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...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Model, Igor V at Tomorrow Is Another Day. Casting, Tiago Martins at Ben Grimes. Hair, Rimi Ura at Calliste Agency. Make-up, Mayumi Oda at Bryant Artists. Photographer’s assistant, Christian Varas....
...There, in the handsome 1930s Amtshaus V government building (lovely lettering over the door), you will find Zürich’s leading poster gallery, Placart, and its immensely knowledgeable owner Tomas Rabara....
...In the Madejski Garden at the centre of the museum, Queen Victoria, seen on high in a handsome black and gold mosaic frieze, gazes over an arrangement of daybeds, benches and stools, made this year in Karachi...
...Her enveloping wool coats and handsome V-neck jumpers, tucked into full skirts, had a cosiness and casualness that made them appealing for the office, something Wickstead said her customers are increasingly...
...With an array of elegant 18th-century furniture (some on loan from the V&A), books, fittings and works by Gainsborough and his contemporaries, the rooms exude a quiet domesticity....
...She was dressed elegantly in a V-neck white linen blouse, white trousers and a pair of trainers. But the signs of her injuries were everywhere....
...William Hurt had a dark-star twinkle and the looks of a preppy fallen on moments of self-doubt: blond, lean and broodingly handsome....
...At the Bargello, the republic’s oldest public palace, “St George” stands firmly, legs apart, handsome, with regular features, knitted brow and grave gaze, vibrant with compressed energy — an emblem of secular...
...Not to mention handsome, sturdy Yeti coolers that will “keep the ice for your gin and tonic cold for the entirety of your trip”, says Brigham....
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...Here she fell hopelessly in love with the “funny, craggily handsome” widower and ex-soldier Walter Morgan....
...The trio of exhibitions stretching from the V&A to the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube also reveals a fearsome curator....
...Similar examples can be found in London’s V&A and the White House, Smith notes....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...But I get the impression that, just occasionally, really V, V, VIPs may be given a glimpse within....
...“It’s like a Shakespeare scene,” said V.S. Naipaul. “Only 300 words are spoken but, goodness, terrific things happen!”...
...But the biggest (v)indicator of the power of the past is the recent resurgence of Cartier as a watchmaker, under the leadership of Cyrille Vigneron....
...He points to a rather elegant fireplace in the corner, greyer in tone, but no less handsome. Of course, one of the main benefits of restoration is cost....
...Our place in the country has an open fire in the sitting room and a log burner in the dining room — both with simple but very handsome painted timber surrounds....
...objects also conspire to thwart Viv in Shoe Lady, E.V....
...Their light and dark V-necked playsuits (I suspect mother-made) are poised between school gym slips and men’s evening clothes....
...The one standout was the V&A, where the handsome paved new courtyard, built with a £2m donation from the family, opened in 2017....
...“I love the V&A, and I love imagining the curiosities they once held,” says Courtauld. “The narratives are extraordinary,” says Speake....
...The final part of the V&A’s handsome and provocative exhibition also looks to the future, in the fantastical shape of the “Pop-Up Next”, a transforming vehicle designed with an electric chassis, a pod and...
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