During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese VietCong guerrillas built a vast network of tunnels in the south of the country as part of the insurgency against the South Vietnamese government and their American allies. The tunnel network was a key base and shelter for the North Vietna ...Show more
The creation of the modern kitchen
In 1926, Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky created the modern kitchen. It was called the Frankfurt Kitchen and was something she didn’t like to talk about as she had done so much more - she was her country's first female architect, she championed women's rights and pl ...Show more
Personnalités des plus fascinantes et des plus anticonformistes de la Vienne des années 1900. Emilie Flöge, créatrice de mode et muse secrète de Klimt. Dans les années 1890, Gustav Klimt est subjugué par l'élégance d'Emilie Flöge. Avec sa silhouette longiligne, son teint de porce ...Show more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the influential painters at the heart of the French Impressionist movement: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). The men in her circle could freely paint in busy bars and public spaces, while Morisot captured the domestic world and found new, daring ...Show more
Gustave Klimt, peintre symboliste, figure majeure de l’Art Nouveau. Il continue aujourd’hui encore à décorer les murs des salons, les tasses et les parapluies. Gustave Klimt, le peintre en or dont les chefs d’œuvres sont les plus reproduis au monde. "Le Baiser", toile gigantes ...Show more
Episode Description: In this episode, The Duchess meets Viscountess Gage of Firle Place. Lady Gage share with us the incredible art collection at Firle, we learn about the eclectic female poet that became a central figure in Christian mysticism. Emma also talks to Lady Gage about ...Show more