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...Few individuals since Christopher Wren in the 17th century or John Nash at the turn of the 19th have left such a personal footprint on the map of London....
...It’s a particularly English way of doing things (past exponents also include the gimlet-eyed Christopher Gibbs). “In the US we don’t have that tradition....
...When the show is over, Nash steps out from backstage, somersaults high in the air and is met with thunderous applause....
...Next came the elegant late-Georgian Regency style of Nash terraces and Bath’s Royal Crescent....
...The agent suggested Parnham House, a stately home that had been renovated by John Nash in the early 1800s....
...So do the Carlson family, owners of the Radisson hotel chain, and the family of John Nash, the late hedge fund giant....
...We could add to that: William Morris, Ravilious china, the watercolours of Paul Nash, 17th-century Delft pottery and myriad other ingredients....
...This is the gallery’s most ambitious exhibition to date, ranging across conflicts in Europe, Japan, Vietnam, the Middle East, and including artists from Paul Nash, Christopher Nevinson and Otto Dix to Katie...
...Nevinson’s “La Mitrailleuse”, where trenches and soldiers are reduced to angular shapes, with definitions between human flesh and heavy artillery blurred – to Paul Nash’s charred landscapes and elegiac,...
...I have to go with Christopher Guest in This is Spinal Tap: “Turn it up to 11.” ——————————————- ‘The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way . . . And It Wasn’t My Fault . . ....
...Christopher Nevinson, on the other hand, returned from Fry’s 1910 show and immediately announced his new allegiance in a self-portrait built up from rigid lines and overlapping cubo-futurist planes....
...This embraced not only classical tradition (exemplified, for example, by John Nash, who designed Clarence House) but also the development of affordable housing, which he insisted should be “pepper-potted...
...Review by Christopher Fowler...
...My favourite historically informed set is Christopher Hogwood – the 1980 CD version, not the later DVD remake....
...He is humble about occupying a seat once filled by Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Isaac Newton and Ernest Rutherford: “I can’t compare to these giants that have gone before.”...
...This is Christopher Le Brun, painter and president of the Royal Academy, on the annual Summer Exhibition....
...His collection also includes works by high-profile artists such as Christopher Wool, Wade Guyton and Franz West....
...In a letter to Paul Nash, he wrote: “After an abstract period what a release one feels!”...
...“The founders of Juicy Couture, Pamela [Skaist-Levy] and Gela [Nash-Taylor], were such visionaries. They had a pure brand view that they wanted to get out to the world,” she says....
...The major exception was the plan by architect/developer John Nash to create a West End spine, a grand processional route from Regents Park to the river....
...Chichester, with its 11th-century cathedral, medieval marketplace and John Nash terraces, is the picture-perfect English country town, with an art collection to match....
...dragged by four oxen which, when the fleets come in, carry the silver and gold bars from the portside to the Trading House of the Indies,” wrote Alonso Morgado, a 16th-century historian quoted in Elizabeth Nash...
...The Bond Street dealer usually brings only contemporary work to the fair, but this year has mounted a handsome section devoted to modern British art that includes works by Paul Nash, Christopher Wood and...
...Then it’s past the grand jumble of historic buildings along Great Portland Street to enter Regent’s Park via John Nash’s stunning Regency crescent....
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