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...At FT Globetrotter, we are particularly excited about the Pompidou Centre’s big Brâncuși show in March, the opening of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s Paris bolt-hole, Villa Windsor, in the summer and,...
...Barely a year later, the Gardiners were ready to rebuild – and commissioned the then-fashionable architecture firm Wyeth & King to devise a worthy replacement....
...However, although the house was filled with trompe l’oeil and the photos were retouched, the jewels were — are — resolutely real....
...Online fashion rival, Boohoo, whose chief executive John Lyttle was once in charge of buying at Arcadia, is likely to acquire Topshop stablemates Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis....
...Wilder co-wrote his screenplays with scribes such as Charles Brackett and I.A.L. Diamond, often in cantankerous relationships....
...“l thought Theresa May would do a good job at first but she’s plummeted.”...
...Will Wallis at Numis can give us the detail of the strategy review: We summarise the outcome as a focus on self-help, requiring upfront P&L investment....
...The Del’s founders, Elisha Babcock Jr and Hampton L Story, saw the potential in what is still one of California’s finest beaches....
...A postwar initiative to expose British schoolchildren to the best in modern art, attracting contributors such as Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Henri Matisse and L.S....
...A little way beyond, we come to the former home of Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb used in the Dambusters raid....
...Nice and Lovely, a Kenyan cosmetics group was acquired by L’Oréal last year. There has been other positive news. Kenya’s $2bn debut Eurobond, this year, was more than four times subscribed....
...In Paris in 1927, she had the bright idea of knitting a trompe l’oeil pattern – a knotted bow – into the neckline of a humble sweater....
...L’Oréal, the French cosmetics company, wants to increase sales 10-20 per cent annually in Africa. Procter & Gamble has opened a $27m soap factory outside Lagos....
...… The Dark Inside, by Rupert Wallis, Simon & Schuster, RRP£6.99 There are echoes of David Almond’s Skellig in Wallis’s beautifully written debut....
...Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams will be holding sales of Chinese and Japanese works of art (illustrated, Yuan dynasty vase at Bonhams on Thursday), while Woolley & Wallis will be previewing highlights...
...He refuses party invitations, interviews and online retail, selling exclusively at a few stores (Dover Street Market; IF in New York; L’Eclaireur in Paris)....
...“There’s an American painter called Andrew Wyeth,” says Amit Gupta, the film’s first-time director, who also co-wrote the script with Sheers....
...In a wide-ranging new monograph, L.S. Lowry: The Art and the Artist, T.G....
...Presented by James Blitz, with William Wallis, FT Africa editor, and James Crabtree, FT comment editor in the studio. Produced by Rob Minto...
...Pfizer rallied 2.1 per cent to $17.26 as the company reported better-than- expected results for the first quarter, boosted by its recent acquisition of smaller rival Wyeth....
...Crucell would offer Wyeth a chance to maintain its weight and to diversify its portfolio....
...L’Oréal rose 2.1 per cent to €83.17 after Swiss food group Nestlé , which owns a 29 per cent stake in the French cosmetics company, said it would not sell the stake before 2009....
...a notch, reading like a centuries-long, gradually democratising gossip column – from Edward VII, who came for the racing at Iffezheim and managed to lose his escorting staff to the town’s pleasures, to Wallis...
...In Americans and Europeans – Dancing in the Dark, American academic Dennis L....
...Kefaya was launched in the house of Abu’l-Ela Madi, a former Brotherhood member who split along with 18 others from the group in 1996 in an attempt to form a centrist party....
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