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...“People have the perception that Mingei is just brown pots,” says Roisin Inglesby, a curator at the William Morris Gallery in London....
...Cary Welch snapped many up, and, like Falk, helped promote their popularity in Europe and America via scholarly exhibitions at the V&A or the Met – which partly explains why the first two parts of the Cary...
...overcoats were a staple style influence in my teenage years, thanks to characters such as Neo and Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy, Denzel Washington in American Gangster and Michael Caine in the original Get Carter...
...Simon Carter, boss of British Land, suggested this week that the cycle had reached an inflection point....
...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....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...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....
...He points to The County of London Plan, written in 1945 by Edward Julian Carter and Ernő Goldfinger (of Trellick Tower fame), as a clear forerunner, with its outlines for various postwar rebuilding schemes...
...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....
...Brzezinski, whose late father was Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, is another of Biden’s Polish ties....
...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”....
...Vaughan Williams seems to have felt ill at ease among the hop-pickers and farm labourers of East Anglia, but in a rough part of King’s Lynn he met and was transfixed by an old fisherman, James “Duggie” Carter...
...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....
...“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few or freedom for a few,” wrote Morris (the slogan appears on a V&A tote bag, £10) yet he ended up “ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich...
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...(FT) — The making of ‘bad gentry’ after the abolition of the civil service exam in China, 1902-1911 (The Journal of Economic History, v Phenomenal World) — Zach Carter with a post on the real student debt...
...Carter set about a meticulous restoration of a 19th-century store – which had been first a butcher’s, then a tailor’s and later an antiques shop....
...As ever, reach out to us with your thoughts (imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com). Thanks, and happy reading....
...I’d also been to the V&A and seen one of his famous japonisme sideboards: the earliest versions may date from the late 1850s but it is a spectacularly modernist piece of geometric design....
...Jimmy Carter, one example of that; George HW Bush — maybe not divisive, but not successful. It was seen in that in terms of domestic politics....
...“Curves and folds being visible seem far more acceptable these days,” says fashion stylist Kate Rose Morris. She says the majority of her clients want to “smooth” rather than “shrink”....
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Thanks for reading....
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