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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....
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...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....
...Mr Hollands stresses that investors should not select a family-backed trust on the strength of its name alone, but on how well it might suit their wider objectives....
...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....
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...Then the Duke produces my favourite royal comment in this marvellous, addictive book: “Funny shape for a country, Holland. Damn funny shape.”...
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...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...
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