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...At Salone 2024 Controvento will also present new designs for Fendi Casa....
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Story design and illustration by Kari-Ruth Pedersen...
...In summertime Rome, the new opening was Casa Balla....
...Leonie Bell, director V&A Dundee, a major design centre that opened in Scotland in 2018, says her organisation faced similar criticism, which is why preview events such as The Factory’s “Arcadia” are essential...
...as the “densely ornamented and whimsical designs” by Matilde Poulat....
...“But it’s nice to be able to do a staircase based on a design that’s been around for 400 years. Leonardo da Vinci did a two-way staircase in the Vatican.”...
...Blue Origin is developing a methane-powered engine, which requires a different vehicle design and fuelling technology....
...Nilani Trent seems taken with Collective Design....
...ULA subsequently signed an agreement with Blue Origin — a Seattle-based engine maker founded by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon entrepreneur — to design a new, methane-powered engine....
...leaf-green and chestnut; Jean Paul Gaultier, who injected his Fair Isle gilet with a nomadic mood courtesy of strips of black fur around the arm holes; and Proenza Schouler, where Fair Isles came cropped, V-neck...
...Perhaps its only downside as a Christmas present is the attendant implication that the lucky recipient would be expected to write all the “thank you” letters this year. £140. www.andersonandgarland.com v...
...And then to finish, choose a tempting dessert from the Pastelería V, run by Nicholas Goendoecs, a Viennese pastry chef....
...www.ragoarts.com v Wine bottle English From around 1640 to 1820 the favoured vessel for keeping wine between the cask and the table was the hand-blown glass bottle – prior to that stoneware flasks had...
...None of these prices seems exorbitant when compared with some contemporary furniture designs....
...“The Modernist Home”, by Tim Benton, V&A Publications, £14.99....
...Koolhaas’s odd, if engaging, Casa de Musica in Porto (which looks something like an upside-down skip from outer space) has been a recipient of Balmond’s structural innovation....
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