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...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...
...The building’s features — such as its V-shaped roof and wood-beamed ceilings — are typical of Lautner’s mid-century style....
...Los Angeles and Santa Monica have both made retrofitting all vulnerable buildings mandatory but plenty of other cities continue to resist....
...Make like the model and designer TyLynn Nguyen and try a plain white tee underneath a gently oversized style....
...Downtown LA Proper is full of those elements that have made the brand’s success in San Francisco and Austin (and, more recently, Santa Monica): these range from outrageously cool-looking public spaces, in...
...Monica Mutsvangwa, information minister, received a jab of the Sinopharm vaccine on Monday....
...She argued that while markets were pricing in a V-shaped recovery for the US economy, “we are expecting something less resilient”, after US jobless claims rose back above 1m last week....
...John Sutherland’s Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), a biography of the poet’s lover and muse, has generated keen interest ahead of its publication in April....
...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...But while I was working at the Georges V in Paris, I asked a customer if I could make him a Manhattan my way....
...Historically, economies frequently experience a V-shaped recovery after a recession....
...Where to seeMary Quant at the V&A (vam.ac.uk); till Feb 16. Zandra Rhodes: Fifty Years of Fabulous at the Fashion & Textile Museum (ftmlondon.org); Sept 27 2019-Jan 26 2020....
...“The worst is likely over . . . but trade is unlikely to have a ‘V-shaped’ recovery,” said Trinh Nguyen, an economist at Natixis in Hong Kong....
...(To quote one interview: “Nicola Benedetti looks like an Italian screen goddess: think Sophia Loren, Monica Vitti and, latterly, Monica Bellucci....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Then, in 1974, came the Rumble in the Jungle: Ali v George Foreman....
...One afternoon in Hanoi, I met Nguyen Anh Tuan, an activist who belongs to Vietnam’s small but vocal dissident community....
...He pointed out that the V&A has a long-established arms and armour department....
...Rory Hyde, curator of contemporary architecture at the V&A Museum, describes it as one of the architectural masterpieces of the 20th century....
...Design sketches for the two cars, which will be unveiled at the Paris car show in October, show sleek and sporty models, each with a “V” emblazoned on their grilles....
...Economic proposals Left v right A quarter of a century ago, before the wave of crises that hit emerging markets in the late 1990s, Brazil became a model of liberal reform....
...It has been designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon, whose previous work includes the George V in Paris, The Savoy in London and the Four Seasons in Florence....
...(Gizmodo) Lunch with Sean Penn The Oscar-winning actor doesn’t want to eat at Chez Jay, a steaks and beer joint in Santa Monica. He is in debt to “every bookmaker that waterhole hosts”....
...There are swaths of claret velvet worthy of cabinet displays at the V&A or the Met, swirls of painstakingly embroidered gold and crystal, and thousands of hand-painted feathers....
...A few miles away in Santa Monica is another archetypally Los Angeles house that seems to have nothing at all in common with the pristine clarity of Koenig’s house....
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