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Kitsch Christmas cards, beautiful wintry homes and some cherished (if sometimes ugly) Christmas decorations: find them all in this year’s festive special edition.
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...She has made her name in recent seasons with a series of vivid vignettes centred on women....
...For centuries, fir trees have been adorned with decorations in celebration of the winter solstice, and balsam has been bottled for earthy-scented creams and oils....
...Until 24 December, lumieres-de-noel.fr The Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party, San Francisco The Great Dickens Christmas Fair was inaugurated in 1970 in San Francisco’s waterside Embarcadero...
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...The walls are hung with a series of late-Florentine-Baroque-style plaster panels that once decorated the altar at the nearby Duomo....
...Nielson’s plan is for this show to kick-start a series of exhibitions at Blunk Space, inviting 100 responses to different objects....
...Bourdet, however, is showing the designer’s last work: nine chairs from a series called 100 sedie in una notte made in 1990....
...KF To November 13, centrepompidou.fr...
...“The apartment was a series of white boxes before. But introducing different ceiling finishes transformed its atmosphere and the way it connects with the location,” says Chudley....
...Those looking for more traditional decorations, meanwhile, can opt for pine cones or a set of 1930s-style silver baubles....
...Product and industrial design would be at the centre of Britain’s economic recovery, not mere decoration and not an afterthought....
...But Fr Giles says the abbey attracts people for retreats “from all varieties of religious traditions and none”....
...The use of books as decoration has a long and chequered history....
...Shape and silhouette, not decoration.” “Shoes are a big thing I have rules around. Tall, elegant, no platforms. No square toes. Tights need to be sheer or knit, if opaque.”...
...From the more literal folds in the Earth’s surface captured in Lunar Landscape (2022) to a series of portraits examining “what it means to depict a person”, Tillmans, as always, encourages us to observe...
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...Designed by architect Bernardo Buontalenti between 1582 and 1593, a series of three atmospheric rooms is lined in rocks, sponges and shells — not real but carved by sculptor Pietro Mati with Michelangelo...
...The quality is in the detail rather than the decoration....
...She’s drawn with great affection: a hallmark of this unconventional memoir, which assembles a series of vivid pen portraits of people who have influenced him....
...love how willing these firms are when we approach them with slightly mad ideas,” says Wood, highlighting another collaboration between two local artists and manufacturer Johnson Tiles: an exclusive BCB series...
...He has made tortoise-shell panels for a bar created by Barlow & Barlow and collaborated with Sarah Vanrenen on a series of tortoise-shell and malachite lamps and shades in different colourways....
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