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...from Henry V, “Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood”, an exhortation to action....
...This month, it’s Dutch National Ballet’s turn to throw its hat in the Forsythe ring, with a triple bill that is part of the country’s Holland Festival....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...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....
...“It will have performance spaces and rehearsal rooms; it’s next to Westfield Stratford and the V&A East – it’s going to be a cultural quarter almost,” says Bargh....
...Studio Tudor medium earthenware vase, £225, matchesfashion.com The Backward Vendor leather Hubbard Basket V, £2,880, thenewcraftsmen.com Brunello Cucinelli hourglass timer, £400, harrods.com Jil Sander...
...It’s the holiday season in Moscow, where the city has put up symbols of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine outside the entrance to Gorky Park: the Latin letters Z, V and O in throbbing neon, looming over...
...The world’s big museums, including the V&A in London (which is building a large accessible archive in the Olympic Park with architects Diller Scofidio & Renfro), seem to have suddenly, collectively, decided...
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...Or Rose Uniacke, who did the Beckhams’ evolved Holland Park house. I heard about what sounded like huge changes....
...One example is Sluishuis in IJburg (also known as the IJ), an inverted V-shaped building that forms the centrepiece of a new residential neighbourhood in North Amsterdam built on artificial islands, with...
...; an ivory fan from Japan the size of my fingernail; a silk handkerchief in a box inscribed “This token of affection Take, and keep, for the Sender’s sake”; a minute pair of clogs from Holland; a mermaid...
...Some analysts anticipate recoveries that are V-shaped on a graph, others predict a U-shaped or L-shaped pattern....
...V&A, Cromwell Rd, SW7 (vam.ac.uk). The Wolseley, 160 Piccadilly, W1 (thewolseley.com)...
...You see it as you emerge from Rotterdam Centraal station, redesigned and re-opened in 2014, with its soaring V-shaped roof....
...He has sources around half of them from outside Cuba — from doctors, architects and enthusiasts in the US, Canada, Holland, Switzerland and Norway, among other countries....
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
...Dawn Holland: There is limited scope for further stimulus via monetary easing....
...On the Herengracht canal E&V is selling a five-bedroom house for €2.1m. Sotheby’s International is selling a four-bedroom house on Prinsengracht for €4.95m....
...Then the Duke produces my favourite royal comment in this marvellous, addictive book: “Funny shape for a country, Holland. Damn funny shape.”...
...Searching for more about the crucifixion portrait of the US philanthropist Fred Holland Day, I find this caption: “In 1898, after some months of frugal eating, and wearing a crown of thorns, Fred Holland...
...The night of the Holland v Spain World Cup final in 2010, Karim El Ahmadi sat on a café terrace in his hometown Enschede dressed in orange, cheering on his fellow Dutchmen....
...West Kensington’s arrival has been catalysed by the move of the Design Museum from Butler’s Wharf to Holland Park, a final acknowledgment that while London’s creative infrastructure may lie to the east of...
...Under the deal Aramco Overseas Company B.V., a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, will buy Gunvor’s stake in the Maasvlakte Olie Terminal, which the trading house acquired last year as part of a deal to buy a refinery...
...“I saw it at the Serpentine, and then at the V&A, where [curator] Mark Haworth-Booth had bought some 30 works for the museum’s collection....
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