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...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...I did not know, for example, that the grain of paper used in UK and US bookmaking runs in different directions, nor that this is why American books lie flatter than their bulky English cousins....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Brexit forced us [in the UK] into two separate camps, and in America there was Trump.”...
...Big Asian battery developers such as Samsung chose to build battery factories in eastern Europe over Britain because they would be closer to the much larger German auto market, Sir Geoffrey Owen, head of...
...Van der Hoorn and his co-founder, Thomas Woodham-Smith, who is also the new event’s director, are both tight-lipped about what scale of investment that involves. Neither was looking to take on a fair....
...Last month, Geoffrey Siebengartner, an American Chamber of Commerce official and head of government affairs and corporate responsibility in Asia Pacific for JPMorgan, was the focus of a select committee...
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...The V&A wisely acquired Thomas Thwaites’s “Toaster Project” — a physical record of his doomed attempts to build himself a working toaster, starting with the search for raw materials....
...But many of the fair’s 52 exhibitors praised organisers Harry Van der Hoorn and Thomas Woodham-Smith for getting it going at all....
...Chamberlain and Rayner started their textile investigations when they came across a December 1960 US edition of Glamour magazine in the V&A library in London, and an article about a dress collection designed...
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...That photographer is Thomas Ruff, with whom H&deM have been collaborating for decades....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...There are threads of place here that connect us deep into history, just as the art gives us a glimpse of an age when England was rising from a provincial to a global force, driven by revolutions in agriculture...
...Thomas is also happy to remain based in the UK, despite the allure of the US market. He insisted: “We are doing very well here so there is no incentive or need for us to jump over to the US....
...When We See Us is part of the broadening of international clout. “The exhibition is travelling, to Europe and the US,” Kouoh says....
...The US billionaire and conservationist Thomas Kaplan and his childhood friend Simon Marsh had a pair of early Mk I Spitfires restored from 2007 to 2012 by Romain and his team....
...The US Supreme Court has suddenly lurched to the extreme right....
...The colour of Greenough’s V-neck stripe has gone from green to blue. “Going to plan?” I ask. “Errr no,” comes the reply. Mike Thomas, the race director, has a distant look in his eyes....
...Trees outlive us frail mortals.”...
...The top 1 to 2 per cent of clients account for about a fifth of sales at couture brands, Citi luxury analyst Thomas Chauvet estimates, and these brands are hustling to draw them back into stores....
...Davidson describes one of the most enchanting, a wooden “Showbox” created by Thomas Gainsborough....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...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....
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