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...As a girl I’m sure I gazed upon the Parthenon Sculptures — or the Elgin Marbles, as they’re often called....
...London had its moment in 1851 with the Great Exhibition, the ghastliness and excess of which proved the trigger for improving design through institutions such as the V&A....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...On marble and linen-covered countertops, chefs carved chateaubriand, mixed tuna tartare and served seafood on ice....
...Young V&A reopens on July 1, vam.ac.uk/young...
...These include casing surfaces that echo the artefacts’ materials, such as smooth marble or plush fur....
...The V&A’s installation in a single bright, open-plan gallery is spectacular in another way — immersive, modern....
...“It is about black Britain and what it is to be working class,” he says of his Converge gilet, for example, which was acquired by the V&A for its collection in 2021. “It is descriptive of urban life....
...A long V-shaped fissure which cuts dramatically through the backrest, when seen from the front, reveals the silhouette of Batman’s horned mask....
...Whereas a lap-pool swimmer is easily recognisable by their distinctive V-shaped torso (and by the mess of fins and hand paddles they tend to carry around in those black mesh bags), a seasoned open-water...
...Stanley was subsequently able to identify 37 of the V&A’s tiles as having originated from the Çinili Hamam....
...Pyppe floor lamp, €921 Acne Studios wool scarf, £180, mrporter.com Louis Vuitton silk Diamonds V tie, £170 Ralph Lauren Purple Label linen and silk shirt, £320 Smythson leather-bound Chelsea notebook...
...The sober hall near the Bank of England, with its black-and-white-chequered marble floor and its dark wood counters now has the air of ancient Rome after the sack, with City workers baying for cocktails....
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...And a show of the marbles from Rome’s Torlonia collection....
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...Barely a year later, the Gardiners were ready to rebuild – and commissioned the then-fashionable architecture firm Wyeth & King to devise a worthy replacement....
...If I think they’re pieces that are worthy of an archive, I’ll donate them to the Powerhouse Museum, which is our version of the V&A....
...And Bellini’s crystalline “Dead Christ Tended by Angels” repeats Donatello’s treatment of the subject, here in both bronze and marble....
...But this is more than just a slab of Italian marble plonked incongruously on the Avenue Georges V — it is a carefully curated Franco-Italian crossbreed....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...Syson has toggled between the US and UK over the years, popping up at the British Museum, the V&A, the National Gallery and the Met in New York....
...Fulk’s designs for Contessa, the rooftop bar and restaurant, brings all the more-is-more joy you’d expect, from the multi-hued marble floors to the pink velvet banquettes....
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