Word: lacquers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibition is comprised of jars, plates, vases and so forth on the pottery line. There will be scarfs, shawls, and samples of many types of weaving done by private concerns in England and Japan. Lacquer, metal, and textile work are also to be seen. It is understood that the articles are to be for sale...
This collection, which is beginning an American tour with the Harvard show, includes examples of lacquer work as done today by Japanese potters, and many pieces made in imitation of ancient methods of glazing. The Oriental work and the work of English weavers has been brought direct from Japan and England...
...were so designed by able Manhattanite Henry Killam Murphy as to harmonize with the country and the civilization of which they are a part. There are Forbes, Wheeler, Gamble, and Finley Dormitories, but despite their Anglo-Saxon names these buildings have the blue-tiled pagoda roofs, white walls, red lacquer columns, carved porches, sweeping curves and broken lines appropriate to their environment. A typical many-tiered, pagoda-topped tower overlooks an artificial lake, and a pair of gargoyle-like lions guard the multicolored, richly ornamented Alumni gate...
...front of this bar is painted to represent a wood railing, with the counter portions of mahogany. Shelves painted lacquer red backed by mirrored glass with a painted decoration in the centre contribute to the gaiety of this space...
...Alicia Patterson Simpson,* 22, who a while ago preferred reporting for her father's Manhattan tabloid (Daily News) to dancing with Chicago's eligibles. He also took Lieut. Frederick Becker as pilot, Engineer Sutter, Radioman Roe and Newsman Floyd Gibbons. In Liberty's red leather and lacquer cabin Publisher Patterson studied maps and winds while Daughter Alicia snuggled on a chaise-longue reading. . . . They stayed at Havana four days. A "norther" swept across the bay. nearly bumped a bulky launch against the Liberty. The crew watched a jai alai tournament and cock fights. Finally they took...