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...The conceptual artist Simon Starling is best known for his Turner Prize-winning Shedboatshed, 2005, for which he transformed a wooden shed into a boat and sailed it down the Rhine, before returning it back...
...Michael Anastassiades’ black oak Card bookcase is another head-turner: its delicate profiles are intersected with satin brass joints – a masterclass in simplicity....
...Much as I love an antique mahogany number, I also enjoy a more tailored, 1960s-style approach....
...(The American Rothko gave works to Tate because he admired its Turner connection.)...
...She met Anish Kapoor in 1991, the same year he had won the Turner Prize....
...Jamaica KincaidUh, Mahogany The Costs of Luxury in Early America. That’s what I’m reading. Lilah RaptopoulosOK. And could you tell us a little bit about what you love about it?...
...Funnily enough, “The Best” by Tina Turner, the song that came to play a pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of the series, was one of the biggest floor-fillers at Dance Party....
...These riverscapes are from a set of the only oils that Turner made en plein air, and painted on mahogany repurposed from old furniture as opposed to his more usual canvas....
...Pilita Clark FT columnist Siri Hustvedt’s highbrow page-turner, What I Loved, might not seem the most obvious reading choice....
...Sculpted cherubs chat on the telephone, carvings of The Three Musketeers adorn the grand mahogany staircase, faux medieval stained glass windows glint on polychrome marble floors recalling Venetian palazzi...
...But there are engaging anecdotal pieces here too: for example, “The New Moon, or I’ve Lost My Boat, You Shan’t Have Your Hoop”, a glowing oil-on-mahogany depiction of disputing children and dogs on Margate...
...Below deck it’s the same immaculately carpentered story, except here the walls are panelled in mahogany and the floors boarded in teak, inlaid with bands of pale holly....
...Art deco elements – mahogany doors, marble fireplaces and stained-glass windows – have been restored by craftsmen under the watchful eye of a consultant historian....
...With all these thoughts flying round my head, I headed to the Turner Prize at Tate Britain – where, incidentally, three out of the four finalists were women....
...Teddy Turner, the eldest son of Ted Turner’s, is an investment partner in the 70ft 1928 yacht Onawa....
...disbelief in the London art world if Jay Jopling, the dealer/Svengali behind such out-and-out modernists as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, announced that his next show would feature the watercolours of Turner...
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