Hints and tips:
...“It shouldn’t be a folly, it should be something stronger than that,” says the 87-year-old, who bought a book on Georgian follies just the other day. “Shall we start saying it’s a temple?”...
...This is not Saleem’s first collaboration with the V&A....
...In November, the venerated Roman house will open in the City of Lights: the Bulgari Hôtel Paris has (naturally) a mint location on the Avenue Georges V – in the coveted Triangle d’Or – and its usual architectural...
...A Ramadan pavilion was going to be installed in the courtyard of the V&A in parallel to the Biennale installation, a colourful, enjoyably kitschy and postmodern folly designed by Saleem and inspired by Chambers...
...William V Slade New Rochelle, NY, US...
...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...From Julian Fellowes to Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum, they are full of interest....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...Already the Four Seasons George V, which had also planned to reopen on September 1, has delayed the big day for another three weeks....
...It is, in fact, a folly dating from about a decade ago....
...At a hastily assembled parlay, the three explorers agreed to sail immediately for Spain that their king, Charles V, might determine who among them was the official discoverer of a place, roughly the size...
...On one level, Brexit has represented a bonanza for comedy — a seemingly inexhaustible source of folly and hypocrisy to fuel the sketch-writers and columnists....
...The Château de Chambord is unsettling to look at, a folly so grand it’s hard to take in, like something seen in a fever....
...In “Sexual Behavior at Work: Fun or Folly?”, Jennifer Berdahl and Karl Aquino found that only 10 per cent of women enjoyed “ambient sexual behavior” such as sexual joking....
...Their Mortal Remains, like the V&A’s exhibitions on David Bowie and the late 1960s, forces us to judge our own time....
...But even I can see the apparent folly of sacrificing a bishop for a pawn when it doesn’t lead to an obvious chance either to capture a piece of at least equal value or mount a crushing attack....
...Market timing is usually folly and most investors who engage in it do so to the detriment of long-term returns.”...
...By contrast, the V&A explores her acceptance of technical flaws to add energy and character....
...That sardonic elision of animal and human folly is, of course, the crux of “Enter at Your Own Risk”, just as the gold toilet cannot but be read as a swipe at the obscene wealth being flushed through the...
...Nor did I ever hear Brexit framed in terms of the wisdom or folly of one or the other political party....
...First-time readers of the Inferno are often surprised that this famous passage in Canto V, which has inspired poets and artists ever since, is so brief....
...The folly of the ground level display is also clear in the British Museum itself....
...Potts, a leading company law advocate, drew attention to the famous case of Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company....
...There was no stopping the morbid fascination with decay now: landscape designers built ruin-lust follies in gardens, so confident of the resilience of the British empire that they felt safe enough to make...
...If this sounds like an argument for spending vast fortunes on extravagant architectural follies in hard times, it really is. An imbalance of fortunes is inevitable....
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