Hints and tips:
...Blue bloods were not just born wealthy but got rich through takings, as in the case of Alan Rufus, a warrior kinsman of William the Conqueror who was rewarded with landholdings that may have yielded as much...
...It was “absurd” that the summit’s host Kenyan president William Ruto did not demand more payments from the Global North “for the years of devastation they have caused on our lands”, she added....
...During the V&A’s recent Gabrielle Chanel exhibition, London-based caterer Rocket organised a series of corporate events inspired by the show....
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...Williams-Sonoma, which sells high-end kitchen goods and high-ish-end home furnishings, more or less echoed that sentiment and emphasised its efforts to sell more value-priced items....
...Over the past three decades mom-and-pop vineyards have sprung up, giving it the feel of Napa or Sonoma back in the day....
...A rising rich middle class in India has developed a fresh interest in its heritage – “and they like to buy the best”, says Galloway. The only question is where to begin....
...Resource-rich Qatar and Saudi Arabia have also joined the party since John Malone’s Liberty Media bought F1 almost seven years ago in an $8bn deal....
...William Morris called it the “noblest of the weaving arts”....
...predominantly for his impasto-rich paintings....
...Sports retailer Dicks Sporting Goods and luxury homeware company Williams-Sonoma will report before the opening bell. Software group Intuit will report after the bell....
...In my fridge you’ll always find psilocybin chocolates, fresh berries and white wines from Scribe in Sonoma....
...The total net worth of individuals on the Hurun China Rich List, a separate gauge of the country’s richest people released on Tuesday, shrank by 18 per cent....
...Valley, designed to align the senses with the rich biodiversity of the region....
...It has allowed the Bodleian to hire a curator of photography for the very first time, who will be able to marshal a huge and disparate holding that ranges from William Henry Fox Talbot’s personal archive...
...“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few or freedom for a few,” wrote Morris (the slogan appears on a V&A tote bag, £10) yet he ended up “ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich...
...If the dividend is allowed and the deal does close, it will cap an extraordinarily rich investment for New York-based Cerberus, a low-profile private equity group founded by billionaire Stephen Feinberg....
...William Hurt had a dark-star twinkle and the looks of a preppy fallen on moments of self-doubt: blond, lean and broodingly handsome....
...IMG, the global talent, modelling, and sports agency, was acquired by William Morris in 2014 to form Endeavor, led by the Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel....
...“It has been pretty dramatic,” said Marco Ruijer, emerging markets portfolio manager at William Blair....
...The V&A in London is also in difficulties over treasures in its recent wonderful exhibition of Fabergé eggs, which ended some weeks ago....
...Shortly after Christmas 2014, Wilding incorporated a Maltese company to splash out on the quintessential rich person’s toy: a superyacht....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...Delysium / KUROSEMI INC. ??? Orderly ??? Sui Token Warrant ???...
...Industry executives say rising wealth among the rich, particularly in the US, has also stoked the private flying boom....
International Edition