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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...“This is not about Japanese-ness — this is the art of everybody,” says Yuko Kikuchi, head of academic programmes at the V&A, who worked with Inglesby on the exhibition and contributed a chapter to its accompanying...
...Inside the 19th-century wooden house, in place of furniture, display cases, numbered and arranged in order, correspond to some of the 83 chapters in the 750-page novel....
...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...His workers would then make appropriate wooden forms or moulds for Las Pozas’s elaborately curved and angled concrete structures....
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...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...
...In room 55B, across from Dürer’s “Adam and Eve”, hung a small wooden mannequin, based on Dürer’s treatise on the proportions of the human body....
...Manto is explaining the story of Tipu Sultan’s wooden tiger, which lives in the V&A, to Rooney and Ali....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...The now defunct label’s black Lycra Amorphous disco dress is in the V&A museum’s collection....
...A tower of shelves made from wooden struts, the black and red strips of fabric tied around its joins suggest it is a shrine. Yousefzada says it’s about “migration, female agency and consumption”....
...With an array of elegant 18th-century furniture (some on loan from the V&A), books, fittings and works by Gainsborough and his contemporaries, the rooms exude a quiet domesticity....
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...So she filled in the holes with snug wooden blocks, placed a sheet of glass on top and freestanding V-shaped wooden legs below, then stabilised the whole thing with thin scraps of wood underneath....
...In the bowels of the capital, wooden gas-lit carriages were towed along by steam trains....
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...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...King George V Park, the Scottish Gallery and Scottish National Portrait Gallery are a short walk away. What A second-floor flat with two to three bedrooms and about 1,060 sq ft of living space....
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...Very different is Noriyosha Morimura’s Television House in Japan’s Suita City, a high-tech dwelling set on a V-shaped base designed to isolate the structure from tremors....
...First, the full tracing of Donatello’s development — from a Gothic wooden “Crucifixion” (1408) so harsh that Brunelleschi told Donatello “he had put a peasant on the cross”, to the complex, interwoven, openwork...
...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....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
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