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...the gilt-mounted objets de vertu such as needle-cases, perfume bottles and snuffboxes on show, the most extraordinary are those embellished with sumptuous jewelled and enamelled neo-renaissance mounts by Baron...
...So passionate a connoisseur is Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza that he had a computerised vitrine built for his Roman Imperial coinage....
...I mention the new flagpole in town, the work of modern barons, and she rolls her eyes. “My family has been here since before the revolutionary war,” Hammond tells me....
...“The prince [Fink] needed all the barons to commit to total loyalty, and basically killed off all the barons that wouldn’t do so.”...
...In Mank, the hazard is ethical, hinged on the writer’s friendship with actress Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried), saddled as the model for poor Susan Alexander. More murk awaits....
...This recently rediscovered “Bust of Peace” was carved in 1814 for Canova’s earliest British patron and friend, John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor....
...His tastes are eclectic, he says, ranging from Old Masters to works inspired by travels with Susan, his third wife....
...Among them is one of the youngest galleries here, Kallos, founded in 2012 by Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza, who has certainly inherited the family collecting gene....
...On July 8, Sotheby’s is offering a market rarity: a virtuoso full-length portrait of the 21-year-old John, third Baron Monson, commissioned during his travels of 1772-76 and now consigned to auction by his...
...The presiding genius of this new venture is 50-year-old Swiss entrepreneur and collector Lorne Thyssen, more properly Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon, an heir to one of Europe’s biggest industrial fortunes...
...She equates Comcast’s power in high-speed internet provision with the great monopolies of the past, such as the railroad barons of the late 19th century....
...The small garden is dominated by a bronze statue by John Farnham, an apprentice of Henry Moore, which was a birthday gift to Susan....
...Day 12 South Africa Robben Island We are steaming toward Robben Island on the Susan Kruger, a rickety blue prison boat laden with overwhelmingly white and coloured (mixed-race) tourists....
...Most people seem to think the camera is a 19th-century invention, including “serious” people such as Susan Sontag, who wrote that the camera was “invented in 1839”....
...These days, royalties accrue to the rising barons of the global economy: the makers of internet technology, pharmaceuticals, music and films....
...His most well-known work, A Book of Memories (published in English in 1997), about a Hungarian novelist in a love affair in East Germany, had Susan Sontag among others in raptures....
...Now grown up, Garner’s hero, Colin, works at Jodrell Bank as an astronomer and Susan has vanished, possibly living in the Pleiades....
...Holbein’s sole known autographed portrait of Henry VIII was sold through Agnew’s to Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza in 1935 for £10,000, and Rembrandt’s portrait of his son Titus was acquired by Norton Simon for...
...Soft drinks companies, Japanese electronics groups and oil barons have all invested in the film industry in the past after falling under Hollywood’s spell....
...Undertaking his first Baron Ochs in New York, the Icelandic bass Kristinn Sigmundsson dealt in revelations....
...Ken Thomson – better known in Britain as the Times-owning newspaper baron Lord Thomson of Fleet (a title he never used in his native Canada) – spent more than 50 years amassing what became the most important...
...I may have imagined a nod of approval from the assembled British old guard, such as David Frost and Baron Rees-Mogg....
...The gift of this collection, valued at about $300m and built up over half a lifetime by the media baron Kenneth Thomson – the 2nd Lord Thomson of Fleet and Northbridge (1923-2006) – represents the largest...
...But the energy barons become more enthusiastic when American lawmakers are seeking to impose those burdens on other countries....
...To generations of union barons the question of whether the TUC annual conference still matters would have been regarded as heresy, yet it is a subject that is becoming increasingly pertinent....
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