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...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...This architectural casket combines panels of opaque, milky and translucent amber with fine ivory carving and marquetry and engraved silver-gilt....
...The original pieces, three of which are ceremoniously rolled into our room on a trolley, include a Chinese blue and white porcelain ewer with silver mounts from the 17th century....
...The BBC2 Master Game programme brought international chess to the living room. Success was contagious....
...A 1585 watercolour describes the recent founding of Potosí, Bolivia, and its silver mines, against a mountain background with llamas and herders....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...My favourite room in my house is my studio and office, which is connected to my house with a little bridge....
...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....
...Far from being dull, Carey argues that formality has a silver lining....
...“He arrived in New York and the hotel room wasn’t ready, it was too early, so he went for a walk and had breakfast at Tiffany’s,” she says....
...And better-educated young women are inclined to see their mothers’ shining mahogany dining tables and silver pheasant ornaments as, well, a bit archaic....
...A room of Kahlo’s painful, spine-contorting corsets and braces at the V&A two years ago moved me to tears; so did a brief chapter on Wilcox’s ageing dog....
...There is a series to be hung on a wall — or, as in this room, against Georgian panelling that made me think of marginalia, those scribbles of commentary and response in a text....
...There are leather-lined silver bowls and boxes from San Lorenzo, the Milanese silver specialist whose work sits in the permanent collection at the V&A; ebony-edged maple-wood trays and picture frames from...
...Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough” beneath skies heaving with cherubs are the feeblest late-runners in a genre whose apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V”...
...It’s also my museum day so, fully fed, I’ll go to the V&A – the jewellery collections and the Middle Eastern decorative arts rooms are highlights. By 5pm, I need a drink....
...It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
...I don’t have the complete set, which is in the V&A. But they were incredibly important for my development as a photographer....
...You see it as you emerge from Rotterdam Centraal station, redesigned and re-opened in 2014, with its soaring V-shaped roof....
...This brings us to the market’s great hope of a silver bullet for risk in the form of a trade deal....
...Think of the Hotel George V in Paris — all those glossy black vessels and tight bouquets. Not my thing. I like blooms wild and free, not perched on a plastic pedestal....
...Gold and silver mining shares are flying high with gold at levels previously seen in 2013....
...There are heavy, irregular pre-Columbian jade beads with their ancient patina, flamboyant costume jewels and contemporary artisanal Mexican silver pieces, including what V&A curator Clare Phillips described...
...Many solutions have been proposed to save the exiting paradigm: none are silver bullets....
...As the cutlasses, eyepatches and ships pile up in my children’s rooms, I do sometimes wonder whether this is really such a good thing....
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