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...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...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....
...“We describe ourselves as ‘making change through clay,’” says Wood, citing the initiative Recast — “a programme in partnership with Stoke Recovery Service to address points of alignment between working with...
...The extensive range of magazines include Dry and Self Service....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...Its 2.5 miles of civil service linoleum-lined, cream-painted corridors have been turned into an oak-panelled evocation of a gentleman’s club-cum-country house....
...I imagined him smiling as the entrails sprayed from James Woods in Videodrome, chuckling as the skin fell off Jeff Goldblum in The Fly. I imagined him in surgery. It wasn’t to be....
...Between Wednesday and Saturday, ambulance services provided medical attention to 1,078 queuers, 136 of whom were taken to hospital....
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...The artist charged with putting V-A-C on the map is Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson....
...The sudden boom in orders last autumn, in the wake of a sharp, pandemic-induced drop, resembled “a very sharp V . . . in China it was a very, very sharp V,” Busch said....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...As with lavender sachets, mothballs and cedar, they should be replaced every three months (cedar wood has the benefit that a sanding will reactivate the fragrance)....
...Ark Investment Management’s Cathie Wood said Musk’s cryptocurrency move was typical of innovators....
...“An initial ‘V’ shape in the recovery — and by initial we mean a few months — is inevitable as people are allowed to return to work and the shops,” Mr Wood added....
...The data reflect that many services are still closed, with England's theatres, music venues and pools only allowed to reopen from Saturday....
...Stockport; M McQuillan, Edinburgh Polymath 1,005: Mrs SM Fraser, Middlesbrough Crossword 16,057: G Dennis, Stratford-upon-Avon; Joanne Cooper, Fife; Andrew Anderson, Bangor Polymath 1,004: Caroline Wood...
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...It was the work of Prouvé’s contemporary and sometime collaborator Pierre Jeanneret, who designed them, along with the V-leg Committee chair on which I sat and the easy chairs by the picture window, for...
...A sand- and wind-blasted quotation in French and English, employing the rhetorical energy of Henry V’s St Crispin’s Day speech, was manifestly forward-looking and filled with hope: “Men will be proud to...
...(Article I, par (v).)...
...For Vevers, that meant youth fully optimistic shearling-trimmed bombers, V-neck sweaters and leather pencil skirts paired with colourful trainers and tube socks....
...Then came the real thing, served in an ohitsu, a traditional and obviously well-worn Japanese dish made of cypress wood....
...Here, in Paris’s “golden triangle” between the Champs-Élysées and Avenue Georges V, the impeccable stone facades breathe the silence and calm of orderly luxury....
...It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
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