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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....
...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...“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...
...Mel Morris, who made a fortune on the Candy Crush game and ploughed it into his boyhood club, no longer owns the team, which is now fighting to escape the third tier of English football....
...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....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...The reference was – de Castellane is not ashamed to admit it – the Tudoresque Great Hall in Harry Potter, though she has upholstered all the seating in a blushing-pink jacquard....
...San José-based potter Will Moss “teaches at a community college and has about 240 Instagram followers, but he makes these incredible mugs which have a narrative to them”, says Ryan Noon, a former fashion...
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...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....
...William Morris called it the “noblest of the weaving arts”....
...King George V Park, the Scottish Gallery and Scottish National Portrait Gallery are a short walk away. What A second-floor flat with two to three bedrooms and about 1,060 sq ft of living space....
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...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....
...‘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...
...Speaking to banking editor Stephen Morris at the FT’s global banking summit last week, Anil also said that financial crime was an “industry challenge”....
...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....
...Grahame Morris, a Labour MP, told the House of Commons on Monday that families in his constituency had already lost holidays because the Passport Office had failed to meet its service standard times....
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