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2 unusual facts about Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875


Frederic Edward Manby

These included improvements in sanitation, implementation of the Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875 and the building of the Borough Isolation Hospital in 1884.

Model dwellings company

The middle of the century saw the peak in MDC building, with around twenty-eight separate companies operating in London prior to the 1875 Cross Act.


Abbotsford Convent

Today the site and its buildings are used as an arts, educational and cultural hub, the grounds, historic buildings and gardens are occupied by and host artisans; community and cultural events and cultural institutions, a community classical music radio station (3MBS), a Steiner School (Sophia Mundi), live music performances, a gallery, theater, markets, bakery, bar, cafe and an organic pay-as-you-feel restaurant.

Artisans Angkor

Artisans Angkor also reproduced and installed three sandstone lions on the Terrace of the Elephants located in the heart of Angkor Thom.

Cafehorn

Created on July 2006 with the support of the Italian artisans G&P and patented by Nicola Gomirato it is a strange and unique instrument made of six caffettiera and a brass pipe.

Castillo de la Emperatriz Eugenia de Montijo

Many of the works were made by French entrepreneurs and artisans, such as Bernard, the painter and decorator from Bagnères-de-Luchon.

Ceramics of Jalisco

To help Jalisco potters stay competitive, the Museo Regional de la Cerámica has added a design center to help train local artisans in new designs and techniques.

Chimú culture

A common object for offerings, as well as one used by artisans, was the shell of the Spondylus shellfish, which live only in the warm coastal waters off present-day Ecuador.

Cristina Pacheco

With the show Conversando, con Cristina Pacheco, she profiles people in the arts and popular culture such as writers, musicians, artists, artisans, sports figures, which have included Portuguese writer José Saramago, Catalan lyricist Joan Manuel Serrat, painters Juan Soriano and Perro Aguayo .

Culture of Bankura district

Some of the earlier temples built by the Bardhaman Raj have terracotta carvings, possibly by artisans from Bankura district, but by the time Rani Rashmoni decided to construct the Dakshineswar Kali Temple, in the mid nineteenth century, the art of terracotta carvings had obviously faded out.

Edward D. Muhlenberg

In September, 1857, he sailed for Brazil in company with several other civil engineers and artisans to assist in the construction of the Dom Pedro Segundo Railroad, which ran westward from Rio de Janeiro.

Ergane

the goddess Athena was called Athena Ergane as the patron of craftsmen and artisans.

Four continents

In 1603, Cesare Ripa published a book of emblems for the use of artists and artisans who might be called upon to depict allegorical figures.

Galceran de Requesens y Santa Coloma

He opposed the oligarchs with a pressure group of merchants and artisans known as La Busca.

German Eastern Marches Society

Other notable group of supporters included the local artisans and businessmen, whose interests were endangered by the organic work, that is the Polish response to the economical competition promoted by the Settlement Commission and other similar organizations.

Guild of Jewellery Professionals and Artisans

The Guild of Jewellery Professionals and Artisans (Abbreviation: GJPA) is a not-for-profit society based in Singapore whose aim is to provide the jewellery and accessories industries in the region with much-needed support at the “Designer Jewellery” level by ensuring high standards in education, materials, workmanship and service as well as a strong community of experts and aficionados to direct the future of these industry segments.

History of printing in East Asia

The history of printing in East Asia starts with the use of woodblock printing on cloth during the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) and later paper (in Imperial Court as early as the 1st century, or around 80 AD), and continued with the invention of wooden movable type by East Asian artisans in Song China by the 11th century.

Indego Africa

In September 2010 iconic fashion designer Nicole Miller, partnered with Indego Africa to start an entire "line of fair-trade textile bangles and woven bracelets" produced by the Indego artisans from Rwanda.

Jean-Baptiste Biot

To publish it in correct form, Jean-Baptiste Biot wrote, he had to consult Stanislas Julien, the famous Sinologist, but also, especially for the translation of the most difficult part, the Kaogongji, he himself had to visit many workshops and questioned artisans and craftsmen about their methods and vocabulary in order to verify his son's work.

Jean-Jacques Bachelier

Admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1752, he founded an art school using his own means in Paris in 1765 for the artisans in the historic collège d'Autun (rue de l'école de médecine), which survived until the 19th century.

John Derian

John Derian’s shop in the Lower East Side features artisans and collaborators such as Leanne Shapton, Benoît Astier de Villatte and Ivan Pericoli (owners of Astier de Villatte), Hugo Guinness, Natalie Lété, Livia Cetti and Stephanie Housley (founder of Coral & Tusk).

José Vega Santana

It is there that he, together with some other students decided to form an "Artisans Market" at the Luis Muñoz Rivera Park.

Kunów

In 1578 Kunów had 65 different artisans, and was famous for its white and red marble, used in construction of several palaces (such as the complex of Łazienki Park in Warsaw).

Lao art

Lao artisans have, throughout the past, used a variety of media in their sculptural creations.

Livingstone Memorial

The memorial was constructed in 1902 by Owen Stroud and some African artisans who travelled from Fort Jameson (now Chipata) to do the job.

Messene

In 85 days the combined armies and exiles guided by the engineers and artisans had complete the walled city of Messene over the site of the previous Ithome.

Mining in Namibia

The artisans for the industry are educated in the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) in Arandis, Keetmanshoop, and Tsumeb.

Monkey god

Howler Monkey Gods, a patron of the artisans among the Classic Mayas

Mykhailo Kravchenko

The Russian Geographical Society invited Kravchenko to Saint Petersburg to take part in an artisans exhibition in 1902.

Niello

John Tsetses, a 12th-century Byzantine writer, praised the work of Kievan Rus artisans and likened their work to the creations of Daedalus, the highly skilled craftsman of Greek Mythology.

Olive wood carving in Palestine

The art developed and became a major industry in Bethlehem and nearby towns like Beit Sahour and Beit Jala in the 16th and 17th centuries when Italian and Franciscan artisans on pilgrimage to the area — by now under the rule of the Ottomans — taught the residents how to carve.

Opinga

The artisans of the kaza of Përmet held the monopoly in the trade of opinga in the vilayets of Shkodër and Janina until 1841, when that privilege was revoked under the Tanzimat reforms.

Peter Stretch

The first settlers of Philadelphia were mainly artisans, many of them belonging to the English gentry, who sold their property and came to America to escape religious persecution.

Ramon Reis

Jean-Christophe Maillot entrusts him roles in his creations: Dov'è la Luna, Vers un Pays Sage, Opus 40, Miniatures, D'Une Rive à l'Autre, Men's Dance, Noces, Eye for an Eye (wolf), Cinderella (the four friends), Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio), La Belle (the father of Prince), le Songe (les artisans), Altro Canto.

Saint-Henri, Montreal

The area, historically known as Les Tanneries because of the artisans shops where leather tanning took place, was named for St. Henry via the Église Saint-Henri, which at one time formed Place Saint-Henri along with the community's fire and police station.

Simone Cipriani

The Ethical Fashion Initiative harnesses the power of fashion as a vehicle out of poverty by connecting top designers, including Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney, to marginalized artisans in East Africa, West Africa and Haiti.

Summer's Best

Julie Zwillich travels around vacation country in Ontario visiting local artisans and preparing seasonal recipes at high-end vacation homes.

Tonalá, Jalisco

It was founded in 1986, by a group of businessmen along with artisans Jorge Wilmot and Ken Edwards in Wilmot’s former home.

United States Capitol Historical Society

Ten architects and countless artisans contributed, including a Roman fresco painter named Constantino Brumidi.

Watson Island

The Ichimura Miami - Japanese Garden grew out of the efforts of Kiyoshi Ichimura, who sent objects, materials and artisans from Tokyo to Miami in the 1950s to construct the San-Ai-An Japanese Garden on Watson Island.


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