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...Next month, the estate unveils Wedding Cake, a ginormous 12m pink, green, blue and yellow fantasia constructed from 25,000 handcrafted ceramic tiles....
...In the past, he’s described every collection he designs as a different chapter in the same book. “There’s something freeing in the ability to turn the page and begin again....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Richard Batterham: Studio Potter, which was published alongside a new exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...As she stood in the dark on the pavement, Sarah tried in vain to book a taxi....
...Paul Richardson’s new book ‘Hidden Valley: Finding Freedom in Spain’s Deep Country’ is published by Abacus (£20) Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Another laments: “The sanctions against me are like the yellow star the Nazis had for the Jews.”...
...Frey was born in Switzerland and briefly, in the 1920s, worked for Le Corbusier in Paris....
...Visitors to the V&A can still peep through its window into miniature glass-painted scenes from nature, illuminated by candles, which the young Gainsborough artfully placed behind a light-diffusing silk screen...
...His address book of collectors reads like a Who’s Who of European nobility and style doyens, from the late Nan Kempner to Annette de la Renta and Valentino Garavani....
...Since the afternoons have been plunged into winter darkness, I’ve been enjoying a warm yellow-orange glow. For Friday-night drinks, however, reds, blues and pinks up the ante....
...Instead look to Marianna Kennedy, who makes beautiful rollers using book cloth and horsehair fabrics. The book cloth Kennedy uses comes in fabulous colours from lemon yellow to azalea pink....
...Books and artefacts collected on her travels line the shelves behind her....
...The latter he intends to use in a variation on Shanghainese drunken chicken, where instead of steeping the bird in yellow wine for a week, Calvert will use Vin Jaune from the Jura....
...From Julian Fellowes to Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum, they are full of interest....
...His semi-abstract drawings are now considered works of art in their own right and have been exhibited in London’s V&A Museum....
..., and it has elicited complex responses, most of which would have been better suited to books....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...I spent my days looking at books on faraway cultures, craftsmanship and patterns.”...
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
...Sir Ian said visitors should expect to book ahead rather than join the long queues that used to snake towards South Kensington Tube station in the summer....
...Book a room that looks out over the Danube and the city’s famous Chain Bridge....
...The book contains hundreds of images, many not on show at the V&A, including surrealist shots from his Alice in Wonderland series for the 2018 Pirelli calendar, featuring an all-black cast of starry names...
...It is not clear who first experimented with incorporating its oxides in glass to obtain green and yellow tints but the earliest objects date from the 1820s....
...Upgrade Big Yellow Group to Buy with unchanged TP of 1096p. Last month’s equity raise highlights a proven and consistent formula to drive EPS growth....
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