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...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Young V&A reopens on July 1, vam.ac.uk/young...
...In the Madejski Garden at the centre of the museum, Queen Victoria, seen on high in a handsome black and gold mosaic frieze, gazes over an arrangement of daybeds, benches and stools, made this year in Karachi...
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...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....
...The pretty scalloped mosaic pattern in the glorious vitality pool — itself a homage to Rome’s bathing tradition — is copied from the Caracalla baths, which Bulgari helped restore (and which is also mirrored...
...Her 17th-century Baroque slab with skulls and leaves picked out in multicoloured mosaic on a marble ground will certainly be hard to miss....
...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....
...Giotto’s “Navicella” mosaic showed Christ walking on the water and St Peter leaving his boat to join him....
...Used to a mosaic of distinct neighbourhoods, Harry might find LA’s range as evocative of home as I do. Or superior to it....
...But the coronavirus crisis is confounding because it looks at once like a mosaic of many previous crises — and also completely new....
...Muf was instrumental in the V&A’s acquisition of an apartment-sized chunk of the demolished Robin Hood Estate; it curated the British Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Biennale....
...Older, unbombed buildings include the elegant, mosaic-adorned Witte Huis (White House) office building, built in 1898....
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...a mosaic foot, made of yellow and white gold tesserae....
...Along the way they became global stars, a combination of their David v Goliath adventure and their supporters’ fearsome Viking-style chanting....
...Brian Gladden, chief financial officer at Mondelez, says his company faces “a competitive retailer environment”....
...(Mosaic) Unhealthy hearts Analysis of data from the NHS Heart Age Test, revamped this week, shows that one in 10 50-year-old men has the heart of a 60-year-old....
...Levete’s design for the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter is a courtyard, a space rather than an object....
...PRIN London is building a mosaic of “Rustiles” — Jesmonite tiles with an oxidised metal-dust surface....
...Some of it, indeed, can be seen at the V&A itself, where mosaic panels on which he worked before his departure to India still decorate the museum’s façade, while his portrait appears in another panel overlooking...
...Simple common sense argues to the contrary… The notion that Uber in London is a mosaic of 30,000 small businesses linked by a common ‘platform’ is to our minds faintly ridiculous....
...Photographs: Rebecca Lupton; Christopher Furlong/360; Craven Dunill Jackfield; V&A/DeMorgan...
...You may encounter a Philip Moulthrop bowl as a mosaic of woods, or a polka-dot array of bundled sticks, set within a dark resin and then turned to expose a dramatic pattern....
...The V&A commissioned Reichardt to mosaic the grand entrance to the museum to accompany the exhibition. Furniture design has historically brushed with politics....
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