Tag: Culture
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How we made the Brompton folding bike
Andrew Ritchie, inventor: ‘I set out to make a magic carpet you can keep in your pocket. It’s been a perilous journey’
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Britain’s craft boom produces new model artisan army
From furniture to ceramics, small-scale businesses – all 12,000 of them – are satisfying consumer demand for ethical, handmade goods
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Top London museums focus on our obsession with the shoe
Three major summer exhibitions will highlight how footwear can define and transform us
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The future of luxury goods – from toxic waste urns to a compass that helps you get lost
A refreshing new exhibition at the V&A questions what luxury is and where it’s heading … and proves that £100k watches and fabulous fur hats count for nothing if you don’t have the ultimate luxury of time and space
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Beyond the bling: the most pointless luxuries ever
A bubble-bath necklace? A DNA vending machine? An unwearable gold hat that took 12 years to weave? Through a collection of priceless, pointless and surprising objects, the V&A’s new exhibition asks: what is luxury?
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Cardigan Castle to reopen after £12m restoration
After a long campaign, Welsh 12th-century castle with Georgian house and Regency gardens opens to the public with exhibition and accommodation