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...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...The new BBC music studios in Stratford are planned to open in late 2025, and will form part of wider efforts to create a new London creative quarter, called East Bank, with the V&A, Sadler’s Wells, UCL and...
...If rice on the chessboard is the most famous illustration of exponential growth, the most famous essay on the topic was published in 1798 by Thomas Malthus....
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...You can get up close and personal with Trajan’s Column at the V&A, or at least with the remarkable plaster cast that’s been part of its collection since 1873....
...“Quite restrictive” is how real estate lawyer Richard Burgos, partner at Bennett Jones, describes the legislation....
...But with its efficiently stylish filmmaking and brutal takedowns, Charles and Thomas Guard’s film is also simply a gripping clockwork mechanism of vengeance-is-mine storytelling (complete with era-appropriate...
...The V&A wisely acquired Thomas Thwaites’s “Toaster Project” — a physical record of his doomed attempts to build himself a working toaster, starting with the search for raw materials....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Andrew Bennett, policy lead at Form Ventures, which advises and invests in UK start-ups, said the imminent cuts to tax credits were “what really matters” to portfolio companies....
...Moving up to the present day, Nigerian-Scottish designer Olubiyi Thomas has created a brand-new tartan for the V&A....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...“Some people are expecting pots,” says Wood, but she highlights this year’s contribution by deaf artist Nina Thomas. “She’s responding to the experience of former deaf workers in the ceramics industry....
...That photographer is Thomas Ruff, with whom H&deM have been collaborating for decades....
...Thomas Heatherwick, its co-designer, at the risk of ignoring the beam in his own eye, told the FT this week that modern architecture has left our cites suffering an “epidemic of boringness”....
...That was the issue confronting the house museum of one of Britain’s most perennially popular artists, Sir Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88)....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...A potential model of the single-engine hypersonic concept vehicle, Concept V, which might be as large as a Hawk trainer jet, was unveiled by the partners at the Farnborough air show in July....
...A number of designers have loaned pieces from their personal collections, including Nigerian Shade Thomas-Fahm, and the estates of Ghanaian Kofi Ansah and Malian Chris Seydou....
...Or being given a Mk V Spitfire and doing a village fête display,” says Romain excitedly. “It’s fantastic.”...
...The Harley-Davidson chief executive’s name still looms over the towering, tubey edifice, which is dominated within by a vaulting nine-storey atrium that Thomas Heatherwick, its designer, once likened to...
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...The new cast is an improvement, although when I went, Russell Thomas was replaced in the title role by Rafael Davila, who performed respectably....
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