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...applied in volume or in smaller numbers to add a decorative flourish. "I'm fascinated by functionalism, but we approach each piece as an artwork," says Rege. "Some people even frame and hang them." Rege's life on the tiles began after Turner, a fellow graduate in ceramics from Edinburgh College of Art, started looking for tiles for her own kitchen. "Everything I saw was characterless - no wit or humor," says Turner. Inspired to set up their Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter...
...Facts: It’s no Rhodes, but on the up side, it’s more flexible and even more elitist. Keasbey draws from a few top American institutions, offering to fund study at Cambridge, Oxford, Wales, or Edinburgh. According to the Keasbey website, “the Scholarship may not be held by a married scholar. A nominee should not have expectations of marrying before completing two years of study abroad. If the scholar marries, the scholarship is forfeited...
...maybe even worth its reported $2.5 million advance. Born in a northern Indian village, Shanti Seth went to Berlin in 1931 to study dentistry. There he stayed in the apartment of a Jewish widow whose daughter, Henny Caro, became one of Shanti's closest friends. Shanti moved to Edinburgh to continue his studies in 1937, as anti-Jewish laws were making life difficult for the Caros in Berlin. Henny escaped to London two years later, but her mother and sister died in concentration camps in 1943. Shanti, meanwhile, joined the British army as a dentist and lost...
...lecture series featuring leading Degas experts, including Richard Thomsen of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Hollis Clayson of Northwestern, and an undergraduate seminar led by Wolohojian, will accompany the exhibit...
...Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was released promptly at midnight on Friday. At 39, Rowling is a tall handsome woman with a long face, a slightly crooked nose and interestingly hooded eyes. Sitting at a conference table in a bungalow adjoining her stately Edinburgh home (neither her only nor her stateliest home), she talks rapidly, even a little nervously. She uses the word obviously way more often than the average person does, and she likes to say outrageous things, then break out into fits of throaty alto laughter to show you she's just...