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...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...“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...
...With an array of elegant 18th-century furniture (some on loan from the V&A), books, fittings and works by Gainsborough and his contemporaries, the rooms exude a quiet domesticity....
...“I enjoy that I don’t know the answer to why these people are all here,” says Michael Chapin, 85, who played one of George’s childhood friends in the film....
...Do you feel that furniture must always look old and be made of wood? What do these convictions tell the world about you?...
...“The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats” follows seven travellers from the fantastical town of Epicurania on a quixotic journey, hunting unicorns and exotic prey across lush valleys, waterfalls and proud...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...The pair fit in well in this part of town....
...Extra features reveal the extent of the director’s obsessive autobiography — tracing actual furniture and fittings from his parental home to recreate his Mexico City childhood, every item triggering another...
...That exceeded economists’ estimates of 5 per cent growth. But a lot of key consumer discretionary product imports into the US were still lower in June, especially of clothing and furniture....
...The V&A acquired fragments of the building, including the exterior façade and interiors of two flats....
...might well be the band that Mary Chapin Carpenter brought to the Barbican....
...July 2010 The app starts connecting riders with town cars in San Francisco, before going live in New York nearly one year later....
...Leela Meinertas, senior curator of furniture at the V&A, says auction houses have long placed the definite article before a piece to make it sound important and thus worthy of its high price tag....
...Today, I think lifestyle is more about communities: you love the same car, the same kind of furniture, the same type of books. You share values....
...The old Harrods furniture depository on the riverside was converted into 230 flats and 38 town houses in the 1990s....
...Sotheby’s flourishes one of the last major Turners in private hands, “Ehrenbreitstein”; and Christie’s, 14th-century marble lions from the tomb of Charles V of France....
...But it is Biden who has given the hotel interiors their visual identity, filling each room with an eclectic mix of artefacts and furniture, much of it sourced from a brilliant Cape Town store called Block...
...Held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, it showcased the best of contemporary Scottish design and acted as an appetiser for the V&A Museum of Design Dundee, due to open on the city’s waterfront next year...
...Roffredo Caetani, godson of the composer Franz Liszt, married the rich and cultured Marguerite Chapin who multiplied the roses in the gardens, financed a series of famous literary magazines and even in 1940...
...‘The Fabric of India’ runs at the V&A in London until January 10 2016 Photographs: V&A...
...It has nearly 300 pages of photos of attractive people working in lofts, town houses and modern concrete spaces from Helsinki to Brisbane to Sendai....
...His career spanned 60 years and is the subject of a major retrospective at the V&A in London....
...In doing so, at home and abroad he cobbled together the most extraordinary range of influences to make him Britain’s leading architect, furniture designer, theatrical designer and landscape gardener of the...
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