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...Intensifying the beauty and impact of gems through innovative materials and techniques is also a speciality of Lugano, the Newport Beach-based jeweller opening a London salon next month....
...“There is only one man – it naturally formed this way,” says Roberts, who cut her design-fair teeth as co-executive director of New York’s Salon Art + Design....
...In 1761, this work was shown in the annual Salon together with the wild strawberries and the companion piece to the melon work, “Jar of Apricots” (1758)....
...Lemon New designs by South African designer Yaniv Chen will debut alongside existing Lemon pieces in an immersive salon-style space at Maison&Objet....
...The neoclassical designer Robert Adam created incredible libraries at Syon, Kenwood and Harewood, codifying the grandiose, book-lined look....
...These are shown alongside paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Valentin de Boulogne and Bartolomeo Manfredi, among others....
...It has this quality of being almost like a salon. It’s very beautiful and it’s at the centre of a great city – the Louvre is next door....
...That salon world which he loved is conjured by Berthe Morisot’s scintillating, feather-light “Young Woman in a Ball Gown” of 1879, and Giovanni Boldini’s flashy “Robert de Montesquiou” (1897), the ostentatious...
...“De Saint Phalle’s obsession from the mid-1960s was to create sculptures that one could walk into and inhabit,” says Fabienne Stephan, curator of Joy Revolution at New York’s Salon 94 (now LGDR, which represents...
...The inevitable encore was the Swan (“Le cygne”) from Le Carnaval des animaux, beautifully played....
...Simon Roberts, chief executive of UK supermarket group J Sainsbury, says that as a result of “challenging operational moments over the past 18 months, we’ve had to be really agile and adaptable”....
...Though de Castellane doesn’t mention a particular children’s book, Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses from 1885 immediately comes to mind. “The house sort of chose us, really....
...Subversion spread in dockside taverns or merchants’ salons. There were limits. William Tyndale printed his epoch-making translations of the Bible here....
...My personal style signifier is a pair of pants by Vetra, a French workwear brand that uses a beautiful bleu de travail dye....
...Robert M Rubin, a one-time Wall Street trader-turned-art historian and collector, owns one of the most influential modernist houses, the Maison de Verre....
...and participated, in 1949, at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, which championed abstract art and included Robert Delaunay and Jean Arp among its stable....
...After a six-year closure, this edition launched with a Picasso retrospective — the artist’s first appearance at the biennale (his work had been removed from a “Spanish salon” in 1910)....
...In one of the stranger episodes of the Spanish conquest, expeditions led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Sebastián de Belalcázar and Nicolás Federmann, coming from the north, south and east, all reached...
...She sees comparisons with the 1963 Elysée Treaty inked by Charles de Gaulle of France and West Germany’s Konrad Adenauer....
...In the 1890s-1900s Maurice Lobré, intimiste colleague of Vuillard, dedicated his career to portraying Versailles’ libraries, chapels, drawing rooms, Marie Antoinette’s salon, as jewelled black/gilt harmonies...
...Bright wintry light illuminated the stucco stalactites of the Salón de los Embajadores, and swelled the oranges ripening in the Generalife palace gardens....
...The relative tranquility of Tribeca has also attracted Manhattan A-listers over the years, among them Robert De Niro, Meg Ryan and Leonardo DiCaprio, who was until recently one of Schiff’s clients....
...This has the trademark suggestion of green vegetation but is agreeably delicate. 12.5% Dom Jean Teiller 2017 Menetou-Salon, Loire, France £15.95 Yapp Very impressive. Neither too sweet nor too tart....
...Robert Piguet Fracas, £95 for 50ml EDP; selfridges.com....
...Marie Antoinette took music lessons in the salon that bears her name and was guillotined outside on the Place de la Concorde....
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