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...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...The workshop-studio is spread over two floors, and outside, in a courtyard looking up to the trees and dancing dragonflies, the sounds of drilling and sanding of wood mingle with the barking of his dogs....
...up the city of Stoke-on-Trent....
...The tools students use today — the hammer or metal “chisel hardie”, set in to blocks of wood — have barely changed over the centuries....
...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...
...His work appears again in a black wood temple on the docks and in a model of the vast new proposed Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi....
...The sober hall near the Bank of England, with its black-and-white-chequered marble floor and its dark wood counters now has the air of ancient Rome after the sack, with City workers baying for cocktails....
...Both Sheikh and Pakistani artist Zahoor ul Akhlaq studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, and were astounded by the V&A’s originals after muted reproductions at home....
...the subject of an influential and inflammatory 1933 exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute....
...of contemporary art provides an alternative view of the Eternal City....
...In her final year of study, she was also awarded the Young Masters Maylis grand ceramic prize and has since shown at the V&A, Christie’s and Collect at the Saatchi Gallery....
...Northern counties such as Las Hurdes, the subject of Luis Buñuel’s 1933 documentary Land Without Bread, and luscious La Vera, site of the Emperor Carlos V’s monastery-retirement home at Yuste, are best enjoyed...
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...It’s as much the story of modern America and modern capitalism as it is the tale of how a tiny 19th-century fabric shop founded by three Bavarian-Jewish brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, later moved into...
...The building’s features — such as its V-shaped roof and wood-beamed ceilings — are typical of Lautner’s mid-century style....
...Tallinn, Estonia Found down one of 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....
...An installation occupied the entire back wall of the lower-ground gallery: skinny sticks of painted wood, forms embellished with reels of tape, accretions of wooden scraps, a rolled-up ivory-coloured rope...
...If I think they’re pieces that are worthy of an archive, I’ll donate them to the Powerhouse Museum, which is our version of the V&A....
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...Even as I steered the car along cobbled streets of whitewashed town houses with ironwork balconies, a whiff of ancient barrels and dark musty cellars, of wood and alcohol, came in through the open window...
...An object I would never part with is one of my husband’s beautiful handmade olive-wood corkscrews by Laguiole....
...“He gets enormous pleasure out of gardening. 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....
...The artist charged with putting V-A-C on the map is Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson....
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...The results, which will be exhibited at the Design Museum until October 10, include recent Royal College of Art graduate Alessandra Fumagalli Romario’s leggy cherry wood case....
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