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Back to the future: Canada and empires
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ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, the Anglo-American scholar Paul Kennedy published a book on the fate of empires, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.(1) Kennedy's special field was the British Empire and, not surprisingly, the British imperial experience, rising and falling, occupied a central position in his analysis. Non-professional readers might have been surprised at how long the rise had taken, and how rapid and how recent the fall had been.
There were many readers, and the book was a surprise best-seller in the early 1990s, not so much because it dealt with the British Empire, but because ...
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Equipment for utopia. (furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld, Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (1888-1964) is known best as the...Architecture Institute) reveals that Rietveld was in fact a designer and an architect...female client, Truus Schroder, was Rietveld's first building;(3) many other...
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The Directors of Thomas Dane Gallery are pleased to present the first London exhibition of Italian photographer Luisa Lambri.
M2 Presswire
; ...15 November 2007-Thomas Dane Gallery: The Directors of Thomas Dane Gallery are...SANAA) and the Rietveld Schroeder House, Utrecht, 1924-25 (Gerrit Rietveld). Lambri's almost...Press enquiries, Thomas Dane GalleryTel...
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Thomas Schutte at Marian Goodman.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...bones living? This seems to be the question raised by Thomas Schutte's exhibition of "One Man Houses." With...simplified, geometric designs of Wright, Josef Hoffmann and Gerrit Rietveld. However, the dark wood out of which they are made...
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Dutch drift - a century of design
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal
; ...Design: a History by Mienke Simon Thomas. Reaktion Books, 2008, 1 7...the Netherlands. Yet Berlage, Gerrit Rietveld and Mart Stam were at the first...Jacobus Oud was too busy to attend. Rietveld, whose work had first been published...
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Navy veteran played key role in arts world
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...furniture, including a Zig- Zag chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld. Harry Schwalb, an artist and art critic from Oakland...will be in Arlington Cemetery. Arrangements are by Thomas M. Smith Funeral Home and Crematorium in Blawnox.
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Home at Guys; Property news.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ...Mondrian-like Schroder-Schrader House in Utrecht by Gerrit Rietveld; the famous Maison de Verre in Paris designed in 1932...Mann, director of arts and heritage at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust, explains: "This is a fascinating...
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Home at Guys Property news
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...Mondrian-like Schroder-Schrader House in Utrecht by Gerrit Rietveld; the famous Maison de Verre in Paris designed in 1932...Mann, director of arts and heritage at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust, explains: "This is a fascinating...
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OUT & ABOUT
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...they weren't the only draw. Miniature furniture designed by modernist Gerrit Rietveld filled glass cases next to landscapes by 17th-century Dutch painters...lady earlier in the week. Much better than a wooden shoe. With Laura Thomas
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DESIGN The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 20, 218 pp Since every single thing we use has been designed, what is a 'designer object'? wonders Martin Gayford
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...designer back at least to the 18th-century furniture of Thomas Chippendale. The novelty was in the clear division...sitting. Sudjic is a great fan, quite rightly, of Gerrit Rietveld's Red Blue Chair of 1918. This is, roughly speaking...
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 "New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)")
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Deep-seated affection.
Newspaper article from: New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
; ...wound still evident. 3 Zigzag chair designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld. Made with a continuous sheet of wood and presents...executions I think. 4 The Red and Blue chair by Gerrit Thomas Reitveld. A true object of furniture sculpture...
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