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...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...As Mary Norton knew, the value of small things is a matter of perspective: for a Borrower, a thimble is handy for warming up soup and a teazle makes a very good broom to sweep the cobwebs away....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...Mr Muromachi appears committed for now: “My biggest responsibility is to achieve a V-shaped recovery in the next financial year,” he says....
...Last year, a Google car rounded a corner to find a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck with a broom in the middle of the road....
...Roy Strong was the new and doubtless beautifully designed broom that swept through the National Portrait Gallery, then the Victoria and Albert Museum, and changed government thinking, albeit briefly, on...
...… Lighting There was an extraordinary range of lighting this year, including innovative new styles such as UFO-esque illuminations from Design by Mai, or the kaleidoscopic marble lighting in Lee Broom...
...But by being resourceful – depositing memories on a crack in the floor or on a rusty broom handle – he makes it feel “as grand as a power station”....
...The V&A will be opening new staircases so visitors can view the structure from various angles. The V&A will be home to a number of events and installations during the festival....
...As a girl, Matilda had married the Holy Roman Emperor, Heinrich V, and after his death in 1123 she was married off to Geoffroi of Anjou (called “Plantagenet” from his broom-flower emblem, the name given...
...Chrysler will promote both the vehicle and the plant as evidence of the fresh broom that has swept through its operations since its emergence from bankruptcy protection a year ago with the Italian group...
...To complete a set of mould-breaking innovators, the Northamptonshire airfield is also home to engineer and motorcycle-maker Mick Broom, who has spent the past 25 years manufacturing the Hesketh V-twin motorcycle...
...Consider UK artist Susan Collis’s wooden broom....
...“But this one,” he said, tearing out a sapling of pretty, yellow-flowered broom, “doesn’t belong here at all.”...
...Vin & Sprit, which distils it, looks set to be sold at some point by Sweden’s new-broom government. V&S has always looked an odd asset for a state that generally frowns on alcohol consumption to own....
...And the Vining Broom company was bought up, moved out of town and closed in the space of a decade....
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