Hints and tips:
...(Before I launch into some recommendations, it’s also worth noting that I have long despaired at the commercial marketing of vitamin C products in yellow or orange packaging....
...A tank dress in putty-coloured sequins and baguette rhinestones presented a more wearable option for the Oscars, (perhaps minus the trompe l’oeil outline of boxer shorts)....
...is also particularly special and under the purview of David Hawksworth, one of Canada’s most lauded chefs who spent more than a decade in British Michelin-starred kitchens (Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, L’...
...He was joined by his C&C colleague George Kyle....
...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....
...The renovated 1930s industrial building has a fully glazed roof and is shaped like a letter A, “and we just put the letters C and B around it,” says Bonnet, when I ask him what CAB means....
...With rock-crystal chandeliers in almost every room, some adorned with frescos and trompe l’oeil, there are echoes here too of Mondadori’s past: the interiors were reimagined by Renzo Mongiardino in the 1970s...
...From Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth comes the stunning “Apollo and the Continents” (c.1739), sketch for the frescoed vault at Milan’s Palazzo Clerici: the airborne sun god emanates a glowing yellow atmosphere...
...Refining capacity is to shrink c.30% by 2030, from c.1.7mbd to 1.5mbd by 2025 then to 1.2mbd by 2030....
...we hear about George Washington’s prophetic obsession with the strategic importance of the Ohio river, and the fatal decision by Chiang Kai-shek, China’s nationalist leader, to breach the dykes of the Yellow...
...All the salad leaves and vegetables were first class, especially a salad of mixed leaves that came with a first course of fresh Amish goat’s cheese on a bed of yellow beetroot....
...“A lot of lenders moved away from accepting as much variable income as they did before the pandemic,” says David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C Mortgages....
...We value Sumo based on a PE multiple of c.36x FY20E, a c.10-15% premium to the global peer group average (falling to 27x in FY21E)....
...One is yellow gold with a black diamond, another white gold with haematite, and the third yellow gold with haematite....
...Its much-fêted debut perfume, C’est la Vie, was launched in 1992. It stank, in every sense of the word, and sank. “It was disgusting,” said Lacroix....
...Company commentary supports our view of limited direct impact to P&C : Hannover Re: noted a potential €200m loss across P&C and L&H; Munich Re: noted a €500m loss should all the events it covers for communicable...
...With the UN predicting that by 2025 two-thirds of the world’s population will be living in “water-stressed” conditions, cosmetics giant L’Oréal, for instance, has pledged to cut its water consumption by...
...This tends to be c.20% higher....
...And with value likely to outperform both in the mild and severe scenarios, AXA is the pick among the multilines, L&G’s favoured in life, plus Prudential....
...These four masterpieces visit from Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, Washington’s National Gallery, Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, and are emblematic both of the stunning loans achieved...
...He sold Pierre Soulages’ “Composition” (c.1952) for €450,000, and André Masson’s “L’homme ivre (l’homme libre)” (1962) for €220,000. Both works were acquired by European collectors....
...Work by L.S. Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Hockney and Peter Blake also features....
...minuscule steel hammers....
...A suburban factory is painted in fast, stabbing strokes in the gritty “Bords de l’Oise à Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône” (1867)....
...Despite their reputation for toughness, diamonds have a crystal structure and as such are fragile; Mr Lamb at Lucara suggests anyone sceptical of this should try taking a hammer to their diamond ring....
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