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...De Gournay One of the finest ages of Japanese painting (the Edo period, from around 1615 to 1868) inspires handpainted designs that transport to a land of arching willow trees on gilded grounds, morning...
...The California brothers Greene and Greene employed organic, Japanese-inflected designs as part of the American Arts and Crafts movement....
...There isn’t the huge divide that there is in Britain between homeowners and people who live on estates. “Social housing is not stigmatised in Vienna. People are proud of it,” he says....
...But care homeowners, which employ about 40 per cent of their staff on the minimum wage, warned they have no such protection and that the rise to £7.20 an hour from next April could force homes to close....
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