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...Some memorable designs include: Nomos table by Norman Foster (1987) Designed by Norman Foster and manufactured by Tecno. The table was originally intended for use in his own office....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...When I created my books and radio series Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy, my aim was to show the hidden economic forces around us by refracting them through everyday inventions....
...Sam also recommends his conversations with Norman Lear and journalist Maria Ressa....
...Yet unlike, say, the current Norman Foster exhibition at the Pompidou in Paris, it refuses to fetishise the finished building....
...Jon Driscoll’s evocative video designs, together with subtle lighting and sound work from Paul Anderson and Ian Dickinson, whisk us from sun-soaked, storm-tossed Jamaica to the splintered cityscape of war-torn...
...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....
...Henry V would blush. If your truck is capable of more than 56 miles an hour, regardless of what speed you are doing, they can fine you. They love to check your tacho....
...It fell to Powell and General Norman Schwarzkopf, the field commander, to assemble the multinational military force, largely based in Saudi Arabia, that the US formed to evict Iraq....
...Yet descendants of Norman conquerors, philandering kings and royal suck-ups continue to sit on the red benches....
...US punk original Patti Smith was scheduled to headline in 2021, though was unable to travel because of Covid restrictions. McGrath says the new space is justified....
...Provided that they remunerate us accordingly.” Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop music critic....
...The US, China, Australia and Canada have all cut rates. Fiscal stimulus plans are under way in South Korea and Japan; Italy is set to follow suit....
...“It provides us with the chance to develop a programme to show the collections, and to partner with other curators and institutions.”...
...No, the real interest in this contest between two men widely acknowledged to be the pre-eminent coaches in world football right now lies elsewhere: in what it tells us about the dynamic interplay between...
...Anthony Fitzsimmons opted for On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman Dixon, “because it applies timelessly to incompetence everywhere, not just in the military”....
...Related Links:Cushman v the cleaner: the fight over non-competes — FT...
...It was harder work selling in the US....
...This story by the FT’s Caroline Binham left us with a bit of chuckle and disbelief....
...It involves the construction of a “world-class” motor museum, an American billionaire and a proposed estate of holiday lodges, billed as being designed by the architect Norman Foster and aimed at classic...
...What a beautiful connection between peace, the holidays, us and the cosmos.” Connections are a Libeskind speciality....
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...In 1971 — two years before the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision legalising abortion — the evangelical Southern Baptist Convention, the largest US Protestant denomination, endorsed abortion in cases of rape...
...The decision in the case, Fisher v University of Texas, “was really significant in that it was really unexpected....
...Part of the V&A’s engineering season, this show is an ambitious attempt to shine a light on the technics underlying the art....
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