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Pugin

Augustus (Welby Northmore). 1812--52, British architect; a leader of the Gothic Revival. He collaborated with Sir Charles Barry on the Palace of Westminster (begun 1836)
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In 2009, Pugin the dragon was picked up by Steve Fletcher the founder and artistic director of a carnival company in Cardiff, SWICA, where it was kept in his garden.
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Pugin took his lead from his father, Auguste Charles (1762-1832) a French emigre who worked as a draughtsman and watercolourist.
Another gothic revival; How Middle Ages architecture helped inspire a new wave of Victorian design
The parliamentarians' visit follows a presentation given by Nick Corbett from Transforming Cities and Sam Miller from Urban Devotion Birmingham in the Palace of Westminster on the Big Story of Pugin project.
Plans to pay tribute to city architect Pugin
Pugin's passion for the Gothic style was of enormous import in his day (he designed the interior decoration at Westminster).
'Gothic for ever'; A.W.N. Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury, and the rebuilding of Catholic England
Blairman & Sons Ltd is especially dedicated to the later period, and identifies 'progressive design' as important to the 19th-century furniture market, 'whether that is Hope, Pugin or [E.W.] Godwin.' He cites a sale at Sworders in April this year, where he purchased a pair of brass candlesticks designed and owned by Pugin (Fig.
Collectors' focus: the market in 19th-century English furniture is in decline, with prices dropping back to late-1980s levels. While this presents an opportunity for collectors, the finest pieces are holding their value, and interest in 18th-century furniture is burgeoning
It shows Pugin''s innovative 'pin-wheel'' interior of rooms radiating from a central staircase.
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Steiger and Pugin of CSEM formed J aggregates of cyanines using a mesoporous support with an average pore diameter greater than 1.5 nm and lined with functionalized dendritic polymers.
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Three years later Pugin apprenticed with the venerated French culinary fraternity of Les Compagnon du Tour de France.
Meticulous simplicity: it's the complete opposite of toiling away and making endless adjustments to a recipe with the intent of achieving the best final product you can
However, without Pugin, the dominant figure in the 19th century Gothic Revival movement, it might never have happened.
Dynamic due are a glass act; antiques CHRISTOPHER PROUDLOVE ON THE WORK OF HARDMAN AND PUGIN
The early Victorian architect and designer, Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852), was what in our day we would call an obsessive and a workaholic.
Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
It is not yet confirmed whether Peter-Paul Pugin or his brother, Cuthbert, personally designed St Oswald's.
BACK in time
Tony Robinson follows the renovation and visits many of Pugin's buildings, discovering how he changed the face of the country.
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