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...President François Mitterrand and his culture minister Jack Lang gave structured governmental support to fashion, furniture and graphic design. “It was the last decade of flamboyant happiness....
...The convoy has drawn supporting comments from Republican politicians such as Trump, senator Ted Cruz and Florida governor Ron DeSantis, as well as Tesla boss Elon Musk....
...Amid the ongoing Brexit debate (Report, January 27) and in light of this month’s upcoming report by Ron Kalifa, the fintech sector must come together to lead the UK’s economic recovery....
...Ron Wirahadiraksa, who joined cement group LafargeHolcim as chief finance office from Philips in December 2015, said on Monday he would leave the company to pursue other opportunities without specifying...
...Ron Kosterman, chair of Elsevier’s editorial board, who led the negotiations with Relx, said: “It has been a bit heavy handed and has left a bitter taste....
...“It is generally the case that zoos lose money on pandas,” says Ron Swaisgood, a panda expert at the San Diego Zoo who also chairs the IUCN’s giant panda expert team....
...Ron Kosterman, chairman of the magazine’s editorial board, said: “We have had it for 125 years now — and we don’t want to lose it....
...While the luxury goods mogul François Pinault’s art collection and taste is well known, thanks to his to Venetian museums La Dogana and the Palazzo Grassi, what his rival Bernard Arnault collects is far...
...One of my pupils on the advanced management programme was Arnaud Montebourg, the former French economy minister who was this year ousted from President François Hollande’s cabinet....
...Again, not a political appointment but François Hollande’s security guard was a key man in the president’s alleged nocturnal visits to his lover, an actor....
...And one of the very good things that Jack Lang [François Mitterrand’s charismatic minister of culture] did was to open up culture to everybody, and push contemporary art.”...
...The defining quotation of these 25 years was recorded by the journalist Ron Suskind from a “Bush aide” in 2004....
...Jean-Francois Decaux of JCDecaux, the French outdoor advertising group, has expressed his ambition to buy US outdoor assets from either Clear Channel or CBS should they come up for sale....
...With the party closing ranks behind François Hollande, Mr Strauss-Kahn’s former supporters are now backing away from him....
...But then decadent deco designer Armand-Albert Rateau, at five on the list, and kitsch-surreal husband and wife sculptor/designers Claude Lalanne and François-Xavier Lalanne, at six and seven, are hardly...
...Christie’s owner François Pinault, artist Jeff Koons and Louvre museum director Henri Loyrette were just a few of the art world movers and shakers who flew into Abu Dhabi this week for the launch of Abu...
...(The next tenant, the film director Ron Howard, found it while renovating a year later and sent it back to them, believing it had been accidentally forgotten)....
...Collectors: Karl Lagerfeld, Azzedine Alaia, Francois Pinault, Madonna. Modus operandi: “I’m a dreamer....
...Ron Machan, chief executive of BearingPoint China, describes the rapid growth in importance of these companies to his firm....
...Roset also shows me François Azambourg’s fibre-optic ambient light, which, with its many tiny, arcing, glowing filaments, looks like sparklers being waved in the dark....
...“Ron is a very testosterone-driven artist and making his work is pure art and hard labour,” says Marc Benda....
...Pierre Székely’s bulky onyx sculptures (generally semi-abstract representations of gods or people) and Francois Stahly’s dynamic pieces (often objects metamorphosing or in motion) also make an appearance...
...– and Cappellini – with Francois Azambourg’s Mr Bugatti chair that appears to have been crushed, fixed up and sprayed with car paint – pushing the same boundaries....
...“The US and Europe are no longer fated to act together on the very biggest issues,” says François Heisbourg of the Centre for Strategic Research in Paris....
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