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...The sport of defining a dwindling and then enfeebled aristocracy (in postwar Labour Britain) was also seized on by John Betjeman and Evelyn Waugh. The whole debate is extremely silly....
...It has already been a landmark year for fashion auctions, as collections of André Leon Talley and Grayson Perry’s dresses have gone under the hammer. But the most important one yet happens next week....
...Two of its philosophers, John Broome and the late Derek Parfit, spent their careers thinking about the moral need to account impersonally for the wellbeing and suffering of distant or future lives....
...For John Derian, the gnarlier, the better. “I think geraniums are such fascinating plants,” says the American designer and retailer. “I love letting them go wild and crazy....
...Best of the lot in my view is an eccentric masterpiece by Charles Holland and Grayson Perry, A House for Essex — a bizarre candy world of influences from the Vikings and Gaudi to Pop and PoMo....
...MS sahadis.com Spring To Go, Notting Hill, London Skye Gyngell’s new shop on Ledbury Road sells seasonal biodynamic flowers by Kitten Grayson, fruit and vegetables from both Heckfield Home Farm and Fern...
...Interiors and the super-rich Grayson Perry writes about his latest solo exhibition at London’s Victoria Miro Gallery — Super Rich Interior Decoration....
...‘On Board: The Insider's Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom’, by Sir John Tusa “Serving on a board is a responsibility and a privilege,” writes Sir John Tusa....
...hours and seasons lyrically defines the capital’s textures and atmosphere, bringing unity to all the series, which are gloriously displayed together for the first time in Hogarth: Place and Progress at Sir John...
...He skirts David Hockney warily, like a puddle in the road; Grayson Perry is “an omnipresent TV pundit”....
...The artist Grayson Perry’s Brexit vases, which have gone on display in a different part of the V&A, offer a sophisticated variant of the same approach, drawing on crowd-sourced suggestions from Remainers...
...John Ashbourne: The early signs point to a close race....
...Two years later, Červeňová won the prestigious John Kobal New Work Award for “Yngvild”, her portrait of a young woman in a contemporary domestic setting that had all the undercurrents of a pre-Raphaelite...
...FAT splintered in 2013 but former partner Charles Holland went on to finish one of the key landmarks of PoMo-revival with artist Grayson Perry, the lavish ceramic-clad House for Essex (2015)....
...Constable, John Singer Sargent, David Hockney and Tracey Emin....
.../ From John Read, London, UK...
...Grayson Brulte Beverly Hills, CA, US Co-Chair, Mayor of City of Beverly Hills Autonomous Vehicle Task Force...
...The Saint John River, however, is bucking the trend....
...john.gapper@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Seniors are key to market for autonomous vehicles / From Grayson Brulte...
...Birmingham library by Mecanoo, Leicester’s John Lewis store by Farshid Moussavi, the Nottingham Contemporary gallery by Caruso St John, each has featured a veneer of ornament applied to the façade but each...
...Yet I know there’s a better way — and it turns out to be available for hire in mid-Wales, in the form of John Pawson’s recently completed Life House....
...There was some dissent among architects about the commission of Grayson Perry and Charles Holland’s brightly decorated, fairytale “House for Essex”, a building too expressive to ever appear on the Stirling...
...Works by Grayson Perry, winner of the Turner Prize, the UK art award, regularly go for £20,000 and he has done much to glamorise the medium....
...The gleeful abandonment of “good taste” would become a FAT hallmark, realised most fully, perhaps, in one of its last projects, A House For Essex (2013), designed with Grayson Perry in the year that FAT...
...michael.skapinker@ft.com Twitter: @Skapinker Letter in response to this column: Businesses feel the brunt of housing shortages / From John Kent...
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