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...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...Then there is the Company School – work created for British and French administrators who took over when the Mughal empire faded....
...“When I’m on the factory floor painting, all the staff are excited about what I’m doing — especially when I mention that I’m a Stokie,” she says....
...Eventually Schwartz would buy a textile manufacturing company in 1954, which led to him making a substantial fortune; he sold it to Standard Oil of Indiana in 1968....
...Courtauld as “the most wonderful painting in existence”....
...In the $164bn paint market, which is dominated by global manufacturers such as Sherwin-Williams, PPG and Akzo Nobel, consumers are bearing the brunt as producers increase prices to protect margins in the...
...Next I try Curious Alice, a custom-built “VR experience” created by the V&A with game production company Preloaded....
...As a young girl I studied with George Balanchine at the New York City Ballet Company....
...of the show: that very year he had, it seemed, been the first man to play Henry V and Hamlet....
...The DeMorgans and suffrage Evelyn De Morgan, William’s wife, was an equally accomplished artist, painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style alongside Edward Burne-Jones....
...Between 1882 and 1900, P&O (formerly Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation) commissioned the Arts & Crafts tiler William De Morgan to work on 12 ships....
...The museum has been designed by Thomas Heatherwick’s studio on the V&A Waterfront, whose management company has funded the building’s ZAR500m ($38m) redevelopment....
...by Sherwin-Williams....
...On the one hand, the tradition of European landscape painting that he had been schooled in, with its lushness, its incised V-shapes and receding planes....
...Painting by numbers is not child’s play in the case of Sherwin-Williams. The figures are equivocal for the US paint company....
...Jonathan Foyle is chief executive of World Monuments Fund Britain The exhibition “William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain” runs at the V&A in London from March 22 until July 13...
...Akzo Nobel’s shares tend to trade at a discount to US peers such as Sherwin-Williams, but they now look pricey on 14 times earnings. If Mr Büchner delivers, the rating will be justified....
...Other members of the group are Lyon & Turnbull, Lawrences of Crewkerne and the Russian art specialist William MacDougall....
...And he loves this indifference to hardcore classicism, reckons it a signal characteristic of British art, a V-sign stuck in the face of academic draftsmanship....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...A judge in Regina v....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...www.gorringes.co.uk v D-end dining table Irish Made around 1830, this is a typical example of a late-Georgian extendable dining table....
...William Fullerton and John Wombwell, however, both Company men, had themselves painted with Indian accoutrements, Indian servants splendidly clad, and hookahs at the ready....
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