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...“This is not about Japanese-ness — this is the art of everybody,” says Yuko Kikuchi, head of academic programmes at the V&A, who worked with Inglesby on the exhibition and contributed a chapter to its accompanying...
...Invented by Henry Cole, founder of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the museum that would become the V&A, Christmas cards have been commercially available since 1843....
...He took it up at school and was taught in St Ives by Bernard Leach, co-founder of Leach Pottery, before setting up a studio in Durweston in Dorset....
...Or the other way to think about it is if like, your list is like, I want a black V-neck cashmere sweater, it’s like, well, what is the best version of that black V-neck sweater?...
...The trio of exhibitions stretching from the V&A to the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube also reveals a fearsome curator....
...In craft, it was the tradition of Bernard Leach, and I just found it dull and uninspiring. The lack of colour, the earthy surfaces. Ceramics were vessel-formed, plinth-based, quite conventional....
...On behalf of the V&A, pioneering British industrial designer Christopher Dresser was sent to Japan in 1876, acquiring busily, while Japan was bringing in western designers to improve its manufacturing....
...“His Thin White Duke seemed conventionally masculine,” says Glenn Adamson, co-curator of the V&A’s current Postmodernism exhibition, “but it referred to the cabaret styling of Weimar Berlin.”...
...There are ceramics in the walls and floors in the V&A. Why not in a dome too? The porcelain vessels are held on a red shelf....
...“These survey results chime with the Institute of Directors’ view that the economic recovery would look more L than V shaped over the course of 2011,” said Graeme Leach, IoD chief economist....
...This must not be repeated in the proposed legislation to reverse Jones v Garnett, also known as Arctic Systems....
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