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...Spending is down sharply on last year, with the most headline-grabbing move so far being the swift unravelling of Jordan Henderson’s ill-fated move to Saudi Arabia....
...“I love that red-hot line between sculpture and furniture,” says Ross....
...Yanagi, Hamada and Leach travelled to the US in the 1950s to popularise the Mingei movement, becoming known as the “Three Musketeers” and, as Kikuchi writes in the exhibition book, triggered a North American...
...I love the decor – a mix of contemporary art, modern furniture, dark wood and soft lighting....
...Space-age design I Designers and furniture makers have been inspired by space exploration for decades....
...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....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...Sitting on a busy stretch of road heading north-east from the city’s train station, the early 20th-century building is imposing but not pretty, surrounded by terraced housing and a community centre characterised...
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...My favourite website is Vitsœ, a furniture company run by a friend of mine called Mark Adams. The website is just so cleanly done; I can’t fault it....
...Until then I have my copy of Love Is Served by executive chef Seizan Dreux Ellis. cafegratitude.com Isabelle Kountoure Hendersons, Edinburgh This is one of the longest-running restaurants in the capital...
...At 9.53pm, Sarah’s train pulled into the open-air platform in the quiet north London suburb of High Barnet, the very end of the Northern Line....
Veteran strategist notes huge mismatch between prices and the dire economic backdrop
...It has a vaulted golden arch at one end, a huge north-facing window in the middle and the Winter Studio, a glass extension over the garden that allowed him to paint almost as if outdoors....
...The furniture is a mix of old and (then) new: 17th and 18th-century pieces meeting bespoke designs by Webb and Morris himself....
...For example, this newer document lists Geos LLC, a Russian private company headquartered in Novorossiysk, as the seller....
...“I think Instagram has levelled the playing field for the more boutique makers,” says Fred Rigby, a furniture craftsman with a workshop in Stoke Newington, north London....
...More desperate options were drawn up, including obscuring the offensive images “with furniture or hanging pictures”....
...There has been a collective eye opening that this could delay things,” said Alex Veroude, chief investment officer for North America at Insight Investment....
Strong earnings and rocketing stock market performance has created risk for shareholders
...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....
...So burn the furniture and lobby for a government cheque....
...“The North Pole was the next venue where he wanted to stage a show.”...
...I have bowls of it around the house, but she makes wonderful jewellery out of hers. lisahalljewelry.com The place I can’t wait to go back to is my house in North Fremantle, Western Australia....
...Companies that were thinking of July or September transactions are now thinking about what they can do to move transactions forward,” says John Chirico, co-head of Citi’s North America investment banking...
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