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...from Henry V, “Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood”, an exhortation to action....
...This month, it’s Dutch National Ballet’s turn to throw its hat in the Forsythe ring, with a triple bill that is part of the country’s Holland Festival....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...The works of art that changed everything for me were by Dieter Rams, who did a lot of work for Braun....
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...“It will have performance spaces and rehearsal rooms; it’s next to Westfield Stratford and the V&A East – it’s going to be a cultural quarter almost,” says Bargh....
...Studio Tudor medium earthenware vase, £225, matchesfashion.com The Backward Vendor leather Hubbard Basket V, £2,880, thenewcraftsmen.com Brunello Cucinelli hourglass timer, £400, harrods.com Jil Sander...
...It’s the holiday season in Moscow, where the city has put up symbols of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine outside the entrance to Gorky Park: the Latin letters Z, V and O in throbbing neon, looming over...
...The world’s big museums, including the V&A in London (which is building a large accessible archive in the Olympic Park with architects Diller Scofidio & Renfro), seem to have suddenly, collectively, decided...
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...Or Rose Uniacke, who did the Beckhams’ evolved Holland Park house. I heard about what sounded like huge changes....
...One example is Sluishuis in IJburg (also known as the IJ), an inverted V-shaped building that forms the centrepiece of a new residential neighbourhood in North Amsterdam built on artificial islands, with...
...His semi-abstract drawings are now considered works of art in their own right and have been exhibited in London’s V&A Museum....
...; an ivory fan from Japan the size of my fingernail; a silk handkerchief in a box inscribed “This token of affection Take, and keep, for the Sender’s sake”; a minute pair of clogs from Holland; a mermaid...
...Read more Germany’s government is under pressure to disclose the details of conversations between deputy finance minister Jörg Kukies and former Wirecard chief executive Markus Braun, as the fraudulent...
...Markus Braun, an Austrian citizen, gave himself up to Munich police and has been released from custody after a €5m bail....
...Some analysts anticipate recoveries that are V-shaped on a graph, others predict a U-shaped or L-shaped pattern....
...NYSE v Nasdaq: may the best board win Next to the Red Sox and the Yankees, Nasdaq and NYSE have one of the most longstanding bitter rivalries in America....
...V&A, Cromwell Rd, SW7 (vam.ac.uk). The Wolseley, 160 Piccadilly, W1 (thewolseley.com)...
...You see it as you emerge from Rotterdam Centraal station, redesigned and re-opened in 2014, with its soaring V-shaped roof....
...He has sources around half of them from outside Cuba — from doctors, architects and enthusiasts in the US, Canada, Holland, Switzerland and Norway, among other countries....
...Wernher von Braun, the scientist whose team was building the Saturn V rocket that fired the Eagles into space, used a system called Monday Notes, urging engineers to submit one-page reports for review at...
...The chief scientist was Wernher Von Braun, a controversial figure — his complicity in the slave labour that built the V-2 missile is debated — but also an engineering genius and a tireless proselytiser for...
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
...Dawn Holland: There is limited scope for further stimulus via monetary easing....
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