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Posts tagged 'V&A'

Horst: Photographer of Style

The fashion photographer’s dramatic lighting and stylised sets created fantastical images that epitomise a period, says Fatema Ahmed In 1933, the Hungarian photojournalist Martin Munkácsi

Opinion

Tangible data

Physical versions of pie and bar charts and a tapestry that represents human voices are attempts by designers to make data more accessible With everyday

Design

Candela at the V&A

A luminuous green disc has brought light to a darkened room full of medieval tapestries. Scroll down to watch a video of the installation A

Design

Double Space: Barber Osgerby

The design duo has installed two moving mirrored panels in the ceiling of the Raphael Gallery at the V&A “Have you seen it turn yet?”

Design

Icon 136: Museums

Our October 2014 issue looked at the V&A’s mannequins, Tate Britain’s robots, Rogers’ British Museum extension and the politics of designing the 9/11 museum exhibits.

Opinion

Mannequins: A guide to dummies

In design and retail, the faces of mannequins are often featureless, their bodies reduced to torsos. At museums such as the V&A, they are sawn,

Design

Disobedient Objects at the V&A

Puppets from the radical Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater The raw anger, energy and wit of protest comes to genteel South Kensington. Alice Bell finds

Opinion

Gavin Grindon: Disobedient Objects at the V&A

DIY drones, subversive textiles from Chile and shields that look like books are just some of the objects on display at an exhibition that examines

Design

Rapid Response Collecting at the V&A

Katie Perry’s false eyelashes, a 3D-printed gun, Primark jeans and Christian Louboutin shoes are the latest additions to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection. We

Design

Amanda Levete: “When you are really pushing the limits, you are going to fail”

The architect’s esoteric collection of objects plays past against present, with ancient Greek pots alongside Sex Pistols magazines. It is a theme she explores in

Architecture

Editor's choice

The contemporary Magdalen House in Quebec brings a new perspective to coastal architecture

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

‘We need to talk more about trees’: David Venables of AHEC continues his quest for the preservation of forests and the people behind them

A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Finn Juhl and Sea New York’s collaboration finds a common thread

Vea by Villeroy & Boch: precision, elegance and the architecture of detail

Normann Copenhagen reissues Niels Bendtsen’s Limit Lounge Chair

‘Why not think of success as making people feel good?’: Signe Byrdal Terenziani on creating a more purposeful 3daysofdesign




Architects

The contemporary Magdalen House in Quebec brings a new perspective to coastal architecture

A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Vipp brings Scandinavian hospitality to Upstate New York

Iittala brings iconic Aalto Vase into public architecture for 3daysofdesign

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Travel architecture gets a vivid rethink in Dream in Progress


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ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

‘We need to talk more about trees’: David Venables of AHEC continues his quest for the preservation of forests and the people behind them

Finn Juhl and Sea New York’s collaboration finds a common thread

Normann Copenhagen reissues Niels Bendtsen’s Limit Lounge Chair

‘Why not think of success as making people feel good?’: Signe Byrdal Terenziani on creating a more purposeful 3daysofdesign

Tarkett presents Beginnings & Endings exhibition at 3daysofdesign

Yacht builder Sanlorenzo repositions its brand identity in a notable shift for the company

Carl Hansen & Søn partners with colour consultancy Etté to reimagine its Clerkenwell showroom

Ferm Living debuts newly refurbished London showroom



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The contemporary Magdalen House in Quebec brings a new perspective to coastal architecture

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

‘We need to talk more about trees’: David Venables of AHEC continues his quest for the preservation of forests and the people behind them

A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Finn Juhl and Sea New York’s collaboration finds a common thread

Vea by Villeroy & Boch: precision, elegance and the architecture of detail

Normann Copenhagen reissues Niels Bendtsen’s Limit Lounge Chair

‘Why not think of success as making people feel good?’: Signe Byrdal Terenziani on creating a more purposeful 3daysofdesign