"Conservative Hamburg only permits white paint for its ceilings, doors and windows, and, at most, economical gilding", remonstrated once the decorative painter Peter Gustaf Dorén.1 And set about rectifying that, set about bringing more colour to Hamburg...... Peter Gustaf Dorén. Interior Design in Hamburg circa 1900 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Born on September 21st 1857 in Sireköpinge, southern Sweden, as Peter Gustaf Andersson, the "Dorén", we learn in the exhibition, being
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Alongside the Chinese and Korean New Year celebrations one of the most popular observances in any given February is, arguably, the Feast Day of Saint Valentine on February 14th; St Valentine famously being the patron saint of greetings card manufacturers, lovers, but less famously, if just as importantly, also offering protection from the plague. Now while the misanthropes amongst you will query whether love and plague aren't synonyms, and a pox upon you for that; this February 14th we could
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