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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....
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...(Neither William Morrow nor the History Channel responded to requests for comment.)...
...Also, William Shakespeare’s birthday celebrated Wednesday North Macedonia: presidential election first round UK: former Democratic Unionist party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson appears in court in Newry...
...of songwriting introduced to Bowie by the writer William Burroughs....
...Until August by Gabriel García Márquez (Viking/Knopf)Before his death in 2014, the legendary Colombian writer was at work on a novel he decided should never be published....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...The last time they had met was 1998, thinks Cox, with Elton and David. What was that like? “Nothing untoward.”...
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...Co-owned by David Beckham, Inter Miami will play 17 matches at home at DRV PNK Stadium (and 17 away), with their final regular season game on October 19 against the New England Revolution....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...On the TV studio set, David Harewood’s bullish Buckley and Zachary Quinto’s feline Vidal square up, both bristling with a sense of their own rightness....
...David Hockney stands pensively beside a portrait of his own father, while Rudolf Nureyev sits in his chair, slightly tense....
...William Kentridge Contemporary exhibition of the year was the Royal Academy’s William Kentridge....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...William Hurt had a dark-star twinkle and the looks of a preppy fallen on moments of self-doubt: blond, lean and broodingly handsome....
...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....
...The “Star of Texas formation” (five guards) along with the “Star of David” (six) are the safest protection....
...Puzzle 2460 David Howell v Simon Williams, Bournemouth 2012. White to move and win. First prize was stake, and White’s queen was attacked. Can you find Howell’s decisive sequence?...
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...David Souter, another HW Bush nominee, often sided with the court’s liberal wing as he neared retirement in 2009. In contrast, Thomas has always been the court’s most reliably conservative vote....
...School, is the daughter of the family who were the sole agents of Whatman paper, which was considered the best handmade paper in the west for decades (the favourite of JMW Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, William...
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...You can reach the fintechFT team at Imani.Moise@ft.com or Sid.V@ft.com. Your thoughts and suggested topics for coverage are always welcome. Thanks for reading....
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