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...Chanel started designing jewellery in about 1924 and it became an important part of the “Chanel look”, says Connie Karol Burks, project curator at the V&A....
...She also makes a delectable appetiser board that comes with grilled vegetables, pâté, tapenades and toasted fresh bread, which is one of the staples of her menu....
...“Transforming the idea into the product was challenging,” says Iittala’s design director Harri Koskinen. “Glass is a material that does not like sharp edges. The hot glass likes curves....
...And most people watch at home, without delirium, especially if the fixture is, say, New Zealand v Slovakia....
...Koskinen Works label....
...www.vesselgallery.com 4 Kohta Harri Koskinen One of a new series of numbered art-glass pieces from Iittala by Finnish designer Harri Koskinen called Art Works, Kohta is made of two different- coloured...
...The solid oak shelves in this modular shelving system by Helsinki-based industrial designer Koskinen seem to float in thin air....
...www.ragoarts.com v Six-tile panel William de Morgan William De Morgan (1839-1917) was the most innovative and influential ceramicist of the 19th-century arts and crafts movement....
...with Dalí and César in the past as well as sculptors Calude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, is meanwhile attempting to capitalise on heightened interest in “design art”, with a set of new three-dimensional pâte...
...Better, they think, turned into rich dark pâté or a perfect goulash, served with gingery pumpkin....
...Originals are in the collections at the V&A museum and the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths but a re-edition – of nine pieces made to order and hallmarked with the buyers’ initials – is about to be launched...
...These became the mainstay of a delicious meal that began with a velouté of pumpkin and ended with individual apple tarts, crisp circles of pâte brisée topped with buttery slices of caramelised fruit....
...A £400 Christmas hamper has been created to celebrate V&C's 70th anniversary this year....
...There is spicy Obatzter cheese spread and bretzels, meatballs, pates, salmon, herrings and apple strudel with sweet Bavarian cream....
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