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...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....
...This passion goes back to shooting’s zenith 100 years ago, when success was measured by the size of a hunt’s bag: a party led by George V holds the record for killing 3,937 pheasants in one day....
...In a minute or so, the foremost birds had formed a wide, V-shaped echelon, pointing their way northward up the coast....
...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
...I pair them up to make little stories: a bird and a guitar, or an amber doll and a piece of coral....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...Today the garden is largely as Kahlo left it: prickly pear, sempervivums, bougainvillea, agave, philodendron, sansevieria, bird of paradise, yucca and canna lilies softening the paths wide enough for her...
.... ★★★☆☆ To May 27, donmarwarehouse.com Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial Ambassadors Theatre, London It’s daggers drawn in Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial too and, again, animosity...
...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...
...The consultant from Serbia recently bought a three-bedroom apartment in the Šiška district — a central neighbourhood next to the Tivoli City Park, home to more than 100 bird species and three times the size...
...Sony a7R V, £3,999 @rhodri...
...Twenty years later the trend is gathering pace: the V&A is building an open storage facility in east London and the Boijmans van Beuningen opened its version in Rotterdam last year....
...While studying at university, V was faced with a choice — what to research: birds, amphibians or fish? V and a fellow student were sitting in a dormitory trying to determine their future....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...Luckey named Anduril’s system “RoadRunner” after the classic Looney Tunes bit in which the bird is always quicker than the coyote trying to catch it....
...In one, eight schoolboys cram into a red Mini Cooper, while in another a John Galliano-draped model holds a pair of swans up to one another, like two love birds....
...It is adorned with cherubs, dolphins, birds and saints (all ceramic too), and boasts working water features and a canopy of LED-lit “stars”....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...Northern counties such as Las Hurdes, the subject of Luis Buñuel’s 1933 documentary Land Without Bread, and luscious La Vera, site of the Emperor Carlos V’s monastery-retirement home at Yuste, are best enjoyed...
...“You know when they did that [David] Bowie show at the V&A? For a long time I’ve thought, Pam could do that,” says Lucas. “So in a way, this is a small step towards Pam’s big retrospective.”...
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...For many, the influx of headlines, about, say, some weird nesting bird rediscovered in the Pennines, are a welcome reprieve from the relentless drone of misery and malcontent....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...When Daniel Wiegand was eight, he went on holiday with his parents to the bird islands of Norway....
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
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