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...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
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...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman , by Ben Hubbard, William Collins, RRP£20, 384 pages Malise Ruthven is the author of ‘L’Arabie des Saoud: Wahhabisme, violence et corruption’ (La fabrique)...
...al) with buildings by Ando, Rogers, Piano, Niemeyer and Nouvel....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...In 2011 — by then Altrad generated €490m in revenues — the state-owned investor Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations bought an 11 per cent stake....
...September’s Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris saw a cascade of black gems, from Chanel’s Café Society to Louis Vuitton’s Acte V collections....
...China has a low level of de jure openness but a higher level of de facto openness....
...Angels Karlie Kloss, Doutzen Kroes, Lily Aldridge et al fly into London for the first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on British soil (@victoriasecret)....
...Pain et des Idées (34 rue Yves Toudic, 10th). I love their little bread rolls spiked with various things such as lardons, figs, Comté . . . Best discovery of the past 12 months . . ....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...Charly Bailly Fine Art 10 rue de l’Hôtel de Ville, 1204 Geneva www.charlybailly.com Charly Bailly founded Charly Bailly Fine Art in the heart of Geneva’s old town....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...The national registry is a sort of back office, where all the country’s state and commercial ETS allowances are held and trades are logged....
...While Lee is in Paris at Kreo’s rue Dauphine space with work from artists Donald Judd, Larry Clark and Michelangelo Pistoletto et al, the Krzentowskis will be in London with a selection of limited edition...
...Sucres et Denrées....
...The framework allows for – even demands – a stunning display of eclecticism: eerie dissonance for the ghosts, wisps of Mozart and Rossini for Figaro et al, tense action scenes, engaging set pieces and one...
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