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...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...Studio Nicholson has, since it was founded in 2010, garnered an army of fans – Jessie Buckley, Emma Thompson and Cillian Murphy have all worn Wakeman’s designs, as did Cate Blanchett’s very stylish, very...
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...My favourite building is the V&A. I had the chance to work on Tim Walker’s Wonderful Things exhibition in 2019, and spend a lot of time there....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Designed for Swedish glassworks Orrefors in 1957, Äpplet has a place in design history – the V&A museum has one in its collection....
...the director Emma Cooper....
...On the other side of town in Barlaston, Kate Turner, chief curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, has retrieved a leather-bound ceramic pattern book from the company’s archives....
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Pop spoiler, I’m working on a project with a colleague, Emma Jacobs, about commuting and we’re seeing the same data worldwide....
...into their own offerings — Charlotte Knowles sent out dresses and leggings in damask-print jersey, while Chopova Lowena repurposed vintage textiles featuring fairytale forest scenes reflecting designer Emma...
...And Emma Goldman, the anarchist writer who challenged traditional gender roles was eventually expelled from the country....
...The Korean Wave” exhibition at the V&A Lola Shoneyin Writer and festival organiser by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lola Shoneyin’s subversion is deliciously sly, her humour mordant, her eyes pitiless and...
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com....
...Qing-dynasty artworks round off a serene dining experience. 1037 Yuyuan Road, Changning District, Shanghai 200085 SS Wild & The Moon, Dubai (also Amsterdam and Paris) Founded by plant-based concept store owner Emma...
...Designers Emma Chopova and Laura Lowena, who already have a considerable industry following, made their catwalk debut with a fun, eclectic — if not universally flattering — mish-mash of cartoon-drawn shirts...
...His designs – worn by Harry Styles, Sam Smith, Iman and Emma Corrin – include architectural suits, pussy-bow blouses and tiered dresses....
...As ever, reach out to us with your thoughts (imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com). Thanks, and happy reading....
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...As the CBI boss Tony Danker said in a tough speech today, measuring the UK’s long-term prospects by the speed of the post-Covid bounceback — the upside of a V-shaped recovery — is kidding ourselves....
...Ingenuity had reached Mars attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover, which had left Earth on an Atlas V rocket in July 2020....
...Additional reporting by Emma Zhou in Beijing, Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai, Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong and Michael Stott in London...
...His wife Emma is the daughter of Sir Mark Tully, a renowned BBC India correspondent....
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