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...The exhibition Secret Ceramics will offer the public the chance to buy 100 single-stem vessels, £300 each, in support of a new ceramic studio in White City, west London, that will be open to young people...
...Stanley was subsequently able to identify 37 of the V&A’s tiles as having originated from the Çinili Hamam....
...Vasconcelos, in a big pink jumper festooned with a pink butterfly brooch, nicely complements Lord R, smart in a pale blue shirt and aquamarine V-neck, when they convene in Waddesdon’s Dairy....
...While we might expect large-format photos in an architecture exhibition, here we find not architectural photography but architecture as a subject for a photographer....
...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....
...Then look at the V&A or the Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial, to either side of the Serpentine Gallery, with their rich terracotta detail, or at the massive holdings of ceramics in the museum, and it...
...“There’s something very architectural about Jeanneret,” he says. “Every piece is handmade – it’s no-nonsense and graphic.”...
...But it was the enamelware of the rule-breaking jazz age that really popped, using boldly architectural lines on jewellery and objets....
...Across town, commuters passing Finsbury Avenue Square in Broadgate can pause on architectural designer Paul Cocksedge’s “Please Be Seated”, an undulating circular sculpture fashioned from old scaffolding...
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
...The installation resides in the grounds of the V-A-C Foundation, a contemporary art space on the Zattere waterfront owned by Russian energy tycoon Leonid Mikhelson....
...Levete’s design for the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter is a courtyard, a space rather than an object....
...Meanwhile New Zealand company Resident is showing “V”, a cantilevered brass wall fitting that directs a soft, halo-like light towards the wall....
...the V&A’s courtyard....
...Based in Oaxaca, Colectivo 1050° is a group of designers and artisans that produces modern ceramics....
...The pewter pots, pans, plates and tankards still hang on the walls alongside the nutmeg grater and a beautifully crafted ceramic corner stove....
...“The limited edition of large plates reinvigorates the concept of using ceramic as an interior design art form,” gushes its promotional literature....
...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....
...It won’t be long before we’re using ceramics and glass.” In the meantime, various creatives are making the most of the technology....
...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....
...Certain architectural details were probably inspired by buildings della Francesca encountered in Rome....
...identities for the Design Museum in London, retailer Habitat and the Frieze art fair, designing monographs for Ron Arad and Tord Boontje and producing exhibition installation graphics and catalogues for the V&...
...Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, January 25-29, V&A, London, tel: +44 (0)20-7942 2000; www.vam.ac.uk...
...Stairs covered in traditional green ceramic tiles lead to two floors of colonnaded galleries overlooking the courtyard....
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