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...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...Every time the machine swallows a disc, a raw-clay platter emerges on the opposite side....
...There are also branches in Amsterdam and Paris. wildandthemoon.ae AH Mother, Fremantle, Australia Cheese platters, fresh pasta and alternative arancini – this Western Australian restaurant turns treasured...
...single bronze sheet to suggest, through unfolding archways and loggias, drama on multiple levels: executioner at the back, servants at the centre, a foreground where a soldier boldly offers the head on a platter...
...Neither did I troop along to the 1974 game-changing exhibition at the V&A, “The Destruction of the English Country House”, at which the images went on show of more than a thousand country houses, castles...
...Inverted on to a platter, the wobbling gelatinous mass is glorious to behold — glittering, translucent and slippery....
...Obit did not mention Naipaul’s best book: letter from John F May, Bethesda, MD, US Your perceptive obituary of V S Naipaul should have mentioned ‘A Bend in the River’ (1979), which is probably the best...
...Theresa v Jeremy Who won the air war? Conservatives....
...My mind raced for a suitable Indian name — any Indian name — beginning with V. Vikram? Vijay?...
...It was doubtful that Scherzinger had room in her cinched-in look to accommodate anything from the dinner menu (butter-poached breast of corn-fed chicken and a cheese platter from La Cave à Fromage) but perhaps...
...The V&A has quietly been developing a geographical strand of photography shows....
...Christie’s offices 8 King Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 8QT Ploughman’s platter Charcuterie platter Crudités with dips Château Léoube Blanc de Léoube Belu still water Belu sparkling water Bowl...
...Simon Spurr Cashmere V-neck Lightweight luxury. £490, www.mrporter.com 19. Globe-Trotter 30” Centenary Safari Suitcase £910, www.quintessentiallygifts.com 20....
...This platter and cover made of pink transparent and white opaque cristals supérieurs that have been overlaid and then scored by hand with a diamond cutter....
...His current commissions include an installation of 480 vessels on a massive red lacquer shelf within the dome of the new ceramics gallery at the V&A....
...They do not eat off a silver platter in this forest.” It was also striking that in a forest of 300 sq km we seemed to be the only visitors....
...Their modern designs draw on a rich vocabulary of Indian craft traditions while high production values have ensured a presence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the V&A and Musée des Arts Decoratifs...
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