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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...
...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....
...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....
...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....
...John Hackney slaps a clay disc on a mould, secures it with a beefy palm then spins his table towards the jaws of a pressing machine....
...My personal style signifiers are quite simple – I always wear a blue John Smedley V-neck jumper and Levi’s 501 jeans, and I’ve been doing that for the past 30 years....
...“My mother taught me to read . . . at a very young age so that I would leave her alone to continue her own reading,” she says, citing the King James Bible, John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Concise Oxford...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Cat Rutter PooleyThe trade off isn’t necessarily growth v fairness. Everyone agrees that we need to get Britain growing. The problem is that you need the broadest ability to be able to do it....
...In response to criticisms of Martin Wolf’s article on Milton Friedman’s view of the purpose of a corporation (“Friedman was wrong on the corporation,” Opinion, December 9), Professors Paul Collier and John...
...Dr Seuss Toy Story 4 Hood Timmy Harry Potter Picture Quiz The word was Jerusalem Idris Elba Judy Murray Edward Elgar Kylie Jenner Sam Smith Kirstie Alley John Updike Adele Roberts Rebecca Long Bailey...
...JOHN BURN-MURDOCH: Labour voters from 2017 who voted leave were actually completely split on prorogation....
...Ultimately, I too believe that massive monetary and fiscal stimulus will begin to drive CPIs higher, but as Milton Friedman said, monetary policy works with long and variable lags....
...Milton Friedman has had a tough year. The Chicago economist died in 2006, but his legacy lived on in corporate boardrooms....
...V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...Thankfully, “the V&A this year is having a bumper year. It’s 16 per cent up year on year, which is a lot of visitors to be up”....
...do with less than half the staff. ———- John Lewis warehouse ● Location Magna Park, near Milton Keynes ● Size 2.4m sq ft ● Workers 1,900 (at peak) ● Percentage of whom are employed directly 70% —...
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
...The British Museum holds 2m artefacts there, including fragile finds from entire excavations, while the V&A houses the Beatrix Potter archive as well as collections of art, design and performance....
...The robes are not Harry Potter-style black sacks. They are Tudor-era belted blue coats with knee breaches or skirts....
...One of the group read “Canto V”, the tale of Paolo and Francesca, who whirl eternally in each other’s arms through swirling gusts....
...Rowling, Harry Potter author • Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones • Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary • Oprah Winfrey, talk-show host • Sir Winston Churchill, politician • John Lennon, The Beatles • Sir...
...He published his first novel in his early twenties and went on to satirise the excesses of Thatcher’s Britain in his best-known works, Money – with its debauched anti-hero John Self – and London Fields....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...For 18 months, I have been writing a novel called The Potter’s Hand, about Josiah Wedgwood and the 18th century....
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