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...Her work is now celebrated in a monograph, A Journey Painted in Clay (Unicorn, £25)....
...Handmade clay pots, a bench made from kauri (a native New Zealand timber) and a water feature were combined with containers of exotic plants such as tree ferns — which, although they are large plants, doesn...
...It’s why the London-based ceramic artist Lucy Smith — who creates botanical clay sculptures for residential and retail interiors, such as a Diptyque fragrance store — resorted to pre-casting Jesmonite (made...
...1950s wood and wrought-iron coat-hanger stand, €1,210, vntg.com Philips Iris table lamp, £94.99 Ralph Lauren Home stainless-steel Thorpe ice bucket and tongs set, £295 Mervyn Gers Ceramics stoneware-clay...
...Born and raised in Clay, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, he attended the State University of New York at Oneonta, followed by a degree at Harvard Law School....
...His installation for Venice, he tells me, is a four-metre-tall ziggurat composed of clay replicas of some of the thousands of religious and other ornamental objects looted by British troops during the punitive...
...The top of the sloping site, mulched with 15cm of sharp sand, displays drought-tolerant plants, while shade lovers are planted into the clay at the bottom of the slope through a mulch of green waste from...
...Each piece of traditional earthenware takes several weeks to make; the ceramics are cast in their moulds using clay from Stoke-on-Trent and left to dry before being hand-painted, fired, glazed and fired...
...Artists have devised events in abandoned silver mines (Los Angeles-based Cauleen Smith) or in meadows on local ranches (Thailand-born, New York-based Korakrit Arunanondchai)....
...Nerikomi, by contrast, involves hand-building and is impacted by the way the clay reacts once in the kiln.”...
...“It’s not just a programme or project,” added Andrew Smith, director of British Lithium. “It’s an industry being born in the UK.”...
...At a clay quarry a few miles north of St Austell, British Lithium has since 2017 been drilling granite that contains a small proportion of lithium, while developing a process at a nearby pilot plant to extract...
...Smith and I are on a grouse hunt....
...Clay is first pressed into moulds....
...He does not use pesticides or herbicides on his own heavy-clay garden in Bookham, Surrey....
...“Primo Levi talked about how they were made of the same clay as the bourgeoisie in any country,” he continues. “They really were Mr and Mrs Smith at No 26....
...Devonald Smith, who prefers to work by hand, first makes a model out of clay, which is slicked over with plaster of Paris and finally cast....
...Oliver Smith’s book ‘The Atlas of Abandoned Places’ is out now (Octopus, £20) Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Why Award-winning for its sustainability features, the timber-framed house is made with clay blocks for thermal mass and its external green walls are insulated with hemp in wood-fibre panels....
...Unlike a traditional carmaker, which uses full-scale clay models to hone its designs, Wu’s method is more technology-led....
...Heatwaves in recent weeks have sucked the moisture out of clay soils, unsettling houses. Sedgwick expects claims to reach 400 per cent above ordinary levels in the next few weeks....
...For “Zinodaka” (2022) she has created a richly toned, wall-to-wall “landscape”, spreading a mix of terracotta clay and sand across the floor, and dotting it with rocklike sculptures made of translucent blue...
...These were people who prized beauty as well comfort and cleanliness because sophisticated decorative objects have been unearthed too: clay vessels delicately painted with flowers, fish and birds; an exquisite...
...He has since made waves for Richard Quinn, where he appeared with bleached eyebrows, and Collina Strada, where he had his hair slicked with clay....
...Michael Hill Smith, an Australian winemaker, was in London recently to show off his latest venture, MMAD, named after the initials of the four partners involved....
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