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...“The hallway was a tight spot with high traffic, so the work needed to be robust and not stick out too far from the wall,” she says of the David Collins-designed show apartment....
...Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester (William Collins) From clay tablets to digital ones, Winchester explores 5,000 years of human...
...Clay is first pressed into moulds....
...Clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform pictographs record the bread-and-ale routines of everyday life in Mesopotamia around 3100BC....
...A recent acquisition is the Jupiter chair by Mac Collins, a British designer from Nottingham who is of Jamaican descent....
...Noha’s “Reunion IV: Burning Curiosity” (2022) is a two-legged anthropomorphic vessel made in terracotta clay — a contrast to Harewood’s collection of delicately painted 18th-century porcelain....
...Multimedia artist Tsherin Sherpa will use the inaugural Nepal pavilion as a chance to break down the country’s stereotype as a mythical utopia, while Kampala-based artists Acaye Kerunen and Collin Sekajugo...
...The cover of London Clay cleverly distils the book’s entire premise into one striking image....
...“We had to create habitats, so we picked up the clay and began to weave the willow and carve the wood. Craftspeople have been working very closely with nature right from the word go.”...
...If you like your martinis dry and your thread count high, there’s the luxurious Bath Club at 5937 Collins Avenue. It boasts three acres of private beach and two clay tennis courts....
...Jeanes eventually found a building manufacturer in Blackburn, who made the table from clay moulds that were fired and glazed using a delicate technique developed in ancient Egypt called faience....
...GOD IS LOVE, it declares in huge bubble letters rolled from clay. REPENT, it instructs. REPENT NOW. A crucifix sprouts from its summit like a beanstalk....
...Ms Ringnes said it would not matter if Norske Selskab were a clay pigeon shooting club....
...“Tactility has never been more important, with many designs hand-cut in stoneware clay or rolled out by hand,” she says....
...It happened to Clay Christensen’s hypothesis on “disruptive innovation”. It happened to Toyota’s “lean” production system....
...So too is a tea set which features in the 1727 painting “The Tea Party”, attributed to Richard Collins....
...Collin LaFleche; Alamy...
...Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis, by Catrine Clay, William Collins, RRP£20, 316 pages Antonia Macaro is author of ‘Reason, Virtue and Psychotherapy’ (Wiley...
...The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood, by Richard Fortey, William Collins, RRP£22, 304 pages Melissa Harrison is author of ‘Rain: Four Walks in English Weather’ (Faber)...
...Starting with pencil and clay, the shape of this table was ultimately developed by computer, through a unique system of rapid prototyping. “The analogy,” Bengtsson explains, “is with a plant seed....
...Max Hastings’s new book ‘Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’ is published this week by William Collins...
...This mud – the Gault or blue clay – is Hoo’s glory. Fired in a kiln with chalk it is used to make cement and 557,000 tonnes of blue clay was dug from West Hoo Creek between 1881 and 1907....
...But Collins is a beguiling, soothing interviewee, and a great enthusiast....
...We use crushed brick or expanded clay granules, which are like the honeycomb inside Maltesers: they weigh nothing but they soak up water.”...
...“It’s slightly subversive, which is something children love,” Collins says....
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