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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....
...On its northern edge is Place de la République — centred on the statue of Marianne, the personification of the French Republic....
...“Ljubljana was a sleepy place, almost entirely unknown even 15 years ago to foreigners,” says Milicevic. “It’s now experiencing some well-deserved attention.” Tourism has boomed in the city....
...It’s a place to lose yourself in pattern and print, get a first glimpse of French and international design, and take in the city’s antique troves and markets en route....
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...V. About two dozen people attended the final hearing in Ganieva’s civil action against Black, in a harshly lit room inside an Italianate office building in Tribeca. It was May 2023....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Who Rettie Apartment, New Town, £565,000 Where On Drummond Place, a street of late-Georgian homes built around a residents’ garden in the north of Edinburgh’s New Town....
...Very different is Noriyosha Morimura’s Television House in Japan’s Suita City, a high-tech dwelling set on a V-shaped base designed to isolate the structure from tremors....
...She says she prefers to play in “inconceivable places” rather than in the capitals of the world, where she will be “judged”....
...Upstairs, the gains: Life Between Islands, a rowdy, engrossing, all over the place multimedia survey....
...As Jean-Christophe Babin, Bulgari’s group CEO, told me: “Place Vendôme is the high-jewellery centre of Paris, and therefore of the world!”...
...It has a place in Parisian popular culture as the city’s only “la Poste” that stayed open nights....
...The opening scenes, which take place in Israel and the Palestinian territories, are caustically humorous with a sinister edge....
...I feel a little out of date with the city now, so the places I love are quite nostalgic. The Waverly Inn was my local; it’s slightly subterranean and very cosy with murals on the wall....
...They still live in the same Milan apartment she grew up in, where they have raised two sons. The early years of their relationship have been described as “volcanic”....
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...The People v Harvey Weinstein has been rife with drama. Women have told harrowing stories, choking through sobs....
...When I do eat Hungarian food, my favourite place to go is Biarritz, in District V, right next to the parliament building....
...As Hong Kong’s worst political crisis in decades rattles on into its ninth month, some are asking: can Shenzhen take its place?...
...This is emphatically not the place to pick up a discreet trouser suit. Les Suites specialises in head-swivelling, ultra-feminine pieces....
...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....
...The poolsides are quiet in Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront district....
...Where they still have the finance in place, previously agreed sales are creeping through....
...I love all the creative opportunities it offers and it’s a great place to spend the evening too....
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