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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....
...Balderton only has one director, Richard Kent, who according to one of Tripathi’s acquaintances is an old friend of the entrepreneur....
...The stage is transformed into 1800 Rome under Jonathan Kent’s direction....
...According to V-Dem, a Swedish research institute, almost three quarters of the world’s population now live in autocracies against less than half a decade ago....
...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....
...Saleem points me toward the mosque in the Old Kent Road, built largely by immigrants from Nigeria: “It was a Victorian pub with a dining room upstairs....
...Henry V would blush. If your truck is capable of more than 56 miles an hour, regardless of what speed you are doing, they can fine you. They love to check your tacho....
...Later evidence showed that the shot, along with others approved in the UK, held up well against the Alpha variant, which was first discovered in Kent....
...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....
...“Dinner for 400 at the V&A, standing reception for 800 at the Natural History Museum — that sort of thing,” he says, rattling off his favourite venues in a wistful tone. Who can blame him?...
...Not exactly fit for the V&A, but it worked just fine in a foyer around the corner from the Gare du Nord....
...The effectiveness data of Moscow’s Sputnik V vaccine have at least been properly peer reviewed, unlike the Sinopharm jab....
...More loans were allegedly given by Cox & Kings to V Hotels, a struggling beachfront property bought by Peter and Urrshila’s father, Ajit, in 2001....
...From Julian Fellowes to Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum, they are full of interest....
...“But places like the George V [in Paris], they like bands to come in and bash it up, as long as they pay for it,” he adds, taking a ruminative puff on his e-cigarette....
...Good evening and welcome to Maidstone Studios in Kent. Wherever you live, whoever you vote for, one of these two men will be prime minister in a week's time....
...Charlie Bibby for the FT Letters in response to this article: Zoos are human-centric — their role in conserving species is not significant / From Damian Aspinall, Howletts Wild Animal Park, Bekesbourne, Kent...
...Just 30% expect a V shaped recovery in the stock market....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Some analysts anticipate recoveries that are V-shaped on a graph, others predict a U-shaped or L-shaped pattern....
...Some artists have even modified video games, opening up the files and changing the code to shape their visual elements and restage iconic photographs, as in Kent Sheely’s World War II Redux (2009), which...
...Birdimiri’s villas — one with six bedrooms, the other with eight — rent for upwards of €8,000 a week, through travel firm Abercrombie and Kent, a testament to the increasingly high-end nature of Elounda...
...And in the V&A collections we have discovered rare documentary evidence of the suit’s past....
...Hale is notable for her jurisprudence on “human rights in its broadest sense”, says Erika Rackley, professor of law at the University of Kent....
...Birdsong is a wonderful soundtrack and often a welcome distraction from the rigours of hiking or cycling up a steep, narrow country lane, a frequent weekend activity of mine in leafy Kent....
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