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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...co-curator of Foot Print: The Tracks of Shoes in Fashion at the city’s Fashion Museum, where several of Cox’s designs featured....
...I wasn’t expecting Michelangelo, but when I swivelled in my chair to count the ceiling tiles I was surprised to find what looked like oozing coffee stains....
...Ella Kilgallon, the third co-curator, says that their department also aims to look at “contemporary design”....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...Editor-in-chief Martina Mondadori co-founded Cabana as a biannual interiors magazine in 2014....
...Today, of course, we have a plethora of trackers, from the ubiquitous and excellent Tile range to the Invoxia Pet Tracker I wrote about in August....
...for their work on the contemporary wing of London’s V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter (2017), which includes the Sackler courtyard, whose design incorporates 11,000 handmade porcelain tiles....
...Celestron NexStar 6SE, £875, from rothervalleyoptics.co.uk My wellbeing guru was Joseph Pilates. As a young girl I studied with George Balanchine at the New York City Ballet Company....
...In addition, we believe that the company is working well on managing the factors withing its control, and its strategic turnaround, with investment in the UK, USA and Australia, is bearing fruit....
...Her work includes Selfridges’ “Project Ocean” as well as exhibitions at the V&A and the RA....
...At the V&A, Amanda Levete folded her courtyard into an origami landscape; JKMM have draped theirs like a series of tents....
...Another first is the USA Pavilion — look out for glassware by John Hogan and the rugged furniture of Fernando Mastrangelo....
...Last year, Snap lost more money than it made in revenues — a net loss of $515m versus sales of $405m — which could delay index membership, unless Evan Spiegel, the wunderkind co-founder and chief executive...
...Meanwhile New Zealand company Resident is showing “V”, a cantilevered brass wall fitting that directs a soft, halo-like light towards the wall....
...(USA Today) Soundbites “This is just more evidence that Donald Trump himself is a fraud. He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump U....
...In the 2013 case of Clapper v Amnesty International USA, Supreme Court justices ruled that legal action could not be brought against a government surveillance programme as the plaintiffs could not prove...
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My expectation is that growth will slow to below 1 per cent. Big issues are what progress is made in Brexit discussions....
...The Wrong Shop, thewrongshop.co.uk. Viaduct, 1-10 Summers Street, London EC1 (020-7278 8456; viaduct.co.uk). Vitra, vitra.com....
...to Nielsen only behind the USA v Portugal game, which 24.7m watched on a Sunday....
...Look out too for the new Anglepoise lamp from Paul Smith and the Skyline lamps from Swedish duo Folkform. thedesignjunction.co.uk The V&A museum With installations, talks, lectures and workshops throughout...
...Her technique is a career-long development, a method of transferring images on to ceramic tiles in the kiln....
...“It was only when I studied in London that I recognised my own heritage in the amazing Turkish textiles and objects like the Iznik tiles that I found in museums like the V&A.”...
...In effect, you get something for nothing,” says Letts, CEO of Beenz Co. The free beenz market and merchants determine the value....
...One series shows him drawing the “Virgin and Child With Flowers” on large sheets of paper in preparation for the large, ceramic tile mural that fills one wall of the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence....
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