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...Canadian potter John Reeve created a community of Mingei-style potters in Canada, while New Zealand potter Len Castle, who had worked with Hamada in Japan, pioneered his country’s studio pottery movement...
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
..., The Pillowman and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are just a few of the 50 works that make up Good Chance Theatre’s online charity auction....
...Players continue to flock to GTA V a decade after it was first released, thanks to a steady stream of new content and add-ons from its developer, Rockstar....
...He relishes this volatility and unpredictability and the very imperfections that Chinese potters spent millennia attempting to eradicate or rectify....
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...“Edmund is perhaps the potter — and writer — most intimately associated with the iconic material of porcelain,” says Alun Graves, the V&A’s senior curator of ceramics and glass, 1900 to present day....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Burleigh, another heritage potter, is not producing coronation ware at all. But Emma Bridgewater is confident. Royal occasions are a big deal for its customers....
...Watching potter Paul Mossman at work inspired him to invest in his own wheel and kiln, despite having no experience handling clay....
...A Harry Potter superfan, she wrote a blog with voluminous entries about everything from her favourite books to the merits of kayaks (“clearly one of the best ways for humans to get around water”)....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Richard Batterham: Studio Potter, which was published alongside a new exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...‘Richard Batterham: Studio Potter’, until September 26, V&A; vam.ac.uk Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...The two invested in Duowei, a Chinese-language media site founded by an exiled journalist named Ho Pin....
...The Korean Wave opens September 24, V&A ‘Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style’ by Fiona Bae, (Thames & Hudson), will be published in the UK & Ireland on 22 September 2022...
...The latest is a print by German artist Elena Helfrecht, whose series, Unternächte (Night), explores magic, dreams, rituals and clairvoyance. themothhouse.com Whisky that benefits the V&A Dundee As part...
...“When I first started making art I would lead with being a potter more than a conceptual artist. I wore it as a badge of honour. This is a continuation of that making of vessels....
...There are rugged hunks of clay by Bath-based potter Paul Philp, while the shapely, off-white pique-fleur vases by French ceramicist Cécile Daladier are shown with arrangements by florist Frida Kim....
...The trio of exhibitions stretching from the V&A to the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube also reveals a fearsome curator....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
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