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...When Gela Nash-Taylor, the American co-founder of fashion brand Juicy Couture, and her husband John Taylor, bass guitarist in Duran Duran, bought 15th-century South Wraxall Manor in 2005, they enlisted Kime...
...The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government by David Torrance Bloomsbury £20, 336 pages Age of Hope: Labour, 1945 and the Birth of Modern Britain by Richard Toye Bloomsbury Continuum...
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...“There is a similar one in the V&A; it’s now worth in excess of £5,000.”...
...The auction component includes Dreweatts-Bloomsbury, Baldwins and Malletts, which has a 20 per cent stake in the Masterpiece fair....
...The back is engraved with a world map, the celebrated “V” for victory symbol and a dedication: “1939 — Prime Minister Winston Spencer Churchill — 1945”....
...“The profile of Huachen, with about $100m in yearly turnover, is very like that of our members,” says Triple-A executive chairman Stephan Ludwig of Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions....
...He says: “British Modernism was conspicuous by its absence at last year’s Modernism show at the V&A. “We have amassed hundreds of items from this period, including more than 100 posters....
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