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...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
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...Take his walnut Campaign Bed, which was inspired by a military campaign bed by the specialist maker Thomas Butler. I love its elegant curved brass cornice in particular....
...The Korean Wave” exhibition at the V&A Lola Shoneyin Writer and festival organiser by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lola Shoneyin’s subversion is deliciously sly, her humour mordant, her eyes pitiless and...
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...Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of New Zealand, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, president of...
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...My friend, the late Walter Dellinger, who was acting solicitor-general during the Bill Clinton presidency, gave me some help with the Supreme Court volume and reminded me there have been other periods when...
...Along with that came an ongoing difficulty in trying to adapt without destroying what Walter Bagehot, the 19th-century constitutionalist, described as the magic of monarchy....
...Knowles names them by archetype: Butler, Soviet, Banker, Bags (as in Prada), Sturgeon, Blazer and many more....
...Held at grand houses with a butler hovering in attendance, they were a staple of the London social “season” until the second world war....
...Given the rhetorical splendour on show elsewhere, it’s almost as if Sir Walter Scott had suddenly yielded to Blackadder. The Lion House stops short, with Suleyman not yet halfway through his reign....
...Here she fell hopelessly in love with the “funny, craggily handsome” widower and ex-soldier Walter Morgan....
...Romance, ever since Walter Scott created his Gothic home at Abbotsford, has never ceased to bewitch an addicted nation of country-house prowlers. And what of the future?...
...About four centuries earlier, it had been her namesake Elizabeth I who had first let Sir Walter Raleigh demonstrate the act of smoking to the royal court....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...“I’m the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world,” Powell told Barbara Walters in a 2005 interview after leaving government. “It was painful. It’s painful now”....
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