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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....
...Placing an emphasis on the handmade, her designs were distinguished by their heavier weight and their powdery, almost painterly, matte-grey hue as well as her distinctive symbol, two winged figures with...
...What makes his approach distinctive is that not everything in his estate on the Moon is going to be brand new and man-made....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...“As soon as I cross the river and enter the neighbourhood, I feel its distinctive atmosphere,” he says....
...And still with mature male American writers: a nod for This Train (No Exit, £9.99) by James Grady....
...When he came to the V&A, he saw it as “a place to which the upper classes could go without losing face”....
...There are leather-lined silver bowls and boxes from San Lorenzo, the Milanese silver specialist whose work sits in the permanent collection at the V&A; ebony-edged maple-wood trays and picture frames from...
...Another distinctive feature of uranium is its radioactivity....
...The collapse of a €5bn property fund run by the bank in 2009 led to the arrest of Mr Meinl on suspicion of fraud....
...But most distinctive of all are the three-storey slices cut out of the tower’s corners at two levels....
...Now entrenched in Olympia, London’s distinctive Art Deco exhibition centre, 100% Design used to be in nearby Earls Court....
...(Among the palace hotels of the Right Bank, the Crillon became the headquarters of the military command for greater Paris; the top brass installed themselves at the Georges V; and the Continental was home...
...Reginald and Arthur had closely studied antique glass and made a decision to revive the 18th-century method of glass cutting, which involves incising “V” shaped grooves with two separate cuts rather than...
...While they approach each new project on its own merits, and shun superfluous styling, there is still a distinctive Bouroullec look, albeit a highly nuanced one....
...About a third of the 2000 sq ft floating home is taken up by the train car which was sliced in half and set in a ‘V’ shape on top of a concrete base....
...Savoy in London, the Plaza in New York and the George V, Paris....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...In spite of the random juxtaposition, they all seem distinctive. He has a “senior moment” when he forgets the artist’s name for a streaky multicoloured painting....
...Sir Frederick Ponsonby, keeper of the privy purse – or financial manager – to George V, said in 1922 it was “an essential part of the constitution that the sovereign should be dependent on parliament for...
...“Why shouldn’t a launderette be as distinctive as a trophy cultural project like an art gallery?” asks Thomas Heatherwick....
...The manipulative Henry V was no longer quite the hero that Laurence Olivier had portrayed in his patriotic 1944 film....
...With her sinuous, long-flowing tresses and her sensuous, scantily clad form, she is one of the most distinctive images of the late 19th and early 20th century Jugendstil – the predominantly German and Austrian...
.... $22,000. www.macklowegallery.com v Etagère English The étagère emerged in France in the mid-18th century and essentially evolved from small occasional or side tables to which additional tiers (above...
...The property developer and his wife are both learning to fly the two-seat Spitfire mk IX he bought for £1.7m....
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