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...The Sawiris, who are Coptic Christians, were targeted with tax grabs and a travel ban under former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, who swept to power in 2012 in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings but...
...Elsewhere, glazed organic forms made by mid-century Danish potter Axel Salto are paired with pieces by contemporary British ceramicist Edmund de Waal....
...Canadian potter John Reeve created a community of Mingei-style potters in Canada, while New Zealand potter Len Castle, who had worked with Hamada in Japan, pioneered his country’s studio pottery movement...
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...And although Chanel famously grumbled about the New Look, the cinched-in structured style championed by Christian Dior, she clearly took it into account....
...She also poses with a Korean-language edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone....
...It puts him in a tough place when talking to evangelicals, when talking to Christian nationalists that form part of his base....
...And in the 21st century it is still the norm, Quinn suggests, misguidedly to distinguish “the west”, a Christian culture with Greco-Roman or even earlier “Indo-European” roots, from “the east”, whether centred...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Having seen sales of vintage Christian Dior rise on the back of a V&A exhibition in 2019, Caplan expects the upcoming show to affect the “very robust” market for vintage Chanel costume jewellery....
...Model, Igor V at Tomorrow Is Another Day. Casting, Tiago Martins at Ben Grimes. Hair, Rimi Ura at Calliste Agency. Make-up, Mayumi Oda at Bryant Artists. Photographer’s assistant, Christian Varas....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Invented by Henry Cole, founder of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the museum that would become the V&A, Christmas cards have been commercially available since 1843....
...Players continue to flock to GTA V a decade after it was first released, thanks to a steady stream of new content and add-ons from its developer, Rockstar....
...This is not Saleem’s first collaboration with the V&A....
...His cousin sprites, joyous little “Spiritelli”, are bizarre fusions, derived from the pagan putto, adapted as celebratory figures associated with Christian baptism....
...Spall scowls; Toby Jones furrows; soon we have the gangling Harry Melling, once a young performer in the Harry Potter films, now introduced as E A Poe, fourth-year cadet....
...Five pieces – ranging from a stool to seating and lighting – pay homage to Christian Liaigre’s décor at Hôtel Costes, the A-list haunt on Rue Saint Honoré....
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...“Edmund is perhaps the potter — and writer — most intimately associated with the iconic material of porcelain,” says Alun Graves, the V&A’s senior curator of ceramics and glass, 1900 to present day....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Burleigh, another heritage potter, is not producing coronation ware at all. But Emma Bridgewater is confident. Royal occasions are a big deal for its customers....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...The priests have been organising months-long protests by mostly Christian fishermen in Kerala against the project, which was commissioned by the Congress-led state government in 2015....
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