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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Until now, architectural historians have focused primarily on European architects working in Africa, such as Britons Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew....
...It emerged that Maxwell had used assets belonging to the Mirror group pension fund to prop up his companies....
...Also in London, the specialists Rudy Capildeo and Tim Maxwell have been brought in from Charles Russell Speechlys to City law firm Wedlake Bell to lead a dedicated art and luxury practice....
...And there are signs of a brewing backlash, both outside the investment industry and inside, as exemplified by the careful support that HSBC’s Stuart Kirk has received after his flamboyant apostasy....
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...The rector of Sandringham, the minister of Crathie Kirk near Balmoral, and the chaplain of the Royal Chapel at Windsor — representing some of the Queen’s favourite residences — will say prayers....
...is due to be sentenced after being found guilty in a sex abuse trial Wednesday Belgium, the Ommegang festival, including a pageant re-enacting the historical entry of Charles V, begins in Brussels UK...
...Tech tools — VanMoof V e-bike Dutch e-bike brand VanMoof today unveiled its entry into the high-speed bike category....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...(FT) Economists are still too upbeat Economists initially, and over-optimistically, embraced a relatively quick V-shaped recovery....
...The other quarter-final matchups on Saturday pit Italy v the Netherlands and Germany v Sweden. The tournament has revealed which countries are most welcoming to women’s sport....
...Time will resolve . . . and we will see a sharp V-shaped recovery,” Mr Son said....
...Metallica didn’t try to make a stadium feel like a club; they made it feel like Cape Canaveral at a Saturn V rocket launch. ★★★★☆ metallica.com...
...(FT) Mayweather v the Justice System The US securities watchdog has targeted its first celebrities who touted initial coin offerings....
...(FT) Woodward v Trump An exposé book by Washington Post’s associate editor Bob Woodward has been a rite of passage for presidential administrations since the investigative reporter first made a name for...
US businesses and America’s allies warn of severe damage from trade war
...(FT) Kansai v Tokyo In the Kansai region of Japan, you stand on the right of the escalator, not the left. Such a difference is small but matters....
...Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, her favourite glass blower, spent more than a year creating cloud-like pendants for the bar and two-Michelin-starred restaurant, as well as the chandeliers for the gargantuan wine...
...From Ottawa, Illinois, the FT’s Lindsay Whipp reports on that state’s competitive race between Republican incumbent Mark Kirk and Democratic rival Tammy Duckworth, a US military veteran who lost both her...
...Lord Denning was delivering the leading judgment in the Court of Appeal in the case of Maxwell v Department of Trade and Industry. Few cases have been so extensively misrepresented....
...It’s advice not lost on Prince William, who was turned out neatly in a crisp white shirt and cobalt-blue V-neck sweater as he left the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital two weeks ago (as opposed to the pale...
...In my study of writing, I read Glyn Maxwell’s On Poetry and asked myself what it takes to be this good. I don’t have that answer yet....
...The Supreme Court would spark national divisions if it repealed Doma, he warned, as it did 40 years ago when it allowed abortion through the Roe v Wade case....
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