![]() ![]() She found her soldiers, some dating back 200 years, from searches in the UK and US.Menus Icon Bar Menu Icon Accordion Tabs Vertical Tabs Tab Headers Full Page Tabs Hover Tabs Top Navigation Responsive Topnav Split Navigation Navbar with Icons Search Menu Search Bar Fixed Sidebar Side Navigation Responsive Sidebar Fullscreen Navigation Off-Canvas Menu Hover Sidenav Buttons Sidebar with Icons Horizontal Scroll Menu Vertical Menu Bottom Navigation Responsive Bottom Nav Bottom Border Nav Links Right Aligned Menu Links Centered Menu Link Equal Width Menu Links Fixed Menu Slide Down Bar on Scroll Hide Navbar on Scroll Shrink Navbar on Scroll Sticky Navbar Navbar on Image Hover Dropdowns Click Dropdowns Cascading Dropdown Dropdown in Topnav Dropdown in Sidenav Resp Navbar Dropdown Subnavigation Menu Dropup Mega Menu Mobile Menu Curtain Menu Collapsed Sidebar Collapsed Sidepanel Pagination Breadcrumbs Button Group Vertical Button Group Sticky Social Bar Pill Navigation Responsive Header “I’m making them from lead toy soldiers,” says Parker, whose German mother was a nurse for the Luftwaffe in the second world war. Parker, a former Turner prize nominee, is producing what she calls “subversive” buttons. “My buttons – and I’m doing about 180 on 20 different cards – are made of very thin porcelain engraved with Lucie’s name and addresses of her home in Vienna and London. “I’ve a particular empathy with Lucie as she was an exile, and I’m from a refugee family,” says de Waal. But, as a stylish woman who loved fashion, she understood couture and did very well from buttons, even though she wanted to get back to pots.” Rie gave away many of her buttons in her latter years to the noted Japanese clothes designer Issey Miyake, who had become a good friend. “Lucie was a distant cousin of my maternal grandmother,” says De Waal, who met her a few times in London before her death in 1995. So she took up button-making, mainly for fashion houses, which the government allowed to boost morale for women who liked fancy clothes. The Board of Trade then withdrew her manufacturing licence, arguing that producing pots was not as important as war work. But after arriving in the UK, war was soon declared and, though designated “a friendly enemy agent”, she found it hard to get clay material. ![]() Like the other nine artists, he has seen an exhibition of her work of pottery and buttons, which has been touring the UK, from Middlesbrough last December before Cambridge and now Bath.Ī Jewish refugee, Rie fled Austria in 1938, where she had made a name for herself as a potter. Their buttons were especially conspicuous.”ĭe Waal, a noted ceramicist and author of the bestselling family memoir The Hare With Amber Eyes, has made buttons about Rie herself. I couldn’t look at their faces, yet I was in the presence of two individuals who embodied national power. ![]() “Two officers were always positioned about 80 centimetres from me, watching day and night. ![]() In 2011, Ai was imprisoned in China for 81 days for alleged tax evasion. They will depict the red star badge of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Photograph: Matilde Viegas/The ObserverĪi’s buttons for the autumn exhibition at Kettle’s Yard gallery in Cambridge have a deeply personal resonance. Ai Weiwei near his home in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal. ![]()
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