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...Global luxury brands LVMH and L’Oréal collectively account for almost a quarter of the returns from French stocks. These are not outliers....
...To this end, his latest project is entitled Breath of an Architect, an installation opening at the Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris this December....
...The shoots are young, almost imperceptible, but soon their leaves will create a “small forest” amid the olive groves....
...Or if you’ve just got a lot of leveraged repo or interest rate swaps without huge amounts of excess collateral and your collateral value drops at the time that your P&L starts to stink and variation margin...
...that my companions were about to crash from their marzipan sugar highs, but they enjoyed nosing around the palace, racing each other down its twin staircases, marvelling at the tiled floors and trompe l’...
...A giant violin made almost entirely from oranges and lemons stands in the gardens outside Menton’s Palais de l’Europe, in tribute to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro....
...To step inside the Ladbroke Grove home of fashion designer Olivia von Halle is to be bathed in a sunbeam glow....
...Among those drawn to Chiswick for its rural feel were Toby and Chris....
...On one hand they have a balance sheet and a P&L like anyone else, and right now they’re not looking great....
...Toby Nangle was formerly Global Head of Asset Allocation at Columbia Threadneedle Investments....
...Those who survived camped out anywhere they could, amid the rows of crumpled buildings or in the olive groves that dot the area....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...And my Vanilla Bean is a trompe-l’oeil pastry that you cut into to reveal a variety of textures....
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...When she makes her first foray to Nicky’s flat in the then-bohemian Ladbroke Grove, she had “never seen so many coloured faces before, anywhere in England”....
...The cast — from PR mogul Edward L Bernays to dictator Carlos Castillo Armas — are mostly historical but in Vargas Llosa’s expert hands, they are alive and kicking....
...But the 19th century was the real heyday of “Egyptomania’” and the subject of Toby Wilkinson’s latest book....
...dissidents, and explains why in 1979, the Iranian revolution was hailed by the left, including by French intellectuals, as well as by Sunni Islamists such as the Muslim Brothers and the Pakistani Sayyid Abu’l-A...
...And on my wishlist is Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance’s green Borghese sofa, which evokes a stylised grove. It is contemporary and in touch with nature....
...The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories, by John L’Heureux, A Public Space, RRP$28, 432 pages David Vann’s latest novel, ‘Halibut on the Moon’, is published by Grove Atlantic Join our...
...His little hidden salon on Westbourne Grove, London, does great haircuts, blowdries and keratin treatments, and he is always honest in telling me what I need.” andy-monzer.co.uk Hervé van der Straeten,...
...Girl, Woman, Other , by Bernardine Evaristo, Hamish Hamilton, RRP £16.99/Grove Press, RRP$27 The south London novelist, poet and playwright is the first black woman to win the Booker Prize, shared with...
...Other promising revivals include Toby Jones and Richard Armitage as Vanya and Astrov in Conor McPherson’s new version of Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya (Harold Pinter Theatre, London, from January 14)...
...That water has been used to great effect at one of my favourite hotels in Morocco, L’Ma Lodge, in the centre of the palm grove....
...The company hired J & L Staffing & Recruiting, a Sioux City employment agency, to find workers....
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