex, an extravagant Art Deco movie theatre, the Rex is a tad grungy. The bar is sticky. It gets absurdly hot in there....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would be a butler. It would give me huge satisfaction to run a great house....
...Our butler, Rudolfo, unpacked our crumpled clothes then slid our luggage under the super-king-size bed....
...“l get people who say to me, ‘I can’t have a jungle garden because my garden’s in deep shade’. To which I point out that jungle gardens are always in deep shade, that’s the nature of what they are.”...
...Or, until recently, Knightsbridge, where a tangle of steel L-beams poked out from behind a funereal black hoarding wrapped around an entire city block beside Harvey Nichols....
...Ed was sceptical: but mid-conversation a butler announced the arrival of Black. “Let Leon wait,” Epstein said....
...The butler was lazy. He just threw away the wooden cases, put the bottles on a shelf and never moved them, so the labels at the front were much more soiled than the ones at the back....
...As befits an ex-director of the London School of Economics, he demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of recessions, be they “U-shaped or L-shaped or, er, some other letter”....
...So I think what we’re doing is more important than ever,” said Simon Butler, director of Migrate Art....
...Santa Barbara County£44.40 james@tigervines.com Matthiasson, Matthiasson Vineyard Ribolla Gialla 2017 Napa Valley$45-$54 various US retailers REDS Mountain Tides Petite Sirah 2018 California$19.99 K & L£22.95...
...“Our job is in no sense to try and throw people out,” says Dave Butler, chief executive of the UK Apartment Association, an industry group. “Voids are the absolute last thing we want.”...
...oeil murals by Rex Whistler....
...A huge and squishy L-shaped sofa is a good idea in a room intended for group enjoyment....
...Oregon’s public pension fund has named Rex Kim, a former consultant with Multnomah Group, as its chief investment officer....
...The house has an L-shaped layout of 9,515sq ft, and is priced at $9.75m through Sotheby’s International Realty....
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