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...Nurtured on conventional academic style, he reached for a radical aesthetic, shedding rococo frills for raw muscle. When the French Revolution exploded, he was ready....
...Whereas a brooch is chosen by a man as a real piece of jewellery and not to express a conventional male hobby.”...
...“I wanted my dishes to be as appealing as conventional china, even though their history is difficult. My grandmother’s plates gave her a great deal of pleasure....
...While the auction houses have given traditional jewellers a run for their money, they’ve also pushed a whole industry – which is generally conventional – to become more creative and to make the jewellery...
...They stand on a 16th-century Medallion Ushak carpet....
...stood a variety of stone mortars in which she’d crushed the avocados for our guacamole and pounded the pumpkin seeds she used to thicken the sauce in her pipián de venado, a spicy tomato-based stew of medallions...
...In a conventional taxi model, of course, prices are smoothed throughout the day to ensure off-peak rates pay for peak services at affordable rates — hence why there are never any taxis around when you need...
...The early conventional wisdom was that digital communication would substitute for face-to-face contact. It was summed up in the catchphrase “the death of distance”....
...Mr Chatti says the collection offered the chance to reinterpret the masculine symbolism of royal medallion chains....
...Sitting in his new home opposite the Bank of England, wearing a conventional suit rather than his ceremonial ermine coat and gold medallion, Mr Wootton says it will be his job to help tackle the “problem...
...At a time when clothes very much made the man (and woman – he and Caroline Lamb made quite a sight) the turban and the velvet-gold coat, the swag of muslin pantaloons, signified ebullient contempt for conventional...
...They weren’t for sale – he supported himself carving small alabaster medallions to order – but they consumed most of his time....
...These watches have little to do with telling the time, or even conventional notions of good taste....
...So, you have a big market out there, and the indication is you go anywhere, you see the pawnshops, that’s an indication that that market is never reached by a conventional bank....
...In reverse, the artist who painted a landscape was purely conventional, but to find the similitude of a tree in a slice of malachite was a marvel. Such collections were the precursor of the museum....
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