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...Also in Paris, Sotheby’s wrapped up its mammoth auctions of 1,131 pieces of furniture and other objects from the mid-17th-century Hôtel Lambert (October 11-17)....
...Berkshire Hathaway acquired 1.2m shares in RH, previously known as Restoration Hardware. The investment, valued at $206m, amounts to a 6.5 per cent stake in the company....
...Monday's jump in Wayfair's share price took the online seller of home furniture to an all-time high of $171.44, 89 per cent above where it started the year....
...His work is very Japanese [and] his furniture gave me many hints about furniture design,” he said....
...Williams-Sonoma and upscale furniture retailer Restoration Hardware had good quarters, however Bed, Bath & Beyond, which also reported on Wednesday saw sales fall....
...RH shares had their best day since 2012 after the upscale furniture brand formerly known as Restoration Hardware boosted its full-year earnings and sales outlook and beat expectations for its second-quarter...
...Restoration Hardware shares on Friday had their steepest one-day drop since February 2016 after the luxury furniture maker cut its profit guidance citing an “uncertain macro environment”....
...Elsewhere, shares in upscale furniture retailer Restoration Hardware were hit after it took the axe to its full-year sales and earnings forecasts amid a 90 per cent collapse in third-quarter profits....
...Myatt is less reticent in his speculations: he is convinced the latest Old Master culprit is someone schooled in art restoration who has seen great works pass through their hands over many years....
...Shares in upscale US furniture chain Restoration Hardware fell sharply on Thursday after the company issued a profit warning and received a string of downgrades from analysts on Wall Street....
...At the other end of the spectrum was Restoration Hardware. The upmarket US furniture chain warned on Wednesday that recent volatility in the equity and commodity markets would weigh on its profits....
...Two other store retailers that have shone online, furniture merchant Restoration Hardware and high-end department store Nordstrom, with half and a fifth of their sales online respectively, have suffered...
...“Sotheby’s is like an old master painting in desperate need of restoration,” Mr Loeb wrote in an open letter last October....
...“People don’t write to Larry David and say, ‘Dear Larry David, do you really think it’s a problem that you had to take a stripper doll in the carpool lane?’”...
...Harvey Norman, a big furniture and electronics shop chain, surged 6.9 per cent to A$3.43....
...Three hours to go: with Phoebe as director, clutching our parasols, we climbed over mantlepieces, furniture and the Rodnik Lucky Trunk chased by W’s lens....
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