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...It was an unpromising site but he was fortunate in his collaborators, a local landscape gardener and a stone carver....
...After the rescue of the house and its contents by then HRH The Prince of Wales, London’s Carvers & Gilders were commissioned to restore “the best bed of Dumfries House” to Thomas Chippendale’s original 18th-century...
...He was enticed, too, by the incredibly ornate wooden chimneypiece and cornicing, which recalls the delicately drawn Chippendale-style of master carver Thomas Johnson, stripped back by the property’s owner...
...Back down in Dresden, I meet marketing manager Thomas Rost, who tells me it was founded in 1915 and remains family-owned....
...He credited Pat, a London-trained artist and stone carver, with preventing him from giving up the business in the early years. In the 1950s rose breeders were all following a very different approach....
...Elfreth’s Alley, a 1702 cart lane to the Delaware River, is a good example, gradually filled with an agreeable huddle of brick townhouses built for sailors, carvers and boatbuilders....
...Elsewhere the spirals and figures of the latticework of an early canoe sternpost point to the mastery of the Maori carvers....
...Matthew Slotover (Frieze), Marc Spiegler (Basel) and Antonia Carver (Art Dubai) as well as Simon and Michaela de Pury....
...Dearden’s inheritance must have been the “Thomas Stanley Bed” of c1500, rediscovered 40 years ago, and relatable to Lathom by Thomas Stanley’s heraldry....
...Richard Holt of Lambeth had filed a patent in 1722, in conjunction with Thomas Ripley, for a “compound liquid metal, by which artificial stone and marble is made, by casting the same into moulds.”...
...We use an 80-year-old carver who is remarkable, and I realised about five years ago that he has never trained an apprentice and that it’s probably too late now....
...In one sketch, Packer observes that Raymond Carver “seemed to know, in the unintentional way of a fiction writer, that the country’s future would be most unnerving in its ordinariness”....
...Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby, was the king’s stepfather....
...The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s famous collection of stories What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, features two couples arguing over the Holocaust....
...Gordon Carver Della:I am not aware of any studies, though I am sure my two panel colleagues will be better informed. The question for me is what these online programmes replace....
...But I love Chekhov, RL Stevenson, Raymond Carver, Dylan Thomas, Shakespeare and Melville. How would you earn your living if you had to give up writing? By selling my organs....
...Among the leading male protagonists is Paris-based Thomas Boog, whose clients worldwide have “huge houses and appreciate having items handcrafted especially for them”....
...Thomas Mann, whose books Masereel illustrated, likened his prototype graphic novels to silent film....
...Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice became Visconti’s long-breathed art-and-death ballad. Raymond Carver’s short stories inspired Robert Altman’s magisterial Short Cuts....
...“We have had no contact from the Swiss or Swedish authorities,” says Thomas Schmidt, spokesman for the Swiss-Swedish electrical engineering group. “We are still conducting internal inquiries.”...
...The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization By Thomas Homer-Dixon Souvenir £15, 448 pages FT bookshop price: £12 The Canadian political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon takes...
..."We didn't buy any spoons," said Bubba Carver, co-owner of Zucca. "Spoons aren't weapons, I don't think."...
...Thomas F....
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