Candy flat sells for £136m April 17, 2011 THE CANDY brothers have sold one of the penthouse suites in the One Hyde Park development for a record £136.4m, documents lodged with the Land Registry show. The anonymous buyer, under the guise of a British Virgin Islands-registered company and a Swiss private bank account, bought the three-floor apartment plus parking spaces and a wine [...]
Boston’s calling July 10, 2011 CAPE ANN: SMALL-TOWN BEAUTY MANCHESTER-by-the Sea is a little town about 30 miles north of Boston. It’s got white picket fences, a harbour, a tiny train station, two ice cream shops and an old diner called the Coffee Cup that’s recently been bought by a plucky, Italian-American mother and daughter called Christine and Kathy DeSalvo, [...]
Sailing on the high seas with pirates, yachts and brokers galore January 9, 2011 WHAT do you do when you’ve done the rounds at a clutch of investment banks and stockbroking firms? Well, write a novel about the thrilling world of super-yachts, pirates and international finance, of course. And that’s exactly how Adam Wilson, non-exec chairman of Atlantic Coal, former managing director of Hichens Harrison and founder of Teather [...]
Sailing on the high seas with pirates, yachts and brokers galore January 9, 2011 WHAT do you do when you’ve done the rounds at a clutch of investment banks and stockbroking firms? Well, write a novel about the thrilling world of super-yachts, pirates and international finance, of course. And that’s exactly how Adam Wilson, non-exec chairman of Atlantic Coal, former managing director of Hichens Harrison and founder of Teather [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS November 22, 2010 Huntsworth Group Global PR firm Huntsworth has added Colin Adams to its board as group finance director, replacing Tymon Broadhead. He has a background in media and joins from Bloomsbury Publishing, where has had been finance director since 1994. He also has three years’ experience on the investment committee of the creative capital fund. He [...]
TASTING NOTES July 5, 2010 FEELING weighed down by picnic and barbeqcue fare??Tired of rich meals that leave you feeling fat and ill? Well, as Heinz Beck, the Rome-based German super-chef has shown, it doesn’t have to be that way. Recently launched at his London outpost, Apsleys:?A Heinz Beck Restaurant at the Lanesborough hotel, is a healthy summer menu. It’s [...]
TASTING NOTES July 5, 2010 FEELING weighed down by picnic and barbeqcue fare??Tired of rich meals that leave you feeling fat and ill? Well, as Heinz Beck, the Rome-based German super-chef has shown, it doesn’t have to be that way. Recently launched at his London outpost, Apsleys:?A Heinz Beck Restaurant at the Lanesborough hotel, is a healthy summer menu. It’s [...]
Eastern lights: Asia’s sleepless city August 15, 2010 A BRILLIANT meeting of East and West, it offers an unforgettable introduction to the Orient, and is the perfect place to explore a different culture while taking in the rugby at the Hong Kong Sevens (and, for the sports-mad, the golf at the Hong Kong Open Championship and the horse-racing at Happy Valley). Or just [...]
Canada’s coolest city is both French and friendly September 5, 2010 THERE’s a good reason why Montreal is known as Canada’s party town. Quebec’s capital – the capital of French Canada – bills itself as the festival capital of the world. Every year there are dozens of festivals celebrating anything and everything. But it’s not just the likes of the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Anarchist Book [...]
Canada’s coolest city is both French and friendly September 5, 2010 THERE’s a good reason why Montreal is known as Canada’s party town. Quebec’s capital – the capital of French Canada – bills itself as the festival capital of the world. Every year there are dozens of festivals celebrating anything and everything. But it’s not just the likes of the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Anarchist Book [...]