Hints and tips:
...Invented by Henry Cole, founder of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the museum that would become the V&A, Christmas cards have been commercially available since 1843....
...We’ve also got a host of other people showing us how to give it....
...Lily Cole, actor and activistThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut The best books I’ve read in the past year are all by Vonnegut....
...It gave us that accessibility which allowed us to make everything else better — bigger shows, invest in fabrics and grow the team.”...
...“Some of our regular clients are willing to let us make bold decisions on their behalf,” he says. “Social media also helps to see and swap ideas....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...“Black people in the US make up nearly 15 per cent of the population,” states her campaign....
...Back in London, it was installed in the V&A’s Henry Cole Wing, but remained on view only until 2005....
...Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,048: Craig Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword...
...Adam Cole at RBC Capital Markets makes the point that the dollar index is showing less sensitivity to changes in interest rates, given how the US retains its “status as the highest yielding G10 currency”...
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...The writer is director of the V&A...
...By contrast, the V&A explores her acceptance of technical flaws to add energy and character....
...Henry Cole, the founding director of the V&A, encouraged the purchase of Strudwick’s series of photographs titled “Old London: Views by W. Strudwick”....
...Experimentation was integral to his work (the V&A also features his nature and travel reportage), as was his great personal charm....
...In June 2013, she won one of the most significant civil rights cases in US history, United States v Windsor....
...But the explosion of design museums around the world indicates that design is being taken as seriously as when Henry Cole established the V&A....
...The determination by high net worth individuals (HNWIs – defined by Knight Frank as individuals with more than US$30m net assets) to spend their way pleasurably out of the encircling gloom is reflected by...
...Long before settling in the US, Leigh Blake was a south London girl with a local twang and a passion for politics....
...Geometric by Cole & Son Cole & Son, the company that has made wallpaper for Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and the White House, will be launching its autumn collection, entitled Geometric,...
...In a corridor at the V&A a Cruikshank print lampoons the latest preposterous fashions in Hyde Park in 1822....
...The talent show judge with the razor-sharp put downs, V-neck sweaters and high-waisted trousers capped weeks of wall-to-wall newspaper coverage of his ITV show The X Factor by taking on the UK Border Agency...
...All of us have some prior sailing experience but we need to build our knowledge and confidence before embarking on a sea passage in charge of a boat....
...Michael Cole, New York LS: Servicing retail investors is both labour intensive and expensive, so most big financial institutions have preferred institutional business in the last 30 or 40 years....
...“In the US we are forming 1m households a year, and that’s one thing you can correlate with car sales,” says David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
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