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...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...Loro Piana Personalisation is key to the brand’s 2024 interiors collection, which will be presented at its temporary space on Rue des Saints-Pères....
...Invented by Henry Cole, founder of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the museum that would become the V&A, Christmas cards have been commercially available since 1843....
...Esh is fastidious about details: jackets come with Savile Row-standard interiors, while both coats and jackets feature couture-style covered buttons....
...II” (2022), a digital fabric lightbox that impugns consumerism and ecological disaster, death rides a composite elephant made of brand logos....
...Memorabilia in the V&A’s exhibition includes racing driver Jackie Stewart’s helmet with its Royal Stewart tartan band; weird personal objects include a Hillman Imp car with entire tartan interior and matching...
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...The resurgence of tapestry can be attributed to a renewed interest in traditional crafts, says fashion historian and co-curator of the V&A’s recent Fashioning Masculinities exhibition, Marta Franceschini...
...net-a-porter.com Vincenzo Romanelli bronze Sea Urchin sculpture, 2018, €7,000 Henry Holland Studio Tudor medium earthenware vase, £225, matchesfashion.com The Backward Vendor leather Hubbard Basket V,...
...There is more, the Silk Room, beautifully top lit, enveloped in green fabric and with some wonderful works on the wall — both Leighton’s own and Renaissance examples....
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...The textile department of London’s V&A museum has sent boxes of fabric scraps to turn into paper, which will then go back to its paper-conservation department, which has “a nice circularity”, observes Frith-Powell...
...I live in Pimlico, conveniently near the Pimlico Road, London’s ur-centre for expensive housey-housey shops, inspired antique dealers-cum-interior designers and people with their own fabric brands....
...“I saw the kimono exhibition at London’s V&A before things closed down – I often go there for inspiration,” she says....
...There was also the “pretty scary moment in 2014” when they suspended a revolving metal, mirrored installation the length of a Boeing 737-700 for BMW in London’s V&A Museum....
...In London, the V&A is undertaking the restoration of an interior by the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)....
...Email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com or follow him on Instagram @lukeedwardhall Find Luke’s masterclass in interior design here....
...Just recently, Drouant reopened following a revamp by interior designers Fabrizio Casiraghi....
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...Once destruction was inevitable, the V&A salvaged several three-storey sections of the façades and the interior fittings of two flats....
...Under the eye of luxury hotel veteran Pierre-Yves Rochon, who designed the interiors of The Savoy in London as well as the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris, the magpie-luxe approach somehow works....
...It is an irony of conservation that over the centuries almost all of the original fabric of a historical structure will have been replaced....
...Her work includes Selfridges’ “Project Ocean” as well as exhibitions at the V&A and the RA....
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