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...Separately on Wednesday, BP and Equinor scrapped a New York offshore wind contract as its costs rose....
...The whole event was free, courtesy of the man who stood in the middle of the courtyard, chatting to all-comers and offering drinks from a bottle of Maid of Bruton sparkling rosé from the vineyard on his...
...From next year, following renovations, DSM will fill a 17th-century town house at 35-37 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois in the Paris district of Le Marais with collections including jewellery....
...In an interview with this magazine, Martine Rose, British Menswear Designer of the Year at the 2023 Fashion Awards, explained how her own bestselling loafer was inspired by Cox’s – “a smart shoe that felt...
...One good read People on X née Twitter are angry about this New Yorker story about the Bankman-Fried family, saying it lets Sam’s academic haute bourgeois parents off the hook too easily, given their own...
.... £16 Berry Bros & Rudd Ch Lafon 2018 Listrac (14%)Nicely balanced Cru Bourgeois. A good buy for lovers of classic claret....
...The group has assembled from across the city — some arriving by bike or moped, others via Metro — for an archetypal French spread: two bottles of rosé and some Kronenbourg 1664, filling baguettes with cheese...
...Throughout her career, Keller-Sutter has stood for the FDP, Switzerland’s economically liberal party of business, whose existence stretches back to the bourgeois heyday of the country’s industrial miracle...
...Switzerland’s largest city, wealthy and venerable for centuries, arguably still labours under the impression that it is slick, staid, bourgeois and not a little entitled....
...However, during my stay it had the advantage of being quiet, apart from when a Serge Gainsbourg lookalike wandered down the street playing “La Vie en Rose” on a trumpet....
...The architecture by Tadao Ando and Renzo Piano, and work by artists like Louise Bourgeois and Ai Weiwei – it’s perfection, as are the food, the wine, the olive groves and the service....
...Outwardly at least they all looked like pillars of bourgeois respectability....
...Through the latest fashion, a Second Empire crinoline, he claims bourgeois grandeur as heir to the antique muses: Inès Moitessier, a banker’s wife, seated on her throne-like rose settee, is as coolly impassive...
...this backdrop of “intense…really intense” lived experience that the 35-year-old designer (who celebrated the 10th anniversary of her label last year) and mother of two daughters – Valentine, six, and Noah Roses...
...They brim with pretty well all the super-established names — Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Ellsworth Kelly — as well as lesser-known ones such as Vincent Fecteau...
...Instead Magritte painted her much more classically, with a flesh-pink rose beside her, but “he called it ‘Le Combat’ – because it had been a fight!”...
...Rosé, since you ask....
...And he rose up the steps and he saw that they had done the coat in a series of delicate, thin pleats. How strange this technique. He would never have thought of it....
...In the rose-blue interior, scrambled forms of Japanese screen and furnishings dematerialise — a blur of grief....
...Handsome bourgeois apartments overlook us. The adjoining streets are pedestrianised, so it’s as quiet as central Madrid gets. The three-course lunchtime fixed menu costs a ludicrous €13 or so....
...Saville grew up with “classic, bourgeois” interiors in Hale in affluent south Manchester — “all lawyers, solicitors and accountants” — before studying graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic....
...Last week, mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth opened its permanent space in Monte Carlo’s renovated Casino Square with a show of Louise Bourgeois (until September 26)....
...They cooked simple food, usually inspired by the Mediterranean but defined by their simplicity and, invariably, their rejection of bourgeois “formality”....
...she told me of her free-wheeling style, favouring independent brands such as Martine Rose, Simone Rocha, Aries and Boot Boyz Biz....
...An age of burgeoning bourgeois comfort for many, this was also an age of intense and bitter cold, the so-called Little Ice Age, when the Thames froze over and Mary Evelyn, wife of the diarist John, complained...
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