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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....
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...“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...
...Just in case they don’t share my extensive knowledge of all the Harry Potter spells, I explain: Veritaserum is a powerful truth serum most often used in interrogation....
...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....
...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....
...According to V-Dem, a Swedish research institute, almost three quarters of the world’s population now live in autocracies against less than half a decade ago....
...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....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...In an attempt to win over William, Harry turned to Google, calling up images of their bearded ancestors Edward VII and George V in uniform. Why do beards get some people so hot under the collar?...
...‘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....
...“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....
...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....
...Health officials say they have only reported 11,812 adverse reactions from the BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Sputnik V jabs....
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