Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Drax has maintained that the wood it uses is sustainable and says it only takes residual wood from other industries and does not harvest forests itself....
...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....
...James Politi Well, this ruling would outlaw abortion in almost all cases. There are very few exceptions. In fact, there’s only one which is the life of the mother....
...“Venezuela has clearly declared itself an outlaw nation.”...
...From there, Johnsen narrowed the list down to four fragrances, with two last-minute submissions coming from Epinette (Lesedi La Rona III and V)....
...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....
...wonder the women, as this remarkable outlaw (played with capricious charm and sharpshooter timing by Vinnie Heaven) begins to work some magic....
...architecture and material has won countless awards; been acquired by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, MoMA San Francisco and The Pompidou Centre in Paris; and exhibited globally, including at the V&...
...Drax has maintained that the wood it uses is sustainable, and says it only takes residual wood from other industries and does not harvest forests itself....
...— is found poisoned in his bedroom, all of the friends and relatives become suspects and the new in-laws potential outlaws....
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...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...
...This is not Saleem’s first collaboration with the V&A....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...“There is a problem with the Bretton Woods institutions and there is a need to reform these institutions.”...
...Her sculptures are made with fragments that she collects — paper, wood or natural objects — which she joins together and assembles....
...two cascades created by sinking copper “V”s into concrete....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...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....
...Its new wood-beamed ceiling has been painted with colourful symbolic motifs and Old Scots proverbs modelled on the Renaissance decoration of a contemporary Aberdeenshire tower-house....
...If you’re feeling extravagant, consider Nathan Outlaw’s one-Michelin-starred Outlaw’s New Road restaurant. Be sure to keep an eye out for Cornwall’s national bird, the chough....
...But for others it’s all about the feasting – and tuck in you can: Nathan Outlaw, Asma Khan (the Kolkata-born British chef who owns Darjeeling Express) and TV megastar Ching He Huang are just some of the...
International Edition