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...It’s hard not to see Irish architect/designer Eileen Gray’s example from 1925 — composed of gleaming interlocking black lacquer blocks — as a piece of sculpture....
...It’s a concept that has echoes in the Bloomsbury Group’s ambition to immerse everything in art, executed most famously in Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s Sussex home Charleston....
...A couple of months later it was Vanessa Schindler’s earrings that stopped me in my tracks, shapeless blobs of baby pink, citrus yellow and muddy green slowly sliding off long silver chains as if they were...
...As Alistair Gray reports, the rise and fall of competitors is just one factor the retail leader is having to contend with....
...Best of the rest What I’ve been reading elsewhere Vanessa Springora, the publisher calling out Gabriel Matzneff’s paedophilia....
...The FT's Vanessa Kortekaas highlights the key stories to watch in the week ahead, including an address by Angela Merkel on the future of Europe, economic data from the UK, and third-quarter results from...
...The FT's Vanessa Kortekaas highlights the key stories to watch for in the week ahead, including a European Commission ruling on Italy's budget, Germany's third quarter GDP figures, easyJet's full-year results...
...Here's the FT's Alistair Gray. Bottom lines at the big US banks like JPMorgan and Citi are likely to look very strong....
...Here's Alistair Gray, our US financial correspondent. So it's been a tricky time for investors in financial markets. We've seen swings in asset prices that we haven't seen for some time....
...Vanessa Gray of the International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency that monitors ewaste, says more countries are following the lead of places like the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden by implementing...
...Vanessa Seward invited the French singing troupe Catastrophe to perform a madcap a cappella ditty midway through her “glam gaucho” AW18 show....
...Carlo Gray, head of Buzzacott, an accountancy firm in Hong Kong, said: “We have had a flurry of inquiries recently in respect to Brits returning to the UK for work or for their children’s education and these...
...In 2005, Paul Gray, then deputy chairman of HMRC told MPs that “the seven-year rule is a pretty straightforward one and clear-cut.”...
...Additional reporting by Vanessa Houlder...
...vanessa.friedman@ft.com, @VVFriedman...
...Earlier in her career, she collaborated with Italian jewellery house Repossi, then worked with Vanessa Seward, the ready-to-wear designer, on two costume jewellery collections for Azarro, the French luxury...
...President Obama will look tonight at Lynn University, during the last debate of this increasingly close election, here’s a clue, courtesy of Michael Lewis’s Vanity Fair profile: “You’ll see I wear only gray...
...Vanessa Friedman provided an elegant analysis of what Barack Obama and Mitt Romney wore in debates one and two (“It’s the accessory, stupid”, Life & Arts, October 20)....
...When Paul Gray, the Revenue’s chairman, departed after the 2007 loss of computer discs containing the child benefit records of every family in Britain, Mr Hartnett stepped up to acting chairman....
...vanessa.friedman@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/friedman...
...Selections by Vanessa Friedman … Junot Díaz, Author of ‘This is How You Lose Her’ (Faber) The most extraordinary (and harrowing) book I read this year was Oscar Martínez’s The Beast: Riding the Rails...
...Peter Pereira Gray, head of investment at the Wellcome Trust, said: “We are disappointed that the opportunity to create our vision for the Olympic Park and the legacy will now not take place....
...Robert Gray, UBM’s chief financial officer, said: “We welcome the chancellor’s proposals for reform of UK corporate tax regulation and in particular the taxation of [controlled foreign companies] income....
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