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...Similar in tone are British ceramic artist Hannah Simpson’s playful, biomorphic clay lamps, which feature deep brown squares wiggling up the legs of one base (£460): her You table lamp (£370) sees forest-green...
...Antecedents are Jean Arp’s and Henry Moore’s biomorphic abstractions, but their forms are fixed, usually in bronze. By contrast, flux, process, transience and mixed media are keynotes here....
...Charles I, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I stayed here but, by the time Taylors arrived, the house was largely ruined and Rycote’s lake was a scrubby area of alder and willow....
...From clay models to plaster moulds and finally the finished bronze sculptures, they stand like sentinels....
...“With ‘Zinodaka’, you have to walk on the clay, feel it crack beneath you, leave your footprints and perhaps take some of it with you,” says Laurence Sillars, head of the Henry Moore Institute and curator...
...A pastel is a stick of pure colour without almost any liquid vehicle, just a bit of binder to keep it together and some chalk or clay to change the tone....
...Then the English came, including Sir Henry Wallop, who rebuilt Enniscorthy Castle....
...The short-story writer O Henry lived nearby, and wrote “The Gift of the Magi” at one of the tables. (Or so the legend goes....
...We would stroll through Henry Clay Frick’s Gilded Age mansion goggling at the amazing art that the American industrialist managed to accumulate....
...I soon learnt from fellow volunteers and LWT staff that the woodland once crowned the clay uplands that run from just south of Deptford to Selhurst....
...Holland Studio £45 Glazed earthenware clay pieces by fashion designer Holland, who moved to ceramics in 2020. henryhollandstudio.com Vegetable dinner plates by The Sette from £25 each Part of the brand...
...On Morgan’s death, Henry Clay Frick bought them and gave them a new room, which they continue to occupy in New York’s Frick Museum. The hollyhocks in the panels are double-flowered....
...There’s a “seafood platter”: king scallops in a green hot sauce, wild ocean prawns grilled in red tandoori paste and, best of all, rock oysters in coconut sauce....
...Clay Frick’s mansion on Fifth Avenue (now the Frick Collection) and also of the New York Public Library....
...The green plaque could be added to Jones’s St John’s Wood home the year after his death....
...John D Rockefeller Sr was one of the wealthiest men of all time, with an estimated net worth of $340bn in today’s terms....
...It is hard not to trace Paolozzi’s confectioner’s palette — he titled one work “Who’s Afraid of Sugar Pink and Lime Green?”...
...Grapes are kept with their skins intact for six months in 200-litre clay amphoras, lined with beeswax....
...The pros can’t say, ‘Sir Philip, [ his friend, retail billionaire Philip Green] are you running out of money?’ Philip loves that.”...
...For now, I am given clothes to look more the part – green Wellington boots and a tweed jacket in the Petworth check – and taken outside for some clay pigeon shooting....
...In 1912, industrialist Henry Clay Frick started work on a New York residence with architect Thomas Hastings that would double as an extensive gallery....
...The tot suddenly felt compelled to mash the butter like clay. “I started to step on it,” recalls Kelly, a mischievous glint in his watery blue eyes....
...Soon after, light shoots down a side canyon, turning the trees effervescent green....
...Green Park, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens form a grassy tapestry which still makes the centre of the city one of the greenest (and least dense) anywhere....
...I am sitting in the tiny dining room of a Victorian cottage in Fulham, west London, tucked beside the railway, drinking tea out of some beautiful green ash glazed stoneware cups....
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