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...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....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...What I wanted, however, was to visit the Company Shed....
...Synth company Teenage Engineering will transform the space into a 1970s discotheque, while sound artist Yuri Suzuki cuts records....
...(The Dutch government is co-sponsoring the prototype test, splitting the €1.5m cost equally with deep-sea dredging company Boskalis and an anonymous donor.)...
...The evidence of continued dredging could complicate a visit to the US by Chinese President Xi Jinping next week....
...There’s a reason “David v Goliath” has become the favoured Oscar narrative over the past 10 years: it exactly reproduces the contours of an industry that has itself bifurcated between studio spectacle and...
...While here in London we’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display....
...WWF is already working on a pilot scheme to rewild some parts of the river Nar in Norfolk and similar measures are being taken in other parts of the country....
...Rampley explains that Fishing in Florence, a tour company he set up this year, owes its existence to his life-long love of angling – he reeled in his first carp in Norfolk at the age of six – and to Florence...
...In their company he scrutinised arts and antiquities harder than most – and with less prejudice of what constituted fashion....
...Dredging of the navigational channels along the narrowest section, the Culebra Cut, is finished....
...Mr Vernon, who is the ‘v’ in Brevan, intends to “pursue other interests”. Of the five founding partners, Jean-Philippe Blochet left in November 2009 to join Moore Capital....
...“There has been considerable improvement in social welfare in the last five years,” said V. Krishnananth, a Chennai-based author on Indian politics....
...Liberatum stages discussions between cultural figures from architecture, music, literature and fashion – such as the writers Gore Vidal and V.S....
...He lives in Norfolk with his wife and four children, writes Esther Bintliff....
...Hotels in KHI’s portfolio include the Four Seasons Nile Plaza in Cairo and the Norfolk in Kenya, as well as 25 percent interest in the Four Seasons King George V in Paris....
...Riat Chairman The Bremic Hotel V....
...Today's equivalent, the Gulfstream V with its television sets and gold taps in the bathrooms, is considerably more at £26m....
...Even so, the list reads a little oddly: Paris (the Georges V, indeed), Provence, Budapest, Dublin, Istanbul, Milan, Prague…and Farnham....
...Labour scores just 23 per cent, while six out of ten company directors say - perhaps unsurprisingly - they will vote Tory....
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