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...I love the decor – a mix of contemporary art, modern furniture, dark wood and soft lighting....
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...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...
...The original artefacts, the pierced screens and complex geometrical wood and tilework, have been flattened, reappearing after centuries as ghosts of themselves, rendered here in vivid colours....
...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.”...
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...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....
...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....
...V, and to those who added a storey and the stair tower in the early 17th century....
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...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...
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