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...at the V&A....
...Perhaps the most famous high bed in English history is the late-16th-century Great Bed of Ware....
...“Conceived by anonymous designers, they are unadorned, utilitarian and offered at an affordable price — qualities traditionally shared by Mingei wares.”...
...But modern interest in vintage royal ware is often driven by a kitsch appeal....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...The Korean Wave opens September 24, V&A ‘Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style’ by Fiona Bae, (Thames & Hudson), will be published in the UK & Ireland on 22 September 2022...
...What you cannot see in the show is that George, future King George V, had a dragon and a tiger tattooed on his arm to commemorate the trip....
...Similar examples can be found in London’s V&A and the White House, Smith notes....
...Brexit Ware has been acquired by museums including the Museum of the Home in London and the Ariana Museum of Ceramics and Glass in Geneva, and has appeared in several exhibitions at the V&A....
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...bibbings-hensby.co.uk Alice Walton “I wanted my sculptures to be taken seriously within the art world,” says ceramicist Alice Walton, whose multilayered, multicoloured porcelain forms have been shown at the V&...
...Yet, like Disney and Spotify, Rockstar has little need to advertise its wares in someone else’s market....
...She references an item from the V&A’s collection — the vast Great Bed of Ware (1590) which featured in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (1601) and Ben Johnson’s Epiconene (1609)....
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...In lieu of a show, he invited a score of fashion designers to work with the brand’s wares and the results were staged as an interactive exhibition, open to a wider audience and much promoted online....
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...Jay Z referenced it in his latest collaboration with Beyoncé, “Everything is Love”, with the lyric “Louis V and Goyard trunks all in the closet.”...
...Dig into the “soft v hard” dichotomy a little, and there is still some hard evidence that central bankers will be nervous of inflation....
...What makes it a particularly exciting venture is that on the floors below it and right beside it is being created the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, a not-for-profit partnership between the V&A...
...taking its inspiration from Twelfth Night, will take place in the Britain 1500-1760 Galleries, with performers using “stories, music and revelry” and interacting with museum pieces such as the Great Bed of Ware...
...Developers such as Microsoft and Sony are in London this week to show off their latest wares at EGX Rezzed, London’s biggest gaming event....
...Photographs: Rebecca Lupton; Christopher Furlong/360; Craven Dunill Jackfield; V&A/DeMorgan...
...Then, a similar treatment in sequins; four gorgeous evening dresses with a plunging V fronts, and each inset with a sheer lace placket....
...He plays Philippe V of Spain, to whom the operatic castrato Farinelli became chamber musician in 1737....
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