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...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Both Sheikh and Pakistani artist Zahoor ul Akhlaq studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, and were astounded by the V&A’s originals after muted reproductions at home....
...“There is a problem with the Bretton Woods institutions and there is a need to reform these institutions.”...
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...Simultaneously, London is also a place with backyard shanty housing and squalor that Charles Dickens would recognise....
...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....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...It is followed by a fantasy room, an Orientalist fever dream of exotic tiles around a burbling fountain, overlooked by a pierced wood mashrabiya — a fragment of Damascus in Holland Park....
...Now it has pivoted its efforts into opening a vaccination centre for the local residents of St John’s Wood....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
...V” and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...Stockport; M McQuillan, Edinburgh Polymath 1,005: Mrs SM Fraser, Middlesbrough Crossword 16,057: G Dennis, Stratford-upon-Avon; Joanne Cooper, Fife; Andrew Anderson, Bangor Polymath 1,004: Caroline Wood...
...contemporary furniture and product design at the V&A....
...It is just past midday and we are the only customers in Saigon Saigon, which has dark wood panelling and slow-turning ceiling fans....
...Rotork has the single largest exposure in our coverage (~50% v 60% in 2014 though)....
...Charles White, the subject of a stirring retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, was a quietly, powerfully radical painter....
...He notices that a song by Charles Aznavour, that late, great Armenian-French singer, is playing in the background....
...All white walls and blonde wood, bathed in light from large windows set hard up against the street, it invites passers-by to peer in....
...One of the historical figures guests might be reminded of is Charles de Gaulle, holed up in the Lutetia in early June 1940, as German forces bore down on Paris....
...“Normandie really was seen as an ambassador of France, a kind of tool of state,” Wood says....
...V for one, England’s Henry VIII for another — but also to God....
...Two designer couples in particular have become inseparable from the history of plywood — Charles and Ray Eames and Alvar and Aino Aalto....
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