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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....
...“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...
...Liane Wiggins, head of womenswear, says Studio Nicholson’s success is in its multipurpose staples. “Once customers start converting to the brand, they want to build a wider wardrobe from it.”...
...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....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...“When I first started making art I would lead with being a potter more than a conceptual artist. I wore it as a badge of honour. This is a continuation of that making of vessels....
...The trio of exhibitions stretching from the V&A to the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube also reveals a fearsome curator....
...With a trouser co-ord such as The Row’s or Jigsaw’s caramel ribbed knit V-neck sweater and matching flared trousers (£120, jigsaw-online.com), a pair of white trainers or classic loafers will work....
...V Ashok, the chief financial officer of GFG Alliance, a loose collection of Gupta-family owned businesses, emailed Kaushik De, finance director at Tata Steel Europe, twice in August 2020 offering smaller...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Yet Merckx comes out in his jeans and V-neck jumper to wave us off. There is a genuine smile on his face as we roll into a downpour....
...Writing in her blog in June 2016, potter Harriet Coles echoed the sentiments of the 48 per cent of UK voters who wanted to remain in the EU....
...Job moves Investment fund Gresham House Strategic launched a strategic review after chair David Potter said he plans to retire in September....
...Specialists including Rollo Whately and Arnold Wiggins & Sons in London’s St James’s, as well as a number of Parisian dealers such as Maison Samson, are the go-to places for gilt antique frames – a growing...
...Carlyle had experienced an “economic rebound in China [that] has been very V-shaped”, he told a Morgan Stanley investor conference last month, although progress in the US and Europe would come in fits and...
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