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...Through sculpture, ceramics and textiles, Gates fuses Japanese craft with references to Black history and culture, including African masks and a Hammond B3 organ made popular by US jazz musician Jimmy Smith...
...London had its moment in 1851 with the Great Exhibition, the ghastliness and excess of which proved the trigger for improving design through institutions such as the V&A....
...registered with the Pewterers’ Company and any maker found to be selling substandard wares risked losing their mark and being unable to trade,” notes Angus Patterson, senior curator of metalwork at the V&...
...Abakanowicz, for instance, is represented by “Vêtement Noir” (1968) — “one of her massive, enveloping Abakan sculptures”, says Fray-Smith....
...“The techniques of installing are a craft practice. The designs can be made sometimes by artists and sometimes by enthusiastic craftspeople or amateurs....
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...The new look of utility is as much about a dramatic flourish as it is the romance of craft....
...With a modern, minimalist hull design, the X Shore 1 is powered by an electric set-up that produces 125kW, taking the craft to a top speed of 30 knots (34mph) and a 20-knot (23mph) cruising speed....
...After art school, Smith applied to the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons School of Design....
...Designs based on region or tradition, he believes, are simply too sentimental. “Trying to save craft. Trying to save the world. Forget it....
...Both spaces, created by interior design studio Halleroed, feel more like art galleries than tailor’s shops. “We generally don’t jump straight to talking about clothes with our clients,” says Amel....
...Having worked out how to run a business, and how to work for others, he is turning his attention to craft as the fundamental component of luxury and to slowing down production....
...Milakovic and his team are busy tweaking and refining the design, ensuring the next generation of J Craft has less impact on the environment....
...Designed for Swedish glassworks Orrefors in 1957, Äpplet has a place in design history – the V&A museum has one in its collection....
...Monáe have also embraced his designs....
...his Albemarle Street flagship to coincide with London Craft Week next month....
...Inevitably, any talk of the great watchmaker Daniels leads to discussion of his former apprentice-turned-successor, Roger Smith, who is a purist in the Daniels tradition: this summer a Roger Smith pocket...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Read more: The need to improve the economics of operating in deep oceans appears to have been behind a key, and highly risky, design decision in the construction of the Titan submersible....
...Terminal V did not respond to a request for comment....
...September 14 to January 19 2025; further information and tickets here London Design Festival Emerging talent and big names are celebrated equally in this display of London’s design landscape....
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...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....
...She never seems to lose energy or belief in the power of human ingenuity,” says Tim Marlow, director and CEO of the Design Museum....
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