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...Johann Zoffany’s “The Family of Sir William Young” (1767-68), set on a bucolic English estate, centres on music-making and riding; the black servant is the only allusion to the source of Sir William’s fortune...
...Works by Williams range from $24,000-$55,000....
...A former bank, a handsome 1920s building, has become the Stony Island Arts Bank where the vast archives of Ebony and Jet magazines sit alongside the thousands of artefacts in the Edward J Williams Collection...
...Aged 24, Rogers quit William Blair, hired a friend from high school to be his deputy and embarked on a mission to set up his own shop....
...The house was commissioned and occupied by Louis Majorelle (1859-1926), a traditional furniture maker, or ébéniste, working with fine woods such as ebony....
...Williams shows his mother as part of a self-portrait, the practice he is known for....
...Both the ebony staff and the chain bear the gilded birds that represent the wooden parrot targets used in the guild’s shooting contests. The theme of this loan exhibition is a canny choice for Tefaf....
...In 2014, the architect William Russell, who worked with McQueen on the design of his fashion stores, carved up the 92,000 sq ft into offices, a large gallery space and 12 studios....
...Ebony is used for the fingerboard and pegs....
...The Chicago Gallery Moniquemeloche had a display by Ebony G Patterson of “bling funeral” coffins from the Jamaican carnival, decorated with colourful brocades and gold trimmings and mounted on poles....
...The valleys they crown once saw the frequent passage of the caravans of the great merchant houses bringing luxury goods – ebony, teak and sandalwood, elephant tusks and translucent Indian textiles, pepper...
...Green fronds drooped and dragged in the black water, which ran with silent currents, swirling out of oxbows into ebony cheeks where crocodiles lurked....
...One of those friends, the framemaker Herman Doomer, is represented by a spectacular ebony and mother-of-pearl cabinet....
...“I don’t think we’re really geared up,” says Pat Williams, who works in the bank. Her speech, like that of many Saints, is a beguiling kind of mid-Atlantic drawl with inflections of antique cockney....
...Studio Job is showing Perished from 2007, a series of pieces such as a traditional Dutch bench, a screen, a pedestal and a table handcrafted in Macassar ebony....
...Not overlooked here is a backgammon counter of the late 17th century, depicting William III on one side and St George on the other (£300-£400)....
...Named after the British monarchs William and Mary, it was an elegant interpretation of the continental baroque style....
...would actually have been $28,250 including tax – in exchange for which she would have had the run of 900 sq m of “flamed-granite” and cumaru wood floor strewn with Tibetan rugs; zebrawood panelling and ebony...
...Instead of mahogany, the woods will be traditional English, such as sycamore, ash, chestnut and oak, or exotically foreign, such as amboyna, wenge and ebony; the colours will be lighter; and the prices -...
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