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...They paint a picture of Istanbul and Turkey between the 1950s and 2000s, battling a course to modernity, suspended precariously between east and west, seen through the prism of a tumultuous love....
...The country remains divided, with militias controlling the west and Haftar the east....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Stanley was subsequently able to identify 37 of the V&A’s tiles as having originated from the Çinili Hamam....
...With walls crammed with works that are also available to buy, this is another fixture in the summer social diary....
...He attributed this repatriation to performance differentials, with European bourses’ erstwhile outperformance of Wall Street having “faltered since the third week of May”....
...Beside an east London wall bearing deeply incised advertising from the 19th century (for a locksmith’s business), Saleem inscribed patterns inspired by the V&A tiles into the mosque wall to create a strikingly...
...big here), is intriguing but it would have been interesting to see the east European equivalent in which the Soviets funded massive programmes of education and construction....
...Twenty years later the trend is gathering pace: the V&A is building an open storage facility in east London and the Boijmans van Beuningen opened its version in Rotterdam last year....
...Love scenes were to be lit only by candles, glimmering on floor-to-ceiling wall-to-wall mirrors that Kubrick thought were Napoleon’s thing: Versailles, only pornier....
...Exclusive designs include the Enfilade cushions and quilts by east London social enterprise FabricWorks using offcuts of the Gainsborough fabrics that cover the gallery walls. npgshop.org.uk Victoria Woodcock...
...And then the areas, as you say, in the south-east and the south-west and the Home Counties where the liberal Democrats are the main challengers to the Conservatives....
...DD’s Sujeet Indap breaks down the $44bn bank bailout bonanza in this Alphaville post....
...Retrace the path back to the Lille Langebro bridge and head east....
...London is about the grand gesture planning of the new Stratford, where the V&A East museum is taking shape, and it is about Mare Street market, which maintains a lively balance between street food vendors...
...Claer Barrett Say he does, I’d love to be a fly on the wall if that was to happen....
...It is not the quake that kills but the house itself; collapsing structures, falling floors, crumbling walls....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Wall Street bosses meanwhile are split on what the Fed should do next....
...the cobbled back streets of Tallinn old town, Restoran V is a cosy, wood-panelled spot that serves Baltic soul food with an exquisite twist....
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...Santi’s client base is testament to Krishna’s global sensibility, covering Asia, the Middle East, the US and the UK....
...Back on the regular markets, Lex looks at how the slump in tech stocks has triggered a buyback bonanza....
...The US has unveiled plans for a solar building bonanza. New OECD figures showed green Covid recovery spending has jumped to more than $1tn....
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