Weekend Argus Saturday 2022-05-21

Michael James Organisation will be selling the entire contents of a shoe manufacturing company in Paarden Eiland in a liquidation auction. The auction, starts on Thursday June 2 at 10.30am, on site at 18 Auckland Street. Among the items going under the hammer will be: Jiang Chuanheng 1014 UV light activation machine. Conveyco belt over conveyor systems. 3-phase and single-phase buzz bars. Fuchang Machinery Company strap plugging machine (left and right foot). RCN-109 pneumatic bottom. Up sole attaching machine. NUOA Ginev SA2B 2-speed roughing machine. Twin-fitted dust extractor. 2017 and 2016 Balma Air Compressors – K30 250 litre. In-sock glue machine. Brother single-needle lockstitch M/C. 2009 Golden Fount sole mounting press. Tools. There will also be an assortment of executive desks, chairs, cabinets and credenzas; shelving and racks; IT equipment…

Rawson Auctions Western Cape will be selling a three-bedroom residence in Westridge, Mitchells Plain, on Wednesday. The 100m² house, on a 289m² plot on Park Avenue, has three carpeted bedrooms; a bathroom with bath, shower and basin; a separate toilet; a lounge that flows into a cosy dining room – both of which are carpeted – and a kitchen. There is a well-maintained garden at the front of the house and a concreted area with some lawn at the back, as well as secure parking for four cars, with space to build a drive-through garage. The home has burglar bars on the windows and a safety gate on the front door. It is centrally located with easy access to all the amenities Mitchells Plain has to offer, such as shopping…

The 1932 Pablo Picasso painting Femme nue couchée sold for $67.5 million (about R1 billion) this week at its auction debut at Sotheby’s in New York, the most recent large sale at auction for blue-chip art. The sale price comes a week after Andy Warhol’s 1964 silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetched $195m at Christie’s, setting a record for a work by an American artist sold at auction. Sotheby’s had predicted the Picasso painting, a surrealistic depiction of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter, to sell in excess of $60m. Tuesday’s price falls short of other portraits of Marie-Thérèse, one of which fetched $103.4m at Christie’s last year. Femme nue couchée, which translates from French to “Nude Reclining Woman”, shows Marie-Thérèse as a many-limbed sea creature with her head tilted back in…

Amy Odell’s biography of Anna Wintour, the renowned editor-in-chief of Vogue, approaches 500 pages, nearly 100 of them composed of endnotes. Odell reviewed the clips, searched the archives, interviewed former assistants, spoke to a fleet of Wintour’s friends, acquaintances and colleagues, as well as ex-boyfriends. Yet the ultimate findings in Anna: The Biography feel rather slim and mundane, which may actually say more about the mythology surrounding the subject than the skill and tenacity of the author. The version of Anna that lives in the popular imagination is far more intriguing than the flesh-and-blood reality – at least as Odell portrays her. All who know her – and even those who don’t – are compelled to refer to her simply as Anna. She has risen to shorthand nomenclature by virtue…

Victoria Beckham thinks being “really thin” is an “old-fashioned attitude”. The former Spice Girls singer – who has sons Brooklyn, 23, Romeo, 19, Cruz, 17, and daughter 10-year-old Harper with husband David Beckham – is known for her slender frame, but she believes women today are keen to look “healthy and curvy” and she loves the body confidence she’s seen on display while in the US. She told the new issue of Britain’s Grazia magazine: “It’s an old-fashioned attitude, wanting to be really thin. I think women today want to look healthy, and curvy. They want to have some boobs – and a bum. The curvier you are, the better my VB Body dresses look. “Every woman wants a nice, round, curvy bottom, right? For that, you need a really…

The As It Was singer has found having therapy very helpful because it has stopped him from “emotionally coasting” and he’s learned to take the time to appreciate the moments he should celebrate, even though it means he’s also hit “harder” by anything “bad” that happens. He said: “I find therapy to be a really good example of it, because I feel like for a really long time, I kind of emotionally coasted. I didn't really feel anything. And we’d go through real highs in the band and stuff, and it would always just feel like a relief. Like, ‘Oh, we didn’t fail. That feels like a massive relief.’ “I never really felt like I celebrated anything. And I had a great time. “And I think sometimes, with therapy as…