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...The idea of a Studio Nicholson cupboard just makes total sense. “Doesn’t it?” she laughs. “I’d like a Studio Nicholson café, a tea cup, ashtray, sofa, luggage. Purposeful. I don’t want frippery!”...
...Christie’s Highlights from the oeuvre of Studio Ymer&Malta will be exhibited at the auctioneers on Avenue Matignon....
...The biggest challenge has been a shift in working as part of a team to sitting in a studio alone....
...“Where I lived, nobody knew anybody who was a professional artist — people wondered what I’d do when I finished,” he recalls....
...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....
...They include a kitchen window for a house in London, one for his own Notting Hill house and another striking, swirling round window for a house in Forte dei Marmi in Tuscany....
...Elevator pitch A grand hotel, a perfect location and, I’d say, a legend in the making....
...Andrew Lloyd Webber once saw it in the window of a Chelsea junk shop but his granny wouldn’t lend him the £50 he’d have needed....
...“I’d been trying to get it in paint and couldn’t. And then along came linocuts.” Thus artist Sybil Andrews summed up the possibilities offered by a novel method of printmaking....
..., formerly offices, into a hotel of 168 studios and suites, many with kitchens....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...But the rest of us can experience it – even if only for a short spell – by leaving Milan for the Parco dei Principi in Sorrento....
...The store feels like an artist’s studio, with floor-to-ceiling palms in huge ceramic pots and original artworks covering the walls....
...The group were early proponents of Pop Art, the US and UK movement that incorporated elements of popular culture and that would make Blake a star....
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
...Also on show will be work from Studio Truly Truly and New Tendency (founded by Bauhaus-educated Manuel Goller) that responds to the school’s creative process....
...The subsequent overhaul involved Greek architects AETER and K-studio as well as New York-based Meyer Davis....
...I don’t think I’d ever met an architect in my life before going to Cooper [where he studied architecture and gained his first degree in 1970]....
...Many designers have incorporated the theatrics of dance into their runway collections....
...And I’d say definitely an excuse for a weekend trip. Details Claire Wrathall was a guest of Nationalmuseum Sweden, open Tuesday to Sunday, admission free....
...I’m privileged to be in a city that was planned with help of the urban architect Jan Gehl. He made it such an extraordinarily liveable place....
...“You will always find her in her studio touching fabrics, trying on accessories, projecting herself into the pieces,” he says....
...Forme di Pompeo Polito, Via dei Coronari 217 (+3906-686 5294)....
...I’d love to be an architect, but I couldn’t face a seven-year course....
...What A two-bedroom flat, or “set”, on the second floor of Albany House, a complex built in 1770-74 and designed by William Chambers, architect of Somerset House....
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