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...For example, couturier and sustainability champion Ronald van der Kemp — whose label RVDK has been worn by Celine Dion, Lady Gaga and Michelle Obama, among others — has created an almost all-white suite...
...Van der Laan said Douglas “has not declared stores dead”, with the chain planning to open 200 by 2026....
...This follows last year’s landmark Joan Mitchell presentation; Ellsworth Kelly comes next spring. 6....
...The plaster panelling in the salon, for example, is a trompe-l’oeil parchment, hand-patinated by a young Belgian artisan, Mathilde Van der Schueren....
...Bringing up two children in Amsterdam, filmmaker Steve McQueen and his wife, historian Bianca Stigter, sent their oldest daughter to a well-regarded secondary school, Gerrit van der Veen College....
...The works, collected by the late Rotterdam shipping magnate Willem Cordia and his wife, Marijke Cordia-van der Laan, span the 19th century — such as Edgar Degas’s “Le petit déjeuner après le bain” (c1894...
...To my right lay Bosch and van der Weyden. Past the Flemish and Netherlandish galleries beckoned the luminous panels and cryptic gestures of the Gothic art section....
...The walls of the sala blu feature van Dyck and Antonio Maria Vassallo; by the entrance to the library is a Portrait of a Lady by Rogier van der Weyden....
...Gordon studied at the prestigious Van der Kelen Logelain school of decorative painting in Brussels, where students spend six months learning more than 30 types of marbling and some 20 ways to imitate wood...
...“I don’t want to be interesting,” said Mies van der Rohe. “I want to be good.” From the architect who also said “Less is more”, it is one of culture’s finest, and most foundational quotes....
...Van der Velden’s designs come to life at an L-shaped bench, with the typical half-moon cut into it enabling the jeweller to work up close. A tool display board hangs above it....
...Classic Amsterdam, all shined up It’s not new (the original opened 125 years ago), but it’s definitely newly reborn: the Hotel de L’Europe in Amsterdam, owned by the Heineken family, has just emerged from...
...Kroes, a former youth academy player at the club, succeeds Edwin van der Saar, who stepped down following a disappointing season....
...An alternative view of couture came from Dutch designer Ronald van der Kemp, who presented a quirky collection of cocktail dresses and patchwork denim coats made from deadstock materials on mannequins and...
...Frans van Mieris drew a blue taffeta curtain partway across an impossibly opulent floral arrangement by Adriaen van der Spelt. The result is a spectacle of magic....
...Doubles at The Langham, which occupies 13 floors of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark skyscraper formerly known as the IBM Building, (and whose concierge can organise tickets and tours) cost from $445; see langhamhotels.com...
...An underlying story is the tremendous victory of secular emancipation, as still life moved from the medieval margins — props of book, candlestick, cushions in Rogier van der Weyden’s “Annunciation” — to...
...And I talk to Jakobien Van Der Weijden, co-founder of the Microdosing Institute in the Netherlands, about why that practice is gaining in popularity....
...Belgian designer Dries Van Noten created a snuggly down-padded coat incongruously patterned to look like Dresden china....
...In De l’Esprit des Lois, published in 1748, he claimed: “The natural effect of commerce is to bring peace....
...A fine public building, well-used and liked, with a civic presence in its south London setting, it blends influences from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to the Greater London Council’s tough concrete urbanism....
...It’s housed in one of Berlin’s most spectacular buildings — a temple-like construction by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the pioneers of modernism....
...Van der Weij took his invention to Philips with a partner and it was launched at a Berlin consumer electronics fair in 2010....
...Similarly, no creature is too deadly or ugly to escape the jeweller’s oeuvre; witness Bibi van der Velden’s slugs and golden-scaled alligators with tsavorite eyes....
...L’Exhibition[niste], which runs until 26 July at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris, displays past and current designs – including some never seen before – as well as objects highlighting the sources...
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