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...The collection of five designs – each produced in a limited edition of 1,000, and priced from £550 (abask.com) – is a new take on the brand’s candle-like cordless design, first released in 2022....
...In the past it has shown Simon Fujiwara, Cyprien Gaillard and Pol Taburet, as well as holding concerts, workshops and music festivals....
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...Features included exclusive and limited edition pieces, and a “personalisation station” allowing customers to design their own jewellery using an app....
...Sand miner US Silica Holdings plans to raise the prices of sand products used in glass, building and chemicals by up to a fifth from June to offset higher labour, transport, materials and manufacturing costs...
...The works at IMMA come from the Hobarts’ personal holdings and are not shown for sale, the museum confirms. And finally . . ....
...Their accounts paint a picture of a domineering executive holding court over a company culture that could be as intoxicating as it was toxic....
...Unless Ping An is able to garner support for a structural overhaul from other significant shareholders, its chances of success are limited....
...“These pieces have the weight of touching and grasping and holding and comforting,” she says. Broadhead’s exhibitors used an eclectic array of materials....
...There will also be a limited-edition peated 18-year-old malt (£1,275) from Suntory’s other single-malt distillery Hakushu (which by coincidence celebrates its half-century this year)....
...Each of the 30 pieces, holding 1.5 litres of extrait de parfum, comes with a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity – like an artwork....
...Sotheby’s is holding a cross-category online sale, between April 21 and May 4, of items relating to the British monarchy past and present....
...The British ceramicist and writer is sitting in a glass-walled room in the ceramics galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, looking at rows of glass cabinets packed with decorative vessels...
...holder by Diptyque, £190 A limited-edition design, mouth-blown from Murano glass. diptyqueparis.com Ombo glass candlestick by Issy Granger, £38 Traditionally made by artisans in Cairo from borosilicate...
...“I really liked this proportion and how the way of holding it was reduced to simple functionality.”...
...You might think there is limited room for technical innovation in the low-cost world of disposable vapes....
...I have a glass of Ukrainian Pinot Gris from Odesa. Since February last year, the Serhiy Prytula Foundation says it has collected nearly $120mn for military and humanitarian causes....
...So I promise that was not Anna’s attempt to butter him up before he comes under our magnifying glass. Stephen, who are you buying or selling this week?...
...Last year, Olivia Thorpe, the founder of organic British beauty brand Vanderohe, branched out with Curio, a line of nature-inspired colourful blown glass....
...Fibre optic technology, by contrast, uses tiny threads of glass to carry modulated light along the same underground pathways, increasing the quantity of data that can be transported....
...On Aqua Mare, Galli Zugaro stands in an Orlebar Brown navy blazer with white piping holding a glass of wine. I ask him if his fifth launch in nearly 15 years feels like his business’s boat or his boat....
...“A good number of these companies have never been in a fund before as a [limited partner]....
...Still, a new report from UN Principles for Responsible Investment viewed the glass half-full....
...“If you think for one moment I don’t have the balls to send a man out to die, your instincts are dead wrong,” she tells him over a glass of neat Bourbon....
...Vermeule may delight in skewering online opponents but, in person, he is unfailingly mild-mannered and polite — to our waiter, to the staffer who cleans up the shards of the empty glass he inadvertently...
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