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...“I love that red-hot line between sculpture and furniture,” says Ross....
...Space-age design I Designers and furniture makers have been inspired by space exploration for decades....
...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...A long V-shaped fissure which cuts dramatically through the backrest, when seen from the front, reveals the silhouette of Batman’s horned mask....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...First made in 1985, these fuzzy palm-sized creatures are the product of Epoch, a Japanese toy and computer-games company....
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...The company has also set up repair and take-back schemes to help extend the lives of its furniture....
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Paul Richardson was a guest of Cas Gasi and Six Senses Ibiza...
...My favourite website is Vitsœ, a furniture company run by a friend of mine called Mark Adams. The website is just so cleanly done; I can’t fault it....
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...At the heart of the fair, the V&A’s Melanie Vandenbrouck has curated a sculpture display on the east-west axis previously occupied by the bar....
...Its garden is a relaxed mix of semi-formal beds with herbs, wild-flower areas, woven hazel and Welsh oak gates and garden furniture....
...The Canalejas complex melds seven historic buildings, including the former headquarters of several banks and insurance companies, into a 200-room hotel, 22 apartments, a commercial gallery and “gastromarket...
...Or the other way to think about it is if like, your list is like, I want a black V-neck cashmere sweater, it’s like, well, what is the best version of that black V-neck sweater?...
...The cost was unsustainable for Richardson, a former secretary, who had sold her and her deceased husband’s £250,000 flat as well as their furniture to pay for care....
...Alongside craftsmanship and use of materials he looks for “how this example of jewellery might relate to examples of sculpture, architecture, furniture”, he says, as well as “jewellers who are responding...
...Mike Lewis, head of US equities cash trading at Barclays, said that while he expected the drop in the stock market to be shortlived, investors were no longer baking in a powerful V-shaped recovery....
...(Actually, the future is still up for grabs as cockapoos and cavapoos act out a Krays v Richardsons-style battle for control of the capital’s green spaces....
...That early commission produced a design for their Loop table that sat on a shelf until they convinced Chris McCourt, the owner of Isokon Plus (the furniture company that appointed Walter Gropius as controller...
...In London, the company Thermo Lignum undertakes this for museums, including the V&A, the Tate and the British Museum, as well as private clients....
...Not exactly fit for the V&A, but it worked just fine in a foyer around the corner from the Gare du Nord....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
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