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...On the other side of town in Barlaston, Kate Turner, chief curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, has retrieved a leather-bound ceramic pattern book from the company’s archives....
...Email me: harriet.agnew@ft.com Five unmissable stories this week Bridgewater Associates is set to cap investments in its flagship vehicle and cut about eight per cent of its workforce in the most significant...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...If you have a shorter neck, choose an open-neck or V-neck style, and wear your hair up. Don’t fancy a tulle skirt?...
...In a mid-1950s essay, Roland Barthes described plastic as “the first magical substance which consents to be prosaic”....
...Roland Mouret, creator of the Galaxy dress, which exploded in 2005 and was worn by everyone from Cameron Diaz to Victoria Beckham, agrees that psychology is key to creating a fashion icon....
...Puzzle 2456 James Aitken v Roland Payne, Whitby 1962. White to move and win. Aitken, 10 times Scottish champion, was also a Bletchley codebreaker. Can you find his sharp sequence here?...
...Puzzle 2443 Roland Scott v Joseph Blake, Edinburgh 1920. White (to play) is queen for bishop up, but can you find his only winning move?...
...The sudden boom in orders last autumn, in the wake of a sharp, pandemic-induced drop, resembled “a very sharp V . . . in China it was a very, very sharp V,” Busch said....
...But I doubt that shape of the share price graph will be a perfect V. The other big V — the virus — has exposed too much vulnerability....
.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...Now, the board and Nawana’s successor Roland Diggelmann, a former executive from Roche, must prove the pay discipline was worth the price of losing an executive who appeared to be making the right moves....
...Lesser-known dealers include the Germans Henry Roland and Gustav Delbanco....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...are sprinkled with yellow Swarovski crystals, bringing both decoration and practicality to the table. artedona.com Antique sterling silver nutcracker by Collins & Co, £1,145 A pair of antique George V...
...Brunswick and Finsbury are global businesses, a tribute to the ambition and drive of their founders Sir Alan Parker and Roland Rudd. These firms see and sell themselves as much more than PR agents....
...My chaperone is Roland Elbert, a process engineer who strains to recall when he started with what was still called Leitz. “It was 1983. No . . . 1981!”...
...Emma Bridgewater mugs? “Er, Emma’s a friend,” he squirms, “but I don’t like crockery which needs subediting.”...
...As head of the Vote Leave campaign, one of the most enjoyable events I did during Britain’s EU referendum campaign was a lunch with Roland Rudd from the Stronger In side....
...Meanwhile Finsbury chairman Roland Rudd is throwing a private dinner at the Villandry St James’s. Guests will include BAE Systems chairman Sir Roger Carr....
...The title of her photograph “Nach Innen/In Deeper” (1999), showing steps leading down to the river Thames, is based on a quote by philosopher Roland Barthes: “To get out, go in deeper.”...
...and Chief Executive, Oper Frankfurt Stéphane Lissner Director, Paris National Opera Charles MacKay General Director, The Santa Fe Opera Joan Matabosch Artistic Director, Teatro Real, Madrid Joseph V...
...And lingerie specialist Chantal Thomass has designed a Roland Garros range that brings the coquette on to court, including polo shirts with satin neck ribbons and a black pleat hem dress....
...Net-a-Porter, which started a dedicated internet bridal boutique in 2009, says its best-sellers still tend to be labels such as Lanvin and Roland Mouret, where prices hover around $5,000....
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