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...It was very Texan meets Marie Antoinette....
...Rococo fell sharply out of fashion, and the sisterhood associated with it — Rosalba, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Angelica Kauffman and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (who at 23 became the official painter for Marie...
...According to Marie Betteley, a jewellery historian, it includes the cream of 18th and 19th century royal jewels from across Europe....
...I’ve made sculptures out of butter, furniture out of bread and displayed radishes in jewellery cases as if they were rubies....
...That provenance, we were jokingly saying, “Is there a more grand provenance than Marie Antoinette? What about Cleopatra?”...
...It was quickly dubbed “Marie-Antoinette’s vagina”, though the term more commonly used was less decorous....
...When it came to entering the world of interiors, Atherton Hanbury enlisted the expertise of 20th-century antiques specialist Abel Sloane, who runs the London-based design studio 1934 with his partner Ruby...
...Mozambican rubies and Zambian emeralds, provided by ethical stone supplier Gemfields, have been photographed in extreme close-up....
...The contact sheets that appear at the Historical Society allow viewers to mingle with the drinking and dancing patrons of “Ruby’s Place,” intrude into a ramshackle dwelling called “Gerry’s Apartments,” and...
...The House of Garrard also outsources the stringing of beads including rubies, sapphires and emeralds....
...The next day guests will return by helicopter to the Hôtel de Crillon, to stay in the Marie-Antoinette suite where the French queen spent her early years....
...Among them are Indian jeweller Amrapali and French designers Valérie Messika and Marie Poniatowski, founder and creative director of Stone Paris....
...Donny & Marie are in concert over the road. Diana Ross is in town. We want to see Elvis Costello but our dates don’t coincide and, anyway, he has cancelled his run of shows at the Wynn....
...His bands incorporate ceramics and gold, and there is one studded with a single ruby that I love....
...I use Diorshow mascara and MAC’s Ruby Woo lipstick, which never comes off. It’s great – a 1950s red that works with everything. Mascara, £25; www.dior.com. Lipstick, £15.50; www.maccosmetics.com....
...Her song moved the Emperor to give her a token of his right there in the hall — a tiny ruby brooch of a rose. Shortly thereafter, the papers reported she’d vanished.”...
...The value theme is also evident in affordable jewellery, says Marie Feliciano, editor-in-chief of Jewellery News Asia, a trade magazine....
...The lily was the symbol of the French monarchy, and the jewellery house created versions for both Marie Antoinette and its post-revolution client Empress Joséphine: one precious lily tiara boasts 35 diamond...
...Even Marie Antoinette owned paste jewellery [set and faceted lead glass], because it was the same workmanship but less expensive,” says Ms Satloff....
...Marie-Hélène de Taillac, a Parisian jeweller, says that part of the stone’s growing appeal is that they are never irradiated or treated with chemicals....
...Kyle Books (published September 12, £18.99) … The Kids Only Cookbook By Sue Quinn Food writer Sue Quinn created this useful guide with the help of her own two mini-chefs: Ruby, 11, and Ben, 8....
...At the same time, 38 miles away, Adam Denton opened a butcher’s shop called Ruby & White in the Clifton district of Bristol, next to his restaurant, Cowshed....
...Cover the bain-marie with aluminium foil. ● After 35 minutes, check the temperature of the centre of the parfait using a probe thermometer....
...Ceramic ashtrays by the US artist Sterling Ruby, on sale at Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud of Brussels and priced between $4,000 and $10,000, sold out....
...in a bain marie to melt....
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