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...“Guests want to know the name of the cow,” says Rocket director Charlie Grant Peterkin....
...Mosaic may be a “niche” medium, says Jacobi, the school’s director, but it is quietly thriving....
...“Childhood is the creative nerve centre of what it means to be human,” says Helen Charman, director of Young V&A....
...products and rococo art to the beginnings of a children’s museum, a mission which was concretised by V&A director Roy Strong in the early 1970s....
...“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....
...In a statement, Moooi said Chiave’s role as “co-creative director” made him second-in-command at the studio....
...Stanley was subsequently able to identify 37 of the V&A’s tiles as having originated from the Çinili Hamam....
...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....
...And a show of the marbles from Rome’s Torlonia collection....
...The director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram Hunt, has also been outspoken on the matter....
...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....
...Forty years ago, the Ikon’s director, Jonathan Watkins, was blown away by the Italian’s vision on a trip to the National Gallery....
...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....
...Yet the building, with its dim hallways and expansive, marble-floored rooms inside, occupies an enviable location....
...The People v Harvey Weinstein has been rife with drama. Women have told harrowing stories, choking through sobs....
...The starting point for the Belgian artistic director’s runway debut for autumn/winter 2019 was a table....
...Crucial to the new attribution was Jennifer Scott, Holburne’s director at the time (now director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery)....
...Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova danced for the party in the house’s opulent Marble Saloon....
...Offered a choice of the V&A’s galleries, he chose to site the piece under the sandstone pilasters and carved marble angels of the 15th-century chapel from the Santa Chiara convent in Florence....
...A reminder that we usually have a tighter grip on our marbles. But it is the Americans who really love Downton Abbey....
...It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
...Givenchy’s new flagship, designed under the direction of its artistic director Clare Waight Keller, occupies a block on the opposite corner....
...genius underpin the [final] perfection in marble”....
...Rory Hyde, curator of contemporary architecture at the V&A Museum, describes it as one of the architectural masterpieces of the 20th century....
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