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...The gleaming train before you displays Hans Hartmann’s impeccable double-arrow motif (1972), with its trilingual cipher by the great Josef Müller-Brockmann demonstrating how Swiss signage caters for Switzerland...
...The space has been rethought by London-based architect Alex Cochrane, with plaster roundels of artists Louis-François Roubiliac, Hans Holbein the Younger and Francis Leggatt Chantrey overlooking the wares...
...Josef Kieffer, head of the SS intelligence agency in Paris (Chris Porter)....
...The company “needed to find the recipe to become more relevant again”, says chief executive Josef Kaiser....
...A wall featuring the Josef Frank clover wallpaper designed for Svenskt Tenn appeared on countless feeds....
...music critic by night, and his wife Ann, founder of the Association of Women Housing Managers: their flair, informed by the pleasures of musical harmony and composition, was for abstraction — Juan Gris, Hans...
...The lust list currently includes a Josef Frank découpage Flora cabinet, a curvy 1950s Alvar Aalto pine screen and immaculate Hans Wegner armchairs in oak and cane....
...“Before, they were all about patiently negotiating with like-minded leaders, something she’s very good at — but now it’s more like a prize fight,” says Josef Janning, senior policy fellow at the European...
...and America, by Alan Powers ,Thames & Hudson RRP£24.95 304 pages Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain, by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, Batsford RRP£25 240 pages Bauhaus Architecture 1919-1933, by Hans...
...Stars such as Hans Wegner (Danish), Alvar Aalto (Finn), Carl Hansen (Danish), Arne Jacobsen (Danish) — and their rip-offs — dominate design shops. But no Swedish names come to mind....
...A decade ago public criticism was severe after it emerged that Ms Merkel hosted a 60th birthday party for Josef Ackermann, then Deutsche’s chief executive....
...More recently, Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now ) and Hans Rosling (Factfulness) stress humanity’s global progress....
...I’m not really a soft-furnishings type of guy, but this high-quality, knitted-effect fabric is really contemporary and would be perfect on my early-edition Hans Wegner dining chairs. £102.60 per sq m; 132...
...Franz-Josef Selig blustered conscientiously as the sea-dog Daland, the nice captain who blithely sells his daughter to a rich stranger....
...This survey covers all the key figures, including Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann and Hans Hollein, to explain how this small city has maintained its fascinating radical traditions and an architecture of surprising...
...David Zwirner sold all its Carol Bove sculptures (up to $550,000) and four William Eggleston photographs ($185,000 each) at Frieze, as well as works by Ruth Asawa, Josef Albers and Anni Albers at Tefaf (...
...Josef took me on a tour of the organ loft. It was high above the pews and full of ramshackle furniture, and this messiness felt friendly, intimate....
...It’s madness,” said Hans-Joachim Watzke, Borussia’s chief executive. “I hope the rest of the background can be cleared up, because for us as a club and a team it would be very important.”...
...Josef Hartwig designed a series of chess pieces for Bauhaus from 1923-24 that embodied some of the core tenets of the school: “symmetry, angularity, abstraction, sharpness”....
...The world was reminded of this 1960s catchphrase when its progenitor, Austrian architect Hans Hollein, died last year....
...Han Qing, a doctor from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian who works at a Chinese medicine clinic in Moscow, says his Russian patients are a complete mystery to him....
...For this, you need to head to the long-established dealers such as Hans P. Kraus Jr, based in New York, or Robert Hershkowitz, in Sussex....
...Josef Braml, an expert on transatlantic relations at DGAP, a think-tank in Berlin, says the US is now a “weak superpower” whose surveillance activities are driven by insecurity....
...In 1984, Franz Josef II passed on his executive powers to his son, leaving him in charge of running the country that his family has ruled since 1719....
...Their main complaint against Mr Kagermann is that he is one of a few remaining board members to have overseen the bank’s haphazard search for a successor to Josef Ackermann, the former chief executive, and...
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