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...Why Designed by architect David Jameson, the building has a distinctive geometric look, with its exterior clad in bronze panelling and clay brick tiles....
...The next morning, Morne’s equally charming son, Douglas, leads us through the heat to a cave beside a spring where he swam as a boy....
...The house’s frame is made from oak from the old barn, reinforced with local Douglas fir and clad in larch and sweet chestnut....
...Clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform pictographs record the bread-and-ale routines of everyday life in Mesopotamia around 3100BC....
...When they found that there was a lot of clay here, they came and dug up the raw materials to make the pieces. The clay is bright blue – incredibly beautiful.”...
...Encaustic tiles are made from clay and cement and are not glazed and decorated in the way that Portuguese or Delft ceramic tiles are....
...I’ve got a Henry Clay from 1848, and a Stephen Douglas from when he ran against Lincoln, but I’ve run out of wall space so I am toning down the collecting now....
...One of my big dishes costs 50p in clay, the glaze slightly less. I use transparent glaze alone given that I can barely cope with decisions about shapes for my hand-built (ahem) abstract forms....
...Nicole Douglas-Morris This difference between who owns a building and who lives in it is not new. Pippa Thistlethwaite was a long-term tenant at 81 Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia during the 1970s....
...But his collection has since swollen to 50 works, and includes pieces by established names such as Hito Steyerl, Douglas Gordon, William Kentridge and Omer Fast....
...Douglas Coupland once wrote in these pages that “somewhere in the past few years the present melted into the future”....
...Douglas MacArthur, head of the US occupation, understood this instinctively when he allowed Hirohito to remain in place, albeit “de-godded”, as he went about reorganising just about everything else in the...
...Why The property is a short walk from Hampstead Heath, where clay pits have been turned into public swimming ponds. Three pools are open year-round: one for ladies, one for men and one mixed....
...“The issue of resources is at risk of becoming existential [for the IMF],” says Douglas Rediker, the former US representative on the IMF board and founder of International Capital Strategies, a consultancy...
...This is the question that most troubles Douglas....
...Douglas Coupland’s new collection of stories and essays ‘Bit Rot’ is published by William Heinemann (£20). @dougcoupland Illustrations by James Joyce...
...Unbroken clay pipes?...
...The German plant hunter Philipp Seibold, who gave western gardens the flowering cherry Prunus x sieboldii, was arrested and accused of high treason in Japan; the Scot David Douglas, famed for the Douglas...
...Little filmic evidence has survived, so the director reconstructs scenes of suffering or horror with clay models. Sounds ridiculous?...
...For a while, Smith managed to delight the London dinner-party circuit while officially vicar of Foston-le-Clay in Yorkshire....
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...Douglas McNeill, economic policy adviser to the Conservative party, suggests a “history of asset prices, with little bubbles pointing out principal inflection points”....
...Wonder Boys was Chabon’s second novel, perhaps best known now for its adaptation into a film starring Michael Douglas....
...Even their owners - Douglas Smith and Piper Terrett - disagree. True, the ladies have already delivered more than 300 free range eggs since June when they began their professional lives....
...Visionary angels Dealing began on Wednesday in shares of Optos, the Scottish eyecare specialist founded by electronics designer Douglas Anderson in 1992 when his son, then five, lost the sight of an eye...
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