Podcasts about i m pei

Colin Bisset turns his attention to that iconic fashion item, the T-shirt.This segment first aired in May 2019.

Glass is the material of fantasies. It's the nearest one can get to building with nothing but air.

Has there ever been a better way of measuring a piece of string?

Snug and warm, a pair of slippers takes us back to babyhood, when our fat little feet were kept toasty in knitted booties.

The house he built for himself and his family in Moscow is famous because it's just so odd.

Ernest, Alfred and Otto Wunderlich transformed the look of the Australian built environment, one terracotta tile at a time.

In Turkey, the practice is called ebru, from a word meaning water surface. The water itself was thickened into what is called size, using carrageen or plant starch, enabling different pigments to be floated and then worked upon, creating densely coloured designs.

The bobby pin seems to sum up femininity, even when used by men, from Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, who kept his hair in place at night using them, to the elaborate coiffure of drag queens.

The Dominican priest who coaxed the greatest names in Western art into producing some of their finest work.

Glass is the material of fantasies. It's the nearest one can get to building with nothing but air.

The smoothest, richest fabric, imbued with the soul of craftsmanship that transforms everything it touches into a work of limitless sensuality.

Has there ever been a better way of measuring a piece of string?

An individual voice with a singular architectural vision to give pleasure and dignity, embodied in the city of Ljubljana.

In the 1940s, a prototype of the world's first and most beautiful jet airliner took to the skies; it would forever change the way we travel.

Open, timeless and original: Los Angeles' twenty-two houses that were influential around the world.

An elegant, seemingly simple house in Galway that was home to Robert O'Hara Burke, later John Huston and host to some of the 20th century's creative and intellectual superstars.

So simple it's almost laughable – a single jet of water shooting upwards out of a lake, as though a giant whale has got stuck on pause.

A manmade fibre that signalled a shift in our relationship to nature and the great outdoors.

Transcript -- Architect, I M Pei, discusses the design brief for his pyramid entrance to the Louvre.

Transcript -- Architect, I M Pei, discusses the design brief for his pyramid entrance to the Louvre.

Architect, I M Pei, discusses the design brief for his pyramid entrance to the Louvre.

Architect, I M Pei, discusses the design brief for his pyramid entrance to the Louvre.