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...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...registered with the Pewterers’ Company and any maker found to be selling substandard wares risked losing their mark and being unable to trade,” notes Angus Patterson, senior curator of metalwork at the V&...
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...When the Portuguese abstract expressionist painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva’s Kukas ring no longer fitted her, she displayed the striking piece at home, framing it in a Perspex box like a much-loved...
...A similar marquetry style is employed by Brazilian jeweller Silvia Furmanovich, who works with master artisan Maqueson Pereira da Silva to create brilliant jewel boxes....
...Models, Angel Da Silva, Mari Seide, Milanca Figuereido and Valentina Gomes. Casting, Braima Djata. Hair, Tânia Mário Gomes. Make-up, Melissa Righi. Photographer’s assistant, Adam Storm....
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...As Brazil’s minister of environment and climate change, Marina Silva is at the heart of that crisis....
...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....
...Likewise Colin Farrell, an actor with the looks of an Adonis who can radiate masculine vulnerability like no other actor on the screen....
...When curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum visited, they selected, along with five other pieces, a miniature replica of the bed made for cats that will go into the collection of V&A East, which opens...
...Paulo Guedes, Brazil’s finance minister, has remained bullish, telling the Financial Times recently that Brazil would “surprise the world again” and continue its “V-shaped recovery”....
...His vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, had just arrived back from Moscow bearing seasonal tidings of comfort and joy regarding Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...(FT) Lula da Silva’s graft convictions quashed A supreme court judge in Brazil has annulled the graft convictions of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva....
...It’s a destination for high-end, investment-level kimonos, three of which feature in the V&A’s show....
...Slovakia’s ruling coalition could be in danger of breaking up over potential purchases of doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...There are leather-lined silver bowls and boxes from San Lorenzo, the Milanese silver specialist whose work sits in the permanent collection at the V&A; ebony-edged maple-wood trays and picture frames from...
...exhibition of different permutations of abstraction starting in 1943 in the work of artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Raymond Hains, Joan Mitchell, Judit Reigl, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva...
...“Millinery and bows have a long interconnected history,” explains Oriole Cullen, the V&A’s fashion and textiles director, who is currently completing its major retrospective Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams...
...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....
...AMLO currently leads polls for the vote, with 48 per cent approval rating v 26 for Ricardo Anaya, the candidate currently in second place....
...(WaPo) Baby v robot A US couple, one a robotics expert at MIT and the other a speech and language specialist, rigged up the most extensive home-video system ever to study their baby....
...But on the front page of Libero, the English journalist Nicholas Farrell said “the tide is shifting . . . against Germany and tyranny”....
...(FT) Trump v Clinton: Florida or bust The race may come down to the Sunshine State, and Clinton’s ability to turn out Hispanics versus Trump’s support among older white voters....
...The most spectacular buying opportunity in recent history came in Brazil when investors treated the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president in 2002 as though the country had moved over to communism...
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