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...The fund’s other top holdings include Microsoft, L’Oréal, and luxury goods company LVMH....
...Before I experienced Barkley L Hendricks’ revelatory retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008, I had never seen more than a couple of his works at a time....
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...I took a shore walk with Terry Hunter, one of the indigenous guides changing tourism in Australia....
...Terry Smith and Nick Train suffer outflows The continued march of cheap passive equity offerings and the more recent move towards high-yielding cash products has two prominent casualties: Terry Smith and...
...Sensata will appoint Phillip Eyler to its board of directors. Sensata chief Jeff Cote also announced his retirement and a search is under way for his replacement....
...These shapes have many facets to play with, and everyone from the Lebanese L’Atelier Nawbar to William Welstead, Alice Cicolini to Gucci, has been seduced....
...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...UK fund manager Terry Smith was paid more than £36mn last year as his investment boutique Fundsmith posted a bumper profit....
...Rachel Phillips, solicitor in the London office of JMW Solicitors, says this may be a case of maternity discrimination....
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...A 1977 photograph of Elton John by Terry O’Neill is among the limited editions, and surprising offerings abound: a Brutalist architecture-inspired silk scarf by Amelia Graham, or handmade candlesticks by...
...The classic example is Tesco’s Terry Leahy, regarded as one of the great retail managers of his generation when he quit....
...L-I-B-O-R. Harriet Clarfelt As the acronym kind of suggests, it started off in the UK. So it started the 1980s with the British Bankers’ Association....
...Denise L Ramos, a director on its sustainability committee, has a surprising side gig: chair of the public policy and sustainability committee at Texan oil refiner Phillips 66....
...Phillip Hennche, the brand’s director of channel innovation, says the partnership generated “huge” interest....
...In a debilitating attack of l’esprit de l’escalier, I have since realised there’s no reason on God’s green earth I couldn’t have had both....
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...A Hard Rock International hotel joined Times Square earlier this month while developer L&L Holding and its partners are on track next year to open a $2.5bn tower with a luxury hotel, theatre and sprawling...
...“North Korea is on its way to perfecting its nuclear programme,” says Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst who heads the Asia programme at the Wilson Center think-tank in Washington....
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...Alexandre Ghotbi, head of watches at Phillips for continental Europe and the Middle East, suggests service watches are largely a “thing of the past”....
...Simone Rocha wool shorts, £625 L’Objet gold-plated metal and amazonite cocktail forks, £140 for four Louis Vuitton cotton, viscose and metal-fibre dress, POA Sophie Bille Brahe gold and diamond Nuit...
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