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...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...In England the designer William Kent was later said to have “leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden”. Le Nôtre had jumped it 60 years before, in France, not Oxfordshire....
...The stage is transformed into 1800 Rome under Jonathan Kent’s direction....
...This was a state-of-the-art residence: Walpole also contracted William Kent, the most sought-after architect of the day – and lavished funds on decorative splendour crafted by an army of European artisans...
...The fiction of writers such as William S Burroughs and JG Ballard seemed to offer an approach that gave the viewer a way in....
...It has allowed the Bodleian to hire a curator of photography for the very first time, who will be able to marshal a huge and disparate holding that ranges from William Henry Fox Talbot’s personal archive...
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Well, not exactly gnomes but a ceramic leprechaun and his wife in one of two wooden temples built by the Bannermans, of whom the King has said, “[They are] worthy heirs to William Kent [one of the 18th century...
...The garden gives a fascinating sense of the change from this classical formality to a more natural English look, achieved in the 1720 by two geniuses, Charles Bridgeman and the delightful William Kent....
...It retains several of its original temples and architectural features and copies of original statues, all integral to the garden since its re-landscaping by its maestro, William Kent, from the late 1730s...
...Aptly, they located it round the fine Gothic house at Rousham, in Oxfordshire, best known for its Georgian landscape garden, a masterpiece by William Kent, whose traces are an essential visit for anyone...
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...From Julian Fellowes to Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum, they are full of interest....
...Designed by William Chambers (whose pagoda at Kew survives) it was a decorative, orientalising building framed by a pair of minarets and capped by a dome with a crescent moon on top....
...For my Paris hotel project, last year I designed a mirror inspired by William Kent’s ornate gilt-wood pieces, recreated in simple off-white painted MDF, to which I added decoration in black paint....
...Copper Rivet Distillery in Kent makes an excellent strawberry gin and a sloe gin aged in oak barrels....
...Chris Coleman, Cheltenham, England; Mark Huggins, Buckinghamshire, England; Neil Woolhouse, Wakefield, England Polymath 1,045: Jane Rowe, Cheshire, England Crossword 16,302: Jennifer Burdon, Paris; Kevin Fox...
...Over them all presided those ultimate Euro imports, William and Mary from the Netherlands. They loved baroque landscape gardening....
...The artist and designer William Kent, the inimitable “Kentino”, was another frequent visitor, as was Pope’s beloved Great Dane, Bounce, who was almost as tall as the hunchbacked poet....
...Former AT&T executive William Smith will step in as interim chief executive....
...William Taylor, Ms Yovanovitch’s successor in Kyiv, and George Kent, a senior state department official, appeared in a five-hour session before Congress on Wednesday....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...Hale is notable for her jurisprudence on “human rights in its broadest sense”, says Erika Rackley, professor of law at the University of Kent....
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...Val Williams and Karen Shepherdson are the curators of “Seaside: Photographed”, Turner Contemporary, Margate, May 25-September 8, turnercontemporary.org....
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