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...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...The six pairs of Sauvignons for our blind tasting were chosen by wine scientist Jamie Goode of wineanorak.com, who has studied Sauvignon Blanc in considerable scientific detail, and Rebecca Gibb, one-time...
...— And a primer on Mayweather v McGregor (Jack Slack) — China has a struggling industrial heartland of its own (Michael Schuman): There are too many unproductive, debt-laden factories that are losing...
...Thankfully, “the V&A this year is having a bumper year. It’s 16 per cent up year on year, which is a lot of visitors to be up”....
...The clock was the talk of last year’s Masterpiece, and is now owned by the V&A. How does this diffident, shy character work such magic?...
...Last night, the trailblazers of the British luxury fashion industry gathered at the V&A for the 13th annual Walpole Awards....
...This year she was immortalised in the video game Grand Theft Auto V, shot the indie film Kids in Love and reportedly has a part in the adaptation of Martin Amis’s London Fields....
...Twenty-two London designers made a contribution and the jackets were exhibited at the V&A then auctioned in aid of the Prince’s Trust....
...That photo was one of a series by Julius Shulman (1910-2009), the greatest and smoothest snapper of the emerging Los Angeles modernism....
...I worked at the V&A, in the department of education and science, and then as an office junior for a firm of chartered surveyors. Then I went to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama....
...Before joining Gibbs & Bruns, Ms Patrick was a law clerk to Judge John R. Brown, US Court of Appeals....
...Titled “Gibbs Hall”, it is just 5” x 8.5” but the intensity of mood and tone, its lightless black windows burrowing into crumbling, red-flushed brickwork, make it desirable at £15,000....
...Looking west… “I like the US - while it may not have a v-shaped economic recovery, as many forecast, its banks are undergoing expansion, and I expect interest rates to stay lower there for longer....
...This is one of the factors that will likely ensure a V-shaped profits recovery into 2010 even as the local UK economy remains one of the most fragile in the G20....
...“V-shaped” recoveries, in which employment comes roaring back, take place only when there’s a lot of pent-up demand....
...Taylor and Hill were frequent opponents in England v Wales matches and team-mates once – in the Lions’ mauling of Western Australia in 2001....
...Corrugated sheet was used for buildings as diverse as the Brompton Boilers (the forerunner of London’s V&A) and a weird ballroom for Balmoral....
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