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...The finest and rarest volumes from UK country houses went to genuine book lovers such as John Pierpont Morgan (whose wonderful personal library is now one of New York’s most elegant museums)....
...They want the gilding for the money.” To maintain both popularity and authority, the monarchy has to combine intimacy with distance....
...Commissions from designers — such as Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler or Reath Design studio in the US — are a constant. “Once people buy, they come back,” Martinez Mansell says....
...Devotees of the London restaurant St John will no doubt be excited to learn that the establishment is now selling its notorious D.R. Henderson elixir by the bottle....
...I try gilding with Sean Phelan, who learnt his craft as an apprentice in Fulham. He now does bespoke work that includes gilding inlays on furniture – or anything the client may want....
...John Roth, chairman of Nortel Networks, the Canada-based company with more than 100 years of history, summed up the sentiment that was typical in the industry....
...Andrew Gilding, managing director of Peter Gilding, an importer of fresh fruit, said he had already had conversations with wholesalers and retailers about passing the cost of tariffs....
...Gordon Sondland, US ambassador to the EU, said there had been “too much gilding the lily and not enough substance” over the years....
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...Precious fragments of original fabric will have to be kept and reinstated, details replicated where necessary, delicate gilding and carving applied....
...He hung out with men such as Cy Twombly, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns and John Cage, all of whom shaped each others’ visions....
...The dying John of Gaunt deplores England’s descent from “this other Eden — demi paradise” to a realm that “hath made a shameful conquest of itself”....
...Working as a signwriter is not easy, says John Pope, another with a fine art background....
...Their brilliant enamel hues and gilding gleam in the hall’s stygian gloom. When Scott acquired this great cabinet 32 years ago, the underbidders were Gilbert & George....
...Yet the earl had noted the early rise of some notable designers: the Adam brothers from Edinburgh, John and Robert....
...John Nash, who planned Regent Street, executed it as a jerry-built developers’ terrace....
...A trip to the top of St Paul’s Cathedral revealed that gilding “is what makes things ping within the city landscape”....
...art that reflected their new-found wealth and sophistication, artists fused the mannered, linear elegance of traditional Gothic with a new celebration of the natural world and abundance of rich pigment, gilding...
...“Before then they were inns but in the 1830s and 1840s completely new types of structures arrive; gas lights, glass, gilding and their bright colours....
...The riverside pad required transport, and in 1731 Kent designed for him a state barge, built by John Hall....
...Six subsequent chapters tackle classical approaches to space, scale and light and craft techniques such as marquetry, eglomise, inlay and gilding....
...At the John Jay College auditorium on Wednesday, however, Peter Sellars insisted on gilding Kurtág’s exquisitely wilted lily....
...One of the most striking examples is John Hardy, the Canadian jeweller based in Bali who sells his upmarket pieces mostly in the US....
...John Bond, barbarian Sir John Bond’s appointment as a senior adviser to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, perhaps the world’s best-known buy-out group, is not the first time that a plain-vanilla banker has been...
...Some would also argue that the Protestant sobriety and democratic aspirations of American settlers steered them away from the extravagant carvings and gildings that adorned European pieces....
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