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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....
...registered with the Pewterers’ Company and any maker found to be selling substandard wares risked losing their mark and being unable to trade,” notes Angus Patterson, senior curator of metalwork at the V&...
...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....
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...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....
...Likewise Colin Farrell, an actor with the looks of an Adonis who can radiate masculine vulnerability like no other actor on the screen....
...When curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum visited, they selected, along with five other pieces, a miniature replica of the bed made for cats that will go into the collection of V&A East, which opens...
...It’s a destination for high-end, investment-level kimonos, three of which feature in the V&A’s show....
...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...
...Catherine O’Flynn’s first book for children, “Lori and Max” (Firefly Press), is published on September 5 Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...What else we’re reading The People v Harvey Weinstein Only hours after Hollywood partied into the night, Harvey Weinstein hobbled up the steps to a New York City criminal court....
...“Millinery and bows have a long interconnected history,” explains Oriole Cullen, the V&A’s fashion and textiles director, who is currently completing its major retrospective Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams...
...Mr Mueller’s lawyers also said former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s co-operation is “complete”....
...Big-city dynastic corruption (Colin Farrell and dad Robert Duvall sparring over divine-right control of a Chicago district). And race, class, gender....
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Photographs: Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Shepard Trust; Matt Flynn...
...The shadow of Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that allowed for abortion in the US, loomed large. Ireland, it was said, could be a shining light in a worldwide battle against abortion....
...But on the front page of Libero, the English journalist Nicholas Farrell said “the tide is shifting . . . against Germany and tyranny”....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...(NYT) Video of the day Mobile pay: Shanghai v San Francisco Who has the best facilities for mobile phone payment — the world’s tech hub or China’s business capital?...
...But Democrats have already called on the attorney-general to recuse himself from investigations into former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s contacts with Russia, and are now saying Mr Sessions...
...petition is in its early stages, and Elliott’s funds are far from the only ones to object to its filing — a host of Anglo’s borrowers have beaten a path to the Wilmingon, Delaware courthouse, among them John Flynn...
...He is far gentler in the flesh, almost feline, padding around his LA house in his customary V-neck T-shirt and high-waisted trousers so softly that he hardly makes a noise....
...“There is no doubt [that] a failure to get a deal on bank debt would hit the credibility of the government hard as a lot of expectations have been raised on this issue,” said David Farrell, professor of...
...Suddenly I feel a strong urge to listen to a song called “Errol Flynn”, about a woman whose father was off swashbuckling with Old Errol when he should have been at home looking after her....
...However, Brian Farrell, THQ’s chief executive, was bullish when I met him at E3....
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