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Until the beginning of the 1990’s, Spira was a potter at Lower Froyle in Hampshire. Whilst working at the Swallow tile Co, Spira perfected the art of interlocking geometric tiles with various complex glazes. In 1992, he received a commission from d...
by Susannah Charlton, photographs Laurence Mackman Holborn Library is a milestone in the history of the modern public library, both as the first large, multi-functional, post-war library in London and for its pioneering architecture, with an elegant...
Ray Howard-Jones won a national competition held by the Western Mail in 1958 to embellish their new office building in Cardiff. Chiefly known as an impressionist neo-romantic landscape painter, she came up with a 10m high mosaic mural full of vibrant...
The Faraday Building’s architect was Harry Fairhurst, of the long-established Manchester firm of H. S. Fairhurst & Son. It was constructed in 1967 and houses the University’s chemistry department. There are two large mosaic murals, and two mu...
At 1000 square feet this is the largest secular work of the sculptor Adam Kossowski. The frieze, which depicts local historic scenes in high relief, was designed in 1964 and completed in 1965. Kossowski was Polish and is most noted for his works for ...
Henry Collins and his wife Joyce Pallot produced a series of historical murals using mainly concrete and mosaic. They never worked on the site itself, but used a regular contractor who cast the concrete in panels around four feet square. There are tw...
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