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...None more so than the venerable De L’Europe, which has stood at the confluence of the Amstel river and two canals since 1896 and is just completing a five-year renovation....
...Before I experienced Barkley L Hendricks’ revelatory retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008, I had never seen more than a couple of his works at a time....
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...Sensata will appoint Phillip Eyler to its board of directors. Sensata chief Jeff Cote also announced his retirement and a search is under way for his replacement....
...These shapes have many facets to play with, and everyone from the Lebanese L’Atelier Nawbar to William Welstead, Alice Cicolini to Gucci, has been seduced....
...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Those first to sign up included some of the biggest names in the business — Richard Green, Ronald Phillips, Koopman, SJ Phillips and Wartski — as does the selection committee....
...Incumbent presidents, you know, Joe Biden didn’t show up in New Hampshire even though he was running against Dean Phillips, right? So is it different than any that any primary we’ve seen before? Yes....
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...Although I wasn’t persuaded by trompe l’oeil trousers painted to look like jeans, because ultimately, they still look like unflattering “dad denim”....
...Walden Macht & HaranO: 6; L: 8; I: 7; Total: 21The firm represented Ronald Streck, a whistleblower against pharmaceutical group Eli Lilly, in a series of successful False Claims Act lawsuits....
...Ronald Reagan quipped there was nothing scarier than the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...L-I-B-O-R. Harriet Clarfelt As the acronym kind of suggests, it started off in the UK. So it started the 1980s with the British Bankers’ Association....
...Denise L Ramos, a director on its sustainability committee, has a surprising side gig: chair of the public policy and sustainability committee at Texan oil refiner Phillips 66....
...Phillip Hennche, the brand’s director of channel innovation, says the partnership generated “huge” interest....
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...A Hard Rock International hotel joined Times Square earlier this month while developer L&L Holding and its partners are on track next year to open a $2.5bn tower with a luxury hotel, theatre and sprawling...
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...varied art-dealing career to the restitution of Nazi-looted art and is said to have been instrumental in brokering the sale of Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” (1903-07) to the billionaire Ronald...
...Alexandre Ghotbi, head of watches at Phillips for continental Europe and the Middle East, suggests service watches are largely a “thing of the past”....
...On May 18, Phillips hit its highest ever sale total of $192mn ($225mn with fees)....
...“There are no equivalent 100 per cent mortgages in the standard market,” says David Hollingworth of UK mortgage broker L&C....
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