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...“I love the way it bursts out for royal occasions. An extraordinary fluorescence, then it’s gone.” More Staffordshire potteries are turning out Charles III-themed china....
...Laureen The irony is I do work in a financial institution, but my knowledge of personal finance is very limited, and I don’t know if it’s even to do with the culture of where I work, like, everyone earns...
...Moreover, the company is incorporated as a partnership limited by shares, which gives non-family investors less control....
...The store, with parquet floors and monstera-lined walls, is “a box in which I put the things I like,” says Alba....
...Thankfully, “the V&A this year is having a bumper year. It’s 16 per cent up year on year, which is a lot of visitors to be up”....
...“I can’t tell you the cost. It would be very bad.” (His company, Aaya Ltd, does not disclose turnover; it belongs to a parent company incorporated in Singapore.)...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...But her description of its influence is not about the readership of Jonathan Franzen novels, sales of Philosophy cosmetics or voting patterns, but about her pride in the programme’s “immeasurable” effect...
...Obviously, I am serious enough to go to design school and I want to continue what I love. I am absolutely crafting a post-tennis career.” It’s a career grand slam....
...Anything handmade was deemed aesthetically inferior unless it was incorporated into a piece by an artist such as Tracey Emin or Grayson Perry....
...“I wanted to give traditional flock a distinct modern twist,” Hulanicki says. “I feel wallpaper design has previously been too serious. It needs an injection of humour.”...
...The original limited edition versions were selling on eBay for £10,000 plus, so consider this a bargain....
...“Sometimes I can’t find the right word to express a piece of imagination,” she shrugs, so instead she uses many....
...Q: Your thoughts please on positioning v branding and perhaps the former requiring much more attention and effort?...
...So now I decided I wanted to do something that is about what I love – and I love sophisticated fragrances and unusual fragrances....
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