All Review articles – Page 110
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ReviewInspiration: Whisky fuelled
I rediscovered the work of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui through Gus Casely-Hayford, the curator of the Africa Galleries at the British Museum.
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ReviewIn love with a German film star
Catherine Croft struggles to find the thread in a book on Kracauer
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ReviewInspiriation: Light entertainment
Offices are dull places. Rarely are they ascribed the meaning given to a house or a public building. Inside and out they disappoint for lack of character, exacerbated by remoteness from the exterior and the weather.
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On the bookshelf
1,000 Lights 1879-1959, edited by Charlotte & Peter Fiell. Taschen, £19.99.A sumptuous feast of lights, both lush and informative, arranged by designer for each of eight decades. Pictured right: carved wood and chandelier with opalescent shades, designed by Maurice Dufrene for Paul Watel, circa 1913The Complete Kagan: a Lifetime of ...
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ReviewBending over backwards
Kas Oosterhuis wants to use future technologies to create truly flexible buildings
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ReviewWomb with a view
Richard Neutra’s architecture followed psychoanalytic principles, argues a new book reviewed by Neil Jackson
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ReviewInspiration: The hole story
We now know that black holes are at the centre of all galaxies and it’s now believed that galaxies are held together by black holes, so they are really important. The black hole is not the destroyer as used to be thought, but the creator.
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ReviewWebb master
Sheila Kirk has spent 25 years researching the life and work of Philip Webb, regarded as a key figure in the arts & crafts movement and also a trailblazer of modernism.
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ReviewInspiration: Man with a plan
With my family roots in the Isle of Man, it wasn’t difficult to fall in love with the early work of Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott found there.
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ReviewCottage industry
As the V&A prepares to open its arts & crafts show next week, Richard Holder discovers a British movement that took on the world
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ReviewInspiration - Petal power
I worked at Michael Hopkins for two days a week as a student. A project to design a set for the Royal Opera House came into the office.
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ReviewInspiration - Good from the trees
Around Berlin, the sandy earth supports copious birch and pine forests.
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ReviewBathtime reflections
The relentless pace of Japanese life has inspired the work of Klein Dytham.
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ReviewInspiration: Western lights
My own experience of unusual weather phenomenon is one of the inspirations for our Daycaster sculpture in Exeter.
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