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...Jean-Servais Somian Working with fallen trees, including coconut, idigbo and ebony, Ivory Coast-based artist and designer Jean-Servais Somian crafts totem-like furniture....
...If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...John Johnson, who built a publishing empire from scratch that included the Ebony and Jet magazine franchises, and George Johnson, who created one of the US’s largest cosmetic companies, were living examples...
...An early-18th-century ebony table with mother-of-pearl inlay that came from Woburn Abbey is where their son Leo, a budding DJ, has set up his mixing deck....
...The house was commissioned and occupied by Louis Majorelle (1859-1926), a traditional furniture maker, or ébéniste, working with fine woods such as ebony....
...It opens into a grand reception hall, with chandeliers and an 18th-century terrazzo marble floor....
...Rawlins’ “Empowerment” (2018), a surreal digital print of a clenched fist emerging from a china tea cup — itself a response to a seminal essay on sugar and empire by the late cultural theorist Stuart Hall...
...He let himself fall for any number of deceptions — a distorted Elizabethan coin; mock-Tudor ebony chairs from India’s Coromandel coast....
...In 2013, he was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. Booker is survived by his second wife, Carol, three children and many grandchildren....
...His 7.5m-wide depiction of the militia of District VIII, for instance, dominated the arquebusiers’ meeting hall for which Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” was also painted....
...Poised on the scaffolding for the new town hall, Jacob van Ruisdael drew an intricate aerial view of Amsterdam on a scrap of paper no bigger than the palm of a hand....
...Also among this coterie of gem specialists is Graff, in which ebony and leather combine with floor-to-ceiling lacquered European walnut panels to create a sense of occasion....
...The piano, created by renowned wood-designer Frank Pollard, features the iconic Fibonacci spiral on the veneer and is made entirely from natural Macassar ebony....
...It was a typical English village-hall pantomime, except for one thing: in the audience were various clients of Shape, St Helena’s charity for the disabled....
...In recent years several of the halls have collapsed....
...Fine European Furniture, Sculpture and Works of Art Bonhams London, July 4 Fancy owning a 17th-century gem-studded ebony cabinet?...
...An off-the-shoulder ebony gown, worn by Anna during an inappropriate waltz with Count Vronsky, is fashioned with enough satin (15 metres) to silence fellow courtiers in the dance hall....
...Hotel designers GA Design International sited a 10-seat makassar ebony dining table beneath a gold-leaf ceiling in a mirrored oval dining room....
...The mop of ebony black hair shows no sign of fading, let alone receding. He is wearing a white shalwar and cream kameez and brown Peshawari chapal (sandals)....
...There were wall plaques in black karappa, diamonds, ebony and mink, hand-tufted “parquet” carpets and, most extravagant of all, this compact chandelier....
...The frames are made in waxed, ebony-coloured American walnut finished with burnished brass feet and the seats are scooped out beneath the anthracite grey, aniline calf leather cushions....
...hall feeling nostalgic for a very stagey brand of Victoriana, which itself harked back to better days....
...And though the speech won headlines around the world, in the hall where it was delivered, it received only two seconds of applause....
...Vertically below lay the keyboards of four huge ebony Steinway pianos, drawn up like tanks with the audience in their sights. Behind them lay a cavalry of snare drums, bells and gongs....
...The hallway of her own London house has been painted with yellow-ochre and off-white checks, while she gave the hall in a client’s Edwardian house a smart grey-and-white checked floor....
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