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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....
...When Saleem was designing a mosque in Hackney a decade ago, he turned to the Islamic displays at the V&A for inspiration....
...Designed for Swedish glassworks Orrefors in 1957, Äpplet has a place in design history – the V&A museum has one in its collection....
...“I’m extremely nosy and want to be involved in everything,” says Nick Wakeman, founder and creative director of Studio Nicholson, sitting in her neatly turned-out Hackney flat....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...You can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...It’s essentially the wardrobe of any trendy millennial living in Hackney....
...John Hackney slaps a clay disc on a mould, secures it with a beefy palm then spins his table towards the jaws of a pressing machine....
...This Saturday, she will unveil They Burn Witches Don’t They, a collection of 30 pieces, half of which were handmade by Hogg alone in her Hackney studio....
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...When curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum visited, they selected, along with five other pieces, a miniature replica of the bed made for cats that will go into the collection of V&A East, which opens...
...Gavan Duffy (Catholic) . . . vain and self-sufficient, likes to hear himself talk.”...
...During the country’s civil war, she escaped to London as a refugee aged 14, and spent her teenage years in Hackney with her mother and sisters....
...The statue stands high up in an alcove above the alms houses in Hackney, north-east London, which Geffrye built and where the museum has its home....
...The collection was unveiled at Colour Factory in London’s Hackney Wick in a show of support for a local music venue....
...The laser-cut plywood stools are neat too, their V-shaped legs an echo of the stitching in the bellows, a detail picked up again in the delicately pierced patterns of the window shutters....
...We emerge from the backstage spaces into the kitchen, built in a V-shape, pushing out into the dining area like the prow of a ship....
...“I love the V&A, and I love imagining the curiosities they once held,” says Courtauld. “The narratives are extraordinary,” says Speake....
...Hackney Wick, 10 minutes or so walk away, is a former industrial area now home to artist studios, small galleries and cafés, with a canal on which narrowboats lazily push through carpets of algae....
...The artist Grayson Perry’s Brexit vases, which have gone on display in a different part of the V&A, offer a sophisticated variant of the same approach, drawing on crowd-sourced suggestions from Remainers...
...Hirai works in the same Hackney studio complex as ceramicist Ikuko Iwamoto....
...In the UK, they visit the V&A museum, Michelin-starred restaurants, Shakespeare’s Globe theatre and Blenheim Palace....
...He’ll soon have a boss to report to — CME chief Terry Duffy — and the fine wine cellar he has kept at HQ for years will have to move....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...Over the canal, the residents of Hackney Wick view proceedings with a degree of cynicism....
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