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...the over-200-year-old Austrian glassmaker Lobmeyr – from a modernist, monochrome cocktail set by turn-of-the-century Viennese designer Josef Hoffmann to the contemporary colour-pop tumblers created by Martino...
...The two kings before him, Edward VIII and George V, similarly had smoking-related diseases. Come the coronation, the Queen’s antipathy to smoking echoed the beginnings of a mood of change....
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
...Neighbours such as Central Saint Martins and Tom Dixon will also stage events, while Coal Drops Yard hosts “Idiosyncratic”, an insight into the work of Martino Gamper (above; see interview)....
...“I was hanging out with Björk and Jarvis Cocker, and with Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jay Jopling, with Hussein Chalayan and the Chapman Brothers. It was an amazing time. A revolution in the arts.”...
...Sculptor Martino Gamper designed a ceremonial double arch of 160 stacking chairs for the V&A courtyard for London Design Week in 2009. The loveseat One of the early extensions of the Windsor chair....
...Now let me ask you about this daguerreotype of you with your arm around Annie Chapman, the second Ripper victim. I do not know this woman....
...I like to think I can still discover things in them that can’t be found online. rarebooks.ie The best gift I’ve given recently was a set of Cuttings V wine glasses by Martino Gamper for J Hill’s Standard...
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...The Cubs, guided by its deliciously eccentric manager, Joe Maddon, are young, powerful and talented throughout the line-up and have a closing pitcher, the Cuban Aroldis Chapman, who routinely throws at 100mph...
...Victoria and Albert Museum As the festival’s official hub, the V&A will host talks about the future of design and a series of installations....
...My colleague Peter Chapman has a theory that the English working classes realised that it was all up with Empire three years before the upper-classes....
...… In 2007, the designer Martino Gamper addressed the issue of disposability in a magical project, “100 Chairs in 100 Days”....
...Ruth Chapman, chief executive and co-founder of online retailer Matches, says: “I think school uniform colours work right now because they’re comforting and evoke memories of more carefree times.”...
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...These include the beautiful 1,000-seat Theatre dell’Aquila, the biggest in Le Marche (which has 120 theatres), and the 17th-century church of San Martino, which has recently been renovated....
...Also at the V&A: Sebastian Wrong and Richard Woods’ “Bench Press”, the reclaimed materials installation “Wasted”, and “In Praise of Shadows”....
...Havana Deco By Alejandro Alonso, Pedro Contreras and Martino Fagiuoli W.W....
...Boudicca’s first studio was located on Fashion Street, under Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing’s workspace and down the street from Sensation sensations Jake and Dinos Chapman....
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...Charlotte Mullins is the editor of the V&A Magazine. “Phallacy” runs at the New End Theatre, Hampstead, London NW3, until May 14....
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