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...This was inspired by the performances of the experimental theatre group Taiwan Walker. “It’s all from my memories,” he says....
...In the restaurant is Justin Cogley, who won Best New Chef laurels from Food & Wine, American’s culinary bible, for his delicious work at Aubergine, the restaurant in Fink’s other hotel, L’Auberge Carmel....
...In the Fourth of July scene, the arrangement of young bodies on the riverbank soon gels into a mash-up of Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and Seurat’s “Île de la Grande Jatte”....
...Among his highlights for next week are Design Miami, which opens its first edition in the French capital (October 18-22, L’hôtel de Maisons)....
...Remember that at the time a lot of people thought this would become a redux of the S&L crisis and that a recession was unavoidable as banks retrenched....
...This sordid affair closed a chapter on Monday, the FT’s Joseph Cotterill and Owen Walker report, after UBS settled with Mozambique....
...(The FT’s Owen Walker live tweeted the event.) CS’s shares were once nearly SFr80 each, Daniel Engler, one shareholder noted. “The price of a chateaubriand.”...
...Things I enjoyed this week Laura Noonan and Owen Walker wrote an engaging FT Magazine piece on UBS chair Colm Kelleher....
...The first show will be of new work by 88-year old textile artist Sheila Hicks. This will be followed by an exhibition of late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe....
...Additional reporting by Tom Wilson, Owen Walker and Peter Campbell...
...Everywhere Grant’s style is visible — simplified forms, flat planes, bold colours — whether in two statuesque naked women holding a trompe l’oeil mirror above the fireplace or an acrobat on a door panel...
...Luke Walker, the designer and founder of fashion label LEJ, says he grew a moustache as soon as he could, although he can’t recall what prompted it....
...Meanwhile, Lasry’s compositions lure the listener with tantalising rhythms and an ingenious synthesis of musical styles infused with ’70s pop, memories of cinematic scores and echoes of Scott Walker....
...Taken to its logical extreme, it could be used to justify eco-suicide, or the madcap scheme of Samuel L Jackson’s villain in the first Kingsman film to kill off most of humanity to halt global warming....
...“We are busy all the time,” says manager Nathan Walker-Unwin. “The demand for this kind of place is amazing.”...
...A short walk from the Place de l’Odéon, the building containing the gallery was originally commissioned in the 16th century by King Henri II for his mistress Diane de Poitiers....
...Enel seeks to slash debt with €21bn asset sale (FT) Exonerated trader sues Deutsche Bank over Libor rigging allegations (FT) Tiger Global’s now-worthless FTX bet had Bain’s due diligence (Bloomberg) L&...
...For walkers like me, it is irresistible. Hardly anyone I know has ever visited....
...We even met a “bank walker”, Adam, one of an endangered breed employed to patrol the banks looking for weak spots. In winter the canal is drained for maintenance....
...Next week marks the opening of 52 Walker, a Tribeca gallery owned by David Zwirner, but operating in a different way to the norm....
...For Los Angeles-based ICM, whose clients include actor Samuel L Jackson and singer Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, the acquisition represents its first move into sports....
...Those fatalities explain the closed beaches, forbidden zones for walkers and notices at La Grandville and elsewhere warning of the danger of poisoning and death from hydrogen sulphide gas emitted by heaps...
...Additional reporting by Owen Walker...
...Greep doesn’t possess a velvety voice: his croon resembles a plain version of Scott Walker....
...Everyone wants their beauty products to come from natural, sustainable, animal-free sources – so much so that the “clean” movement has ballooned beyond smaller, independent brands, with the likes of L’Oréal...
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