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...“There’s an ever-growing appetite for craft, particularly craft relevant to our modern lives,” she says of the brand’s kitchenware (from £10.50), lighting (from £99) and blankets (from £75) sourced from...
...Nearly a century later, Terence Conran (Habitat) and Bárbara Hulanicki (Biba) brought good design to the people. Sadly, in this country our champions of design are fast disappearing....
...What emerges is a portrait of a maker interested in what is gained when we craft by hand....
...At her Warsaw home, Maria Katarzyna Krętowska is surrounded by memories of her grandmother — the Polish artist Barbara Levittoux-Swiderska (1933-2019)....
...Noble Daughters bow bands are the next step up, and help to preserve traditional craft techniques on Ireland’s north-west coast....
...The miracle here is Brâncuşi’s journey, in a decade, from Romanian craft tradition to modern emblems of speed and flight anticipating Concorde....
...There’s the Buck Stop Coffee Shop and Buckhorn Restaurant, where the drinks menu has garnered attention across central California (the expected regional wines, craft beers and mezcal cocktails are joined...
...The best here is exuberant, daring to be humorous; the worst is an overload of samey textile works, arguing for regional craft-as-art, and names that bring diversity but not much more; the show’s largest...
..., as seen in Barbara Sansoni’s geometric handwoven textile works suspended from the ceiling....
...Flicking through the exhibition catalogue, it’s hard to avoid comparisons to artists such as Moore, Giacometti and Barbara Hepworth....
...Alongside the fashion, the craft and the art, there is Cycene (meaning kitchen in old English), a warmly decorated restaurant that seats only 15 and is headed by the engaging British chef Theo Clench....
...Throughout his career, this was Mandela’s genius: not just his capacity to perform, but to craft the persona required by the politics of the moment....
...The grooming staples I’m never without are Dr Barbara Sturm for my skin, and a dry brush. But I don’t have two hours in the morning to use a roller on my face....
...He really works his craft on stage – he knows how to get the crowd going. You see it at the shows we’ve been doing, by the end they’re a massive celebration.”...
...This includes highlighting often unsung crafts people and women artists. Another issue for some is that these pretty houses were created exclusively for the haute bourgeoisie....
...Betty always fought against the hierarchies that separated craft from art and never disavowed the kitchen table as a nexus of creativity....
...Two, the administration itself has been struggling to craft and articulate a new trade policy for the post-neoliberal world (sorry Ed, I know you hate the phrase, but it’s being used by many folks inside...
...As strict divisions between visual art and craft are loosened, he adds, there’s more space for makers such as Collingwood, who died in 2008, to be acknowledged....
...It’s an area that has become increasingly popular with expats, who have come in search of solitude, new opportunities, craft communities and the chance to start again....
...Around the same period, he chaired cultural institutions including the Courtauld Institute and the Craft Council....
...At The Firehouse, 20 flats in a converted Arts and Crafts style fire station are now priced from £730,000; at 21 Belsize Lane, an upscale recent block of 10 apartments, prices start at£1.2mn....
...Bangle, Barbara Crowe (1960s) Having worn her silver and gold bangle “most days” after buying it at a craft fair in the 1960s, Gestetner was “devastated” to arrive on holiday five years ago to find it missing...
...Make-up, Francelle Dally at Home using Love+Craft+Beauty. Manicure, Frances Liang for Flora1761. Photographer’s assistants, Grady Corbitt and Dean Dodos. Digital operator, Heath McBride....
...“Growing up in Denmark, there is this tradition of craft and artisanship, and whether that’s with furniture or jewellery, it’s the same history of knowing the craft and using the craft to do what you want...
...In Tate Modern’s current collection display – positioned next to a wall of Guerrilla Girls’ posters and a bold Barbara Kruger – is a depiction of a bathroom....
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