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...“Important designers’ pieces are signed, dated and catalogued,” emphasises Lucinda Wright of antique glass specialist Alderney & Wright, which sells via online marketplace vinterior.co....
...Not exactly fit for the V&A, but it worked just fine in a foyer around the corner from the Gare du Nord....
...“A few weeks later, I was looking through my bookshelves and found an old book on antique kimonos. One picture was the start of everything.”...
...The last thing I bought and loved was a blue sea-glass bracelet from the jeweller Lisa Hall. She and I have been collecting sea glass all our lives....
...But today it is filled with hundreds of stalls arranged in neat rows, flogging all manner of bric-a-brac: cut-glass wine goblets and sepia photographs, carriage clocks and trinket boxes, antique knives and...
...We model GM compression of -130bps due to a further impact from rising glass costs....
...Forget the simple glass vase — too boring....
...I bought it for my wife, Martine, in an antique shop in Nice....
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
...Reginald and Arthur had closely studied antique glass and made a decision to revive the 18th-century method of glass cutting, which involves incising “V” shaped grooves with two separate cuts rather than...
...Down the street, at Chequers Antiques, behind a desk jumbled with clocks, silver and old glass, Paul Hawtrey is a creature happily dug into its burrow....
...So we developed a coolant paste with water, aluminium oxide and cerium oxide, a type of glass powder.”...
...There is a press picture of the former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, looking quizzically at the cylinder in its glass case....
...One is that the development and spread of Christian art took place within a culture that never ceased looking back, in unbroken tradition, to the past....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Last year Moooi showed Front’s Blow Away vase in Milan and it has now been selected for the new ceramic galleries at London’s V&A museum....
...www.butchoff.com Judith Miller is the author of annual antiques and collectables guides for Millers. Her latest book, ‘Chairs’, will be published on August 24 (Conran Octopus,£40)....
...From €285 for eight pieces. www.kvadratclouds.com 2 Salim Alfredo Haberli Ruskstuhl would be a good place to start when looking for contemporary carpeting....
...When I was about seven I saw a picture in a magazine of a 1930s sash window and how it worked and I decided I wanted a complete one, which led to me looking at Victorian houses....
...Here in shades of blue and gold, it lends the porcelain a vibrant metallic or glass-like quality, depending on the light. $31,000. www.ragoarts.com iv Teapot Staffordshire PotteriesThis teapot, produced...
...www.whenobjectswork.com 2 Harp Ichiro Iwasaki Sfera, based in Kyoto, is a very outward-looking Japanese brand....
...www.lyonandturnbull.com v....
...At Puls V, an eye-catching steel and glass conversion, 102 flats were for sale....
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