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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...The remnants of beautiful mosaics were a faint memory of the luxuries of this palace, of that banquet evening, decadent, drunken, a little crazy....
...The first stop on my journey is a wood-panelled office in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, thousands of miles away from Guatemala City....
...After the thrills of the high Serra this felt a little like a comedown....
...Memphis really is the punk rock of design, which is probably why I like it....
...“We drilled into the rock like a cheese and created this support apparatus,” she says. A state-of-the-art heating-cooling-ventilation system was also put in....
...The name is a knowing wink: Susie is the wife of the Australian goth-rock star Nick Cave and the brand signature channels a darkly prairie, Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic. The Falconetti is its north star....
...Even before the pandemic, most Latin Americans had little faith in their governments....
...In November, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s president, shook markets when he withdrew his nominee for central bank governor and replaced him with a little-known public sector economist....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...Otherwise I might catch a Miami New Drama play at The Colony Theatre, just a few blocks west, or head to The North Beach Bandshell just north of 72nd Street on Collins Avenue to experience the Nu Deco Ensemble...
...Road blocks on fire as protesters throw rocks and sticks at police....
...They put such a lot of love into our little space, and people really like this beautiful retro surf shop that they made for us back in 2001.”...
...Music is a major passion, and his latest collection “Dark Haze” imagined a musician’s stage wardrobe inspired by the appeal of the guitar, and “black rock, punk and funk”....
...Whichever shape the recovery takes — V, W or L — any emissions decline flattens out by the middle of the decade....
...Looking through my tasting notes, I see words such as “pungent”, “stony”, “like licking tarmacadam”, “rocky” and even “hot rocks”....
...But Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s president, is showing little appetite to deviate from his promise to revive the country’s state oil company by ramping up output....
...This is hardly good news for retail investor sentiment in a world of rock-bottom yields....
...Footwear being resold, we think StockX is the leader in this market with gross market value north of $1 billion....
...Richard Portes: Little change for the north, some “levelling down” for London. Adam Posen: Levelling down. Vicky Pryce: There is little chance of levelling up during 2021....
...Related Links:Investors face big call as Mexico’s López Obrador prepares budget — FTWelcome to the AMLO era — FT AlphavilleAMLO v financial markets — FT Alphaville...
...Rock and metal stocks are doing rather better than oil ones on surprisingly robust China trade data....
...The incoming president has shown little sign of changing tact....
...Little suggests 2019’s tough operating environment will change soon. Lenders are being squeezed by low or negative interest rates, weak investment banking revenues and slowing economic growth....
...In its scrappy, early days, the company would let one client — the local craft brewer Big Rock — pay its bill in beer....
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