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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....
...Winser, Gummer and head chef George Williams have done that to pub food....
...There are other venues too: the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, which hosts an installation by Birmingham-born multidisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada; and AirSpace gallery, where William Cobbing brings...
...It was in Kew Gardens, designed by William Chambers in 1762.”...
...Its ground floor – huge spaces with period wood panelling, ornate ceilings and 10ft-tall French doors and bay windows – contain both members-only zones and public rooms for hotel guests: a library, a bar...
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...On the watchmaking front, William Wood Watches will take five of the 30 pieces in its British Coronation Watch limited edition to sell at the Windup Watch Fair in San Francisco at the end of April....
...The writer William Gibson’s famous line about the “future”, that it “is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”, certainly applies to London....
...Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Doubleday/Random House)An off-the-wall love story that follows the romantic travails of a TV comedy scriptwriter from the author of Rodham and American Wife....
...It is followed by a fantasy room, an Orientalist fever dream of exotic tiles around a burbling fountain, overlooked by a pierced wood mashrabiya — a fragment of Damascus in Holland Park....
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...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 plinths are satisfactorily tactile — a stack of wood-fired bricks, hewn wooden columns....
...Trevor Williams: No — it may have gone too far in raising taxes....
...For my Paris hotel project, last year I designed a mirror inspired by William Kent’s ornate gilt-wood pieces, recreated in simple off-white painted MDF, to which I added decoration in black paint....
...But I get the impression that, just occasionally, really V, V, VIPs may be given a glimpse within....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...In roughly chronological order, William Cobbett, Woodward and Bernstein, Sir Harold Evans and Ryszard Kapuściński....
...“The fields from Islington to Marylebone/To Primrose Hill and St John’s Wood/Were builded over with pillars of gold/And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood,” wrote William Blake, the visionary artist who was...
...Later we end up in the library — a shack-like structure built of repurposed wood and corrugated sheets, half-open to the elements....
...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...
...There was Crown Prince Rudolf, who shot his teenage mistress at the hunting lodge in the Vienna Woods before turning his gun on himself....
...apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V” and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chair at JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust: No....
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
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