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...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...In contrapposto pose astride a tortoise, “Winged Putto with a Fantastic Fish”, originally part of a fountain, stares out impudently....
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...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....
...“Here, under that high and insolent dome, under those tricky ceilings; here as I passed through those arches and broken pediments . . . and sat . . . before the fountain, probing its shadows, tracing its...
...“Our mission is to dream up and deliver design-led paper products,” adds Atighetchi, who counts the V&A, fashion brand Mother of Pearl, interiors wunderkind Matilda Goad and Gucci-endorsed illustrator Fee...
...Kara Walker: Hyundai Commission (£19.99, Tate Publishing)New York-based artist Kara Walker’s 13m-high fountain, Fons Americanus, a comment on suppressed histories running between continents and standing...
...(I also love Italian gardens, with their fountains, statues, grottoes and pools.)...
...All the V&A will say at the moment is that it “welcomes [the] ongoing discussion”....
...Produced in 1943 while he was at boarding school, these are notable not just for the immense care with which they were written and drawn in fountain pen and crayon but also for the rare glimpse they offer...
...Chang mirrors too motifs in the Giardino Garibaldi opposite: huge banyans with exposed aerial roots, ornamental fountains, busts of Risorgimento leaders....
...The Normal Training School of Art was reinvented as the National Art Training School in 1863 and located in what is now the V&A museum....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...the V&A’s courtyard....
...‘Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear’ is at the V&A, April 16 2016-March 12 2017 Photographs: Sam Shaw/Shaw Family Archives/Getty Images; Catwalking.com...
...Beyond Kapoor’s dirty tunnel stretches Le Nôtre’s superb pond with a fountain of Apollo in his chariot....
...The London-based architecture/art collaborative Muf has chosen to intervene in the V&A’s remarkable Renaissance Galleries....
...The Trevi fountain. La Dolce Vita 30. (i) Eminem (ii) the Rolling Stones had a vocabulary of 2794 words, compared to the Who’s 1794. 31....
...“This is just a sales tactic to fetch even higher prices for the next bronzes,” wrote a user nicknamed Mei De V. “Chinese money is just too easy to cheat!”...
...As Shakespeare observed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act V, Scene 1): “The Lunaticke, the Lover, and the Poet/Are of imagination all compact.”...
...He also showed me how to cut the V-shaped incisions that carved letters are made from. I acquired a sense of where letters had begun....
...In 1847 one such water lily – the giant Victoria amazonica, then named V regia after Queen Victoria – was featured in the magazine, accompanied by several colour illustrations by Walter Hood Fitch....
...Holloway White Allom, the construction company behind the Old Bailey, Chelsea Bridge and the Trafalgar Square fountains, has gone into administration with the loss of 175 jobs....
...There is a riveting narrative of the operation ordered by the “manic-impressive pontiff” Pope Sixtus V to move the 361-tonne Egyptian obelisk from the back of St Peter’s to the front....
...In a window nearby, however, belonging to a store called Vero Moda (www.veromoda.com), was a loosefitting black silk tunic with a V-shaped hem and elastic neckline (£50), which is now in my closet....
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