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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....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...It forecasts that China’s colour cosmetics market, which includes products such as foundations, lipsticks and nail polishes, will hit Rmb111.3bn ($15.6bn) in 2028, up from Rmb71.6bn in 2022....
...Adam Carroll, a Hudson Valley-based estate agent with Compass, mostly works with high net worth buyers who are browsing in the area....
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...She has rendered the plump stubbiness of the fingers, the slight swell of the palms and the close-clipped half-moons of the nails with expressive precision....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...The slender profile of 111 W 57th represents the proud nail in the coffin of that potential....
...You are right on the nail, Mr Mance....
...From their apartment 53 storeys above the bustle of Columbus Circle, they could peek over neighbouring skyscrapers to the Hudson River. Their lifestyle depended on Ganieva’s silence....
...The Korean Wave opens September 24, V&A ‘Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style’ by Fiona Bae, (Thames & Hudson), will be published in the UK & Ireland on 22 September 2022...
...No old paper bags, bits of string, ribbon and wood, nails or pieces of cloth were ever thrown away if they could be repurposed in some form — as clothes, fencing, or anything else....
...“This is the market’s realisation that we are moving from a clear V-shaped recovery into something a lot more uncertain,” said Mohammed Kazmi, a portfolio manager at Union Bancaire Privée....
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...One Wall Street, though, is on another level: an Art Deco-shaped nail in the coffin of this global hub of banking. The institutions are still here, but they are shrinking back....
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...The compacts, pencils and bottles look flashy and joyful in a red hue with gold details, such as the V logo, on the lipsticks....
...And if the truth should be hard to nail down in simplicities, then the least history can do is to disabuse its readers of outright falsehoods....
...UK gross domestic product remains nearly 10 per cent below its pre-Covid-19 February level, suggesting “that the recovery has not been V-shaped”, said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics...
...Bank of England data showed a V-shaped recovery in mortgage approvals in July....
...But households would save more of their incomes than they did last year, he said, meaning “a sustained V-shaped recovery in households’ spending is out of reach”....
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...The rebound in macro data, which has given hopes of a V-shaped recovery, could prove to be an illusion and the recovery will slow down.”...
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