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...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...Also featuring clothes, cosmetics and perfumes, the V&A show will chart the evolution of her design approach from the opening of her first boutique in 1910 to her final collection in 1971....
...It’s truly a pinnacle of the genre....
...In 1673, it was bought by a pinnacle of social mobility, Josiah Child. He owned a brewery. He also owned a slave-worked plantation in Jamaica....
...and MoMA in New York and London’s V&A museum....
...used to design chips....
...Nikola Tesla was an early tenant (evicted for not paying his rent) and later it became home to the Kellex Corporation, which was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...One proposed design for Gateway, from the Sierra Nevada Corporation, would give the astronauts roughly as much floorspace as a 2,000 sq ft home....
...design company Houzz (Tel Aviv University)....
...home and body....
...“But, at the same time, we’re in the 21st century, so it has to evolve and continue to be at the pinnacle of relevance at all times. Obviously there is a legacy; I’ve been respectful of that....
...That could make it easier to design new materials, or find better ways for handling existing processes....
...Not only did he design and manufacture cheap homes with his Standard Houses Corporation but he built entire settlements in Indian Head and Suitland, Maryland....
...of the Olympic Park patrolled by forlorn-looking security guards; or you can take a route over the canal from Hackney Wick, a post-industrial wasteland rejuvenated by artists, its graffitied warehouses home...
...With 34 nations and some of the world’s biggest design institutions, including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (US), the MAK (Austria), the Moscow Design Museum, the V&A and the India Design...
...Lily Le Brun Photographs: Mike Kitcatt/V&A; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Christina Smith/V&A; Kawaii Monster Café Harajuku; Gion; Pip Barnard/V&A; A Astes/Alamy; James Jaron/V&A...
...UR and the public Mohammed V University in Rabat are partners in an automotive design lab with PSA Peugeot Citroën, which will open a factory in Morocco in 2019....
...“It was playful, imaginative, inviting, fun and at the same time functional,” says Victoria Broackes, head of the London Design Festival at the V&A....
...This year’s event on July 1 included a discussion about government v developer responsibility for social housing....
...Its treasures include Wedgwood’s Portland Vase, the pinnacle of the 18th century potter’s art, as well as valuable paintings by George Stubbs and Reynolds....
...A note to Britain’s home secretary from the Prix Pictet committee seeking explanation was simply ignored....
...estate – took shape, its properties crowned by V-shaped butterfly roofs by William Krisel....
...The V&A show should provide a masterclass in the art of self-invention....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
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