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Sir Michael Hopkins obituary
One of Britain’s leading architects admired for the Mound stand at Lord’s, Westminster tube station and the 2012 Olympic velodrome

Fiona MacCarthy

19, Jun, 2023 @4:34 PM

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Rebel with a cause: how the founder of Bauhaus changed the world
From Richard Rogers to Habitat and Ikea, the influence of the Bauhaus school is everywhere. So why is its charismatic founder, Walter Gropius, still so widely misunderstood?

Fiona MacCarthy

01, Mar, 2019 @2:00 PM

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Peacock and Vine by AS Byatt review – Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, masters of design
Byatt teases out the similarities and contrasts between two multifaceted makers, who each gave their name to famous brands, in this late-life meditation on the values of art

Fiona MacCarthy

01, Jul, 2016 @8:00 AM

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Soldier, poet, painter: how David Jones became Britain’s visionary outsider
Whether in his vivid war epics or painting the valleys in Wales, David Jones observed the world intensely. Fiona MacCarthy salutes a modernist maker on the brink of a major revival

Fiona MacCarthy

10, Oct, 2015 @7:59 AM

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Richard Hamilton: they called him Daddy pop
Phallic lollipops, pop-up toasters and hotel lobbies – Richard Hamilton was inspired by the vulgar and everyday. Fiona MacCarthy on the playful, influential artist who broke all the rules

Fiona MacCarthy

07, Feb, 2014 @3:00 PM

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Ronald Carter obituary
Leading English furniture designer whose work combined Scandinavian style with an Arts and Crafts influence

Fiona MacCarthy

30, May, 2013 @2:09 PM

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Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn – review
It's not just the curve of a covetable sofa – design affects all humanity, for better or worse. Fiona MacCarthy on a book that looks beyond art to link aesthetics with industry and conscience

Fiona MacCarthy

10, May, 2013 @1:00 PM

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The Glass Room restored

Mies van der Rohe's Villa Tugendhat in Brno, one of the great buildings of European modernism, was the original Landauer House in Simon Mawer's novel. By Fiona MacCarthy

Fiona MacCarthy

02, Nov, 2012 @10:55 PM

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Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review
Fiona MacCarthy on the making of a countercultural hero

Fiona MacCarthy

04, Oct, 2012 @7:00 AM

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Why the pre-Raphaelites were the YBAs of their day

Their art was as shocking and controversial as anything by Hirst. The new Tate show emphasises the politics behind the work, and takes seriously the movement's pioneering women artists, writes Fiona MacCarthy

Fiona MacCarthy

31, Aug, 2012 @7:00 AM

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Bauhaus at the Barbican: art as life

At a time when idealism in design and architecture is in short supply, the Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican is a timely reminder of this bold experiment, argues Fiona MacCarthy

Fiona MacCarthy

27, Apr, 2012 @9:54 PM

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The best of British design

From the Mini to the iMac, the V&A celebrates six decades of innovation. Fiona MacCarthy, the Guardian's design writer when the country discovered its sense of style, reflects on a long tradition of iconoclasm and inventiveness

Fiona MacCarthy

23, Mar, 2012 @10:44 PM

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