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...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...Smiths Group has named Steve Williams, the chair of aluminium producer Alcoa, to succeed George Buckley as chair after he retires in November....
...Compass Mining said it had accepted the resignation of chief executive Whit Gibbs and finance chief Jodie Fisher, effective immediately, and that it was searching for replacements....
...Visiting these formal rooms, which include a magnificent marble parlour devoted to Bacchus (created by architect James Gibbs and developed by William Kent) and sumptuous thematic bedchambers, is a sensory...
...It’s a particularly English way of doing things (past exponents also include the gimlet-eyed Christopher Gibbs). “In the US we don’t have that tradition....
...However, former Downing Street head of communications Robbie Gibb led a last-minute rival bid for the Jewish Chronicle along with ten prominent media and business figures including former Labour MP John...
...Aptly, they located it round the fine Gothic house at Rousham, in Oxfordshire, best known for its Georgian landscape garden, a masterpiece by William Kent, whose traces are an essential visit for anyone...
...The rapper and author Akala described it as his “Wilberforce moment” — the occasion he first confronted the central place of William Wilberforce in the way Britain framed its involvement in the slave trade...
...The rival consortium is being fronted by former Downing Street head of communications Robbie Gibb, biographer William Shawcross, former Labour MP John Woodcock, Rabbi Jonathan Hughes of Radlett United Synagogue...
...If anyone is to be credited with introducing the little guy to financial equities, it is probably Treasury secretary William Gibbs McAdoo, who recruited entertainers such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford...
...Justice William Ehrcke said Meng Wanzhou must pay for private security guards and post C$10m (US$7.5m) bail, including C$7m in cash and $3m from at least five sureties....
...However, William Furniss of Knight Frank insists there is still value to be found....
...Most significantly, Ms Williams says, the goal made commercial sense....
...In 1979 “To Love Somebody” received an earnest rendition by Hank Williams Jr, giving it country credibility....
...The influential dealer and collector Christopher Gibbs says of the pair, “They opened the eyes of a generation.” By 1972, though, Dufferin wanted out, and the gallery was closed....
...Two years ago, he brought to the world a rare and fine William Kent hall bench, in perfectly untouched condition, en suite to the Hall furniture at Holkham, the great Palladian house on the north Norfolk...
...Arguably equally important is the context, the Grade I listed buildings, notably St Mary-le-Strand church that stands opposite, designed by James Gibbs and, of course, Somerset House....
...With Steel and Gibbs as trustees, he was able to press the corporate board to agree to a share issue and partial disengagement....
...Stephen Williams, an analyst at Brewin Dolphin, said the profit warning showed Carillion’s failed approach was more of a lucky escape than a missed opportunity....
...“The ongoing legislative impasse in respect of the budget is an unwelcome headwind for business confidence,” says Richard Gibbs, chief economist at Macquarie Group....
...He is nonexecutive chairman of US industrial services company BakerCorp and chairman designate of Williams & Glyn's Bank....
..., Colen Campbell, William Kent, Charles Barry, Norman Shaw and, most recently, Norman Foster....
...The float was a flop and Hannam paid with his job, though the Salomon security failed to frisk the financier before he left their Victoria offices: in his pocket Mr Hannam had a letter from Sir Roger Gibbs...
...“We’re changing the way you interact with your bike,” said founder Kenny Gibbs, who hoped to raise $500,000 to work on a completely integrated smart bike for launch next year....
...Designed by James Gibbs and Colen Campbell, with interiors by William Kent, every inch of Houghton was conceived to best show off the statesman’s collection, so carved details and ornate murals were specifically...
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