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...Then there is virtual staging, where CGI images can fill a blank room with slick-looking new furnishings....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...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....
...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...
...Arrival announced it would merge with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, another blank cheque company. Arrival may survive to commercialise its delivery van....
...At Joyau, drinking a beautiful 2020 Maison En Belles Lies Aligoté as trains to Barking rumbled overhead, it seemed I’d found what I was looking for....
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...His preferred dressing gown coats are best worn by taller frames with V-shaped torsos like his, as the syrupy nature of the style has a tendency to drown those shorter in stature....
...They are guileless and innocent, at odds with the cynical, jaded, blank pop-art screen prints he produced in the 1960s, after switching to fine art....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...“The character was starting off very much a blank slate,” Mbatha-Raw says over Zoom from a hotel room in New York. “I’m building Sophie as she’s building herself, as we’re experiencing her on screen....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...Her clothes are more of a blank canvas, conveniently enabling voters to project their own agendas on to her....
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...I mean, a couple of months ago when the Supreme Court made its decision essentially overturning Roe v Wade on abortion, there was a sense that maybe the Democrats could use that or that people would come...
...In a poem inspired by Andrews’ defection, the architect refers to a “belle dame sans merci”. There’s more to discover about this tangled tale. It would make a terrific movie....
...Hippo, a home insurer that went public through a $5bn blank-cheque deal in August, has since fallen more than 60 per cent....
...Fintech company SoFi is to go public in a $8.7bn deal with a blank-cheque company set up by Chamath Palihapitiya, extending a frenzied run of dealmaking by the former Facebook executive....
...EToro, which has more than 20m registered users, will combine with Fintech Acquisition Corp V, the special purpose acquisition company set up by banking tycoon Betsy Cohen, in one of the largest Spac deals...
...Roughly 25 per cent of the outstanding shares in Social Capital Hedosophia V, the fifth Spac set up by Palihapitiya and his partner Ian Osborne that will soon merge with fintech company SoFi, have been sold...
...The film fills in the blanks with plentiful creative licence: notably, a central lesbian relationship....
...In 2020, Saunders’ sculptural work was exhibited in Paris as part of a group show, “Drawing a Blank”....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...Rather, it is intended to be blank, to allow Warner and others to respond at scale — what Van Loon describes as “a canvas for the artist”....
...(Actually, the future is still up for grabs as cockapoos and cavapoos act out a Krays v Richardsons-style battle for control of the capital’s green spaces....
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