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...The latest is 21 Carpenter, which neatly merges the Lion City’s past and present....
...As a carpenter, he was used to focusing on both the big picture and the small steps needed to get there....
...Gordon Onslow Ford, the English surrealist; the Beirut-born painter Etel Adnan; Bruce Nauman; Jay DeFeo, who achieved renown in the seminal 1959 MoMA show Sixteen Americans....
...He teamed up with blacksmiths and carpenters to create the cranes, mobile platforms and scaffolding. Hundreds of workers — from bricklayers to coopers — joined him....
...The report “shows a control room in disarray”, said Maria Thomas, a solicitor representing several bereaved families....
...And it’s what Paul, a carpenter and life-long desert-dweller, had worked with for 30 years....
...Designers from across Europe answered the call: from Switzerland-based Ini Archibong and Poland’s Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska to the UK’s Heatherwick Studio and, from Denmark, Maria Bruun....
...Sign up here with one click The frame is made by Swedish carpenters who have worked with the company for nearly 40 years....
...To this end, Maria Bartuszova’s 1980s plaster works sit near to slashed canvases by Lucio Fontana, to whom Bartuszova pays homage....
...(It has since been produced as a limited edition by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.) Magrabi first commissioned store windows from the designer Rami Dalle, before inviting him to join House of Today....
...Loïc Le Gaillard, of the Paris-and-London-based Carpenters Workshop Gallery, relishes a platform for taking risks....
...Formerly populated by carpenters, the area is now a hip quarter, brimming with galleries, antique shops and restaurants....
...Here, amid the brightly coloured building blocks and finger paints, Maria Quiroga, the manager of Baytree House nursery, is shepherding a trio of three-year-olds into the bathroom to brush their teeth....
...“Black Maria”’s theatrical structure, with broad steps that function as terraced seating and a screen wall/proscenium arch, is being built (literally – some of them are carpenters) by young Swiss practice...
...In the showroom of the Winds and Waves Artisans’ Guild, where local craftspeople sell their work, I ask one carpenter from what kind of wood a potato peeler is carved....
...“Many things are custom-made by blacksmiths and carpenters....
...Smitten by Maria Callas’s Norma at Covent Garden, Britten wanted her to sing the opera’s main role, Elizabeth I, in Milan....
...“We bought our house because there is a certain beauty in the area, there was lots of space and there are excellent metal-workers, carpenters and paint shops....
...“My father was one of the pioneers,” says Ruben Duran, a 40-year-old carpenter who fashions Gil-related handicraft from wood – and charges visitors to use his bathroom....
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