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...The deal will put Blade into business with Pierre and Andrea Casiraghi, nephews of Monaco’s Prince Albert II, who are shareholders of Monacair alongside Elkann, who runs Italy’s Exor....
...Wandering the Victoria and Albert Museum’s cavernous halls last year, the Palestinian architect and artist Dima Srouji felt overwhelmed....
...From 1968, Peña released a string of albums (32 in 52 years) and fast became a fixture on the international concert circuit: Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, the Royal Albert Hall....
...December 14 to 24; further information and tickets here ‘The Nutcracker’, Royal Albert Hall The Sugar Plum Fairy is back in town....
...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....
...Ultimately, Raine whittled it down to a Qatari group led by Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani and Monaco-based British billionaire Ratcliffe....
...David Bowie’s vast collection of personal items — including flamboyant Ziggy Stardust costumes, handwritten lyrics and the Stylophone used in “Space Oddity” — has been donated to the UK’s Victoria and Albert...
...This is not Saleem’s first collaboration with the V&A....
...He is also a member of the Ocean Elders, a council which includes Richard Branson, Prince Albert of Monaco and Queen Noor of Jordan....
...Reimagined for the sleek, glossy underground hangar of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sainsbury Gallery, the tremendous touring Donatello retrospective arrives in London — the UK’s first show ever devoted...
...Both Sheikh and Pakistani artist Zahoor ul Akhlaq studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, and were astounded by the V&A’s originals after muted reproductions at home....
...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...Prix Pictet Human, 2023 is at the V&A’s Porter Gallery until October 22 Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Stanley was subsequently able to identify 37 of the V&A’s tiles as having originated from the Çinili Hamam....
...And finally To the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sainsbury Gallery, where the tremendous touring Donatello retrospective has arrived in London — the UK’s first show ever devoted to the artist....
...It has 17 gallery spaces, from Los Angeles to London, Zurich and Monaco, represents 103 artists and artists’ estates, and trades paintings worth millions....
...After considering Liechtenstein and Andorra, she approached Prince Albert II of Monaco, who she says is “hugely passionate” about opera....
...I love outsider art, and photographer and writer Albert Grøndahl captured the work beautifully....
...Albert’s mission has always been to change perceptions, he says. “I’ve been trying to boost the attractiveness of Monaco since I took over from my father....
...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...“She gave young women a new visual language, and the space to be themselves,” says Jenny Lister, co-curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s 2019-2020 Mary Quant exhibition....
...The British ceramicist and writer is sitting in a glass-walled room in the ceramics galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, looking at rows of glass cabinets packed with decorative vessels...
...And other kids played the oboe at the Royal Albert Hall. And I was sitting, I was fluffing pillows at DFS sofa store in Beckton next to a sewage works....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
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