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...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....
...“I love that red-hot line between sculpture and furniture,” says Ross....
...The price of labour wasn’t very high, so even average Danish furniture was very well made compared with Swedish, American or English.”...
...Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva in 1981 is a high point – full of warehouse spaces repurposed for a radical way of living. But it was American cinema that really drove the aesthetic into the mainstream....
...A vast warehouse in Hackney Wick, Aelfred is the latest project from Scandinavian interiors expert Nina Hertig, and specialises in midcentury Nordic furniture, ceramics and glass....
...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....
...The money to incubate Anduril came from Peter Thiel, the controversial co-founder of PayPal, who had also been disavowed by parts of Silicon Valley for his donations to the Trump campaign and for driving...
...The Hong Kong group’s 198 warehouses helped Maersk double the number of sheds it owned that year....
...In New York, the Neue Galerie’s 20th anniversary celebrations continue this month with the stunning collection of its co-founder Ronald S Lauder....
...At the helm is American chef Matthew Kenney, who first launched Plant Food + Wine in Venice Beach back in 2015....
...It’s decorated in the exact style of the real estate agent who sold it to her, since Gold took all the furniture used to stage it....
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...They are deliberately low-key, windowless, generic warehouses surrounded by wire fences....
...New talent is also the focus of two projects supported by the American Hardwood Export Council....
...Many of its derelict factories and warehouses were transformed into cultural, music and community gathering places....
...The story of contemporary Japanese design begins in earnest after the second world war, when the country urgently needed consumer goods as well as American-style furniture and appliances for the US occupying...
...Patio furniture and riding lawnmowers were among the “big-ticket”items that were selling particularly well, according to Home Depot....
...It also houses rare furniture and changing photographic prints, as well as special-edition Tricker’s and Fasciani shoes....
...Taylor Howes, taylorhowes.co.uk....
...PrettyLittleThing is run by Umar Kamani, the son of Boohoo co-founder and executive chairman Mahmud Kamani....
...Any “London v New York” debate is necessarily subjective....
...Kavesh’s workshop is in an old warehouse on the Red Hook pier, which extends from Brooklyn into the Upper New York Bay....
...Americans have also been upgrading their living space, buying more furniture, decor and lighting, while undertaking more DIY projects, boosting demand for tools and materials. Alistair Gray 25....
...The Lloyd Wright office, built for the American department store owner Edgar Kauffmann in the 1930s, is one of the V&A’s 20th century treasures, but the museum has not had enough room to give it a permanent...
...Covestro The German company makes a compound called cardyon, used to create foam for mattresses and furniture....
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