Galerie Dumonteil’s ‘Splendor on the Riviera’ exhibition
The opening of Galerie Dumonteil’s latest exhibition, Splendor on the Riviera, in New York was very much an Anglo-American affair. (more…)
Tag: French
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Sébastien Jondeau
Karl Lagerfeld’s bodyguard and personal assistant of 14 years has also modeled for Chanel. This ex boxer is “always immaculately suited” and also appeared in the 2011 Pirelli Calendar. -
A Facel for a family
Facel Vega II formerly owned by Ringo Starr goes to auction
Earlier this year we featured the sale of John Lennon’s first car and now the same auction house, Bonhams, are selling a car belonging to his band mate Ringo Starr MBE. (more…)
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La revolution reverse
Pontus Maltborg examines the changing face of France’s Ligue 1
The French football Ligue 1 has long been the league of the many and of unpredictability as it has had 6 different champions during the last 6 years and lacked real established hierarchy. This is however drastically changing as the French league is now turning into a tale of two cities or rather a tale and battle of two kingdoms. (more…)
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Taking a Flaming Liberty
Inappropriately placed poster for the film ‘Diana’ should be removed
The film Diana starring Naomi Watts was deservedly criticised as “inappropriate” but now that those promoting it have placed an advertising poster for it next to the scene of her 1997 death at the Pont de l’Alma in Paris, they’ve truly sunk to a new low. (more…)
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I cried all the way to the piano
One of Liberace’s pianos heads to auction
Liberace personally played to 25 million fans during his 40-year career and during this time he built up a mammoth collection of pianos. One of them, a Conover pompadour model, will be auctioned by Britannia Piano Auctions in Manchester on 12th September. (more…)
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Wentworth Miller III
British born, American raised, Miller rose to fame in the Fox Network series Prison Break. A Princeton graduate, the actor turned screenwriter used the pseudonym Ted Foulke to write Stoker and Uncle Charlie and came out as gay in August 2013 in a letter posted on GLAAD’s website where he declined to attend a film festival in Russia on the basis of the country’s treatment of homosexuals. In his letter he boldly stated: “I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly”. -
Matthew Winthrop Barzun
The United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom was appointed in August 2013 and is a descendant of John Winthrop, an early 17th century governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Married to the heiress to the Jack Daniels whiskey empire, Barzun was a fundraiser for Obama’s 2008 campaign and head of strategic planning for Halsey Minor’s CNET. Of the “special relationship”, this Harvard graduate has stated: “This isn’t some Downton Abbey episode”. We’ll most definitely be watching. -
Five of the best: Apartments for the jet set
The best apartments for ultra high net worth individuals
Jet setting ultra high net worth individuals, be they top flight hedge fund titans or Russian oligarchs, often want homes that they can lock-up-and-leave when they head off to yet another of their residences. They also tend to like properties with the very best of services. Here, we showcase five that might be especially desirable for such people (more…)
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Dr. Elisabeth Maxwell (better known as Betty Maxwell, 1921 – 2013)
Her “fat fraudster” husband called this French Hugenot Protestant “the keeper of my Jewish soul”. Of her life with him, she wrote an autobiography titled A Mind of My Own: My Life With Robert Maxwell and in it described him “as bullying, unfaithful and frequently absent as he amassed his empire”. This mother of nine children’s expertise on the Holocaust was renowned. She put up with a lot and of the media tycoon concluded: “God forbid I run into him again”.