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Mixtec goldwork
Mixtec goldwork is the pre-Hispanic goldworking tradition of the Mixtec people of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, which flourished during the Postclassic period and produced most surviving Mesoamerican gold objects.
Model (person)
Model (person): a person who poses to advertise products in fashion, runway, editorial, commercial, and fit work. Covers casting standards, pay, history from Worth's live models, contractor status, AI replicas, and runway size data.
Modulor
The Modulor is Le Corbusier's anthropometric proportion system, developed 1943–1950 around a 1.83 m figure, the golden section, and red (113 cm) and blue (226 cm) series, published in Le Modulor (1950) and Modulor 2 (1955) and applied in his post-war buildings.
Mold Gold Cape
The Mold Gold Cape is a Bronze Age ceremonial cape of beaten sheet gold found near Mold, Wales, in 1833 and now held by the British Museum.
Monomakh's Cap
Monomakh's Cap (Шапка Мономаха) is a gold, jewel-encrusted ceremonial cap trimmed with sable that crowned Russia's grand princes and tsars from 1498 until 1682, kept in the Moscow Kremlin.
Montezuma's headdress
Montezuma's headdress, also called the Penacho de Moctezuma, is a sixteenth-century Mexica featherwork headdress of quetzal feathers and gold, held in Vienna's Weltmuseum Wien; its Moctezuma attribution cannot be confirmed.
Mood board
Mood board: a collage of images, textures, colors, and text conveying a design concept's feeling at a glance; used early in branding, UX, interior, and fashion design; distinct from concept boards, style guides, and storyboards; term entered the OED in the 1980s.
Moon jar
The Joseon white porcelain moon jar (달항아리, dalhangari) is a large, globular, unadorned white porcelain jar made in Korea during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), named for its resemblance to a full moon.
Moroccan zellige and carved plaster workshops of Fez
The Moroccan zellige and carved plaster workshops of Fez produce zellige, hand-cut glazed tile mosaics, and gebs, carved plasterwork, crafts Fez has kept since medieval times.
Mortlake Tapestry Works
The Mortlake Tapestry Works was an English tapestry manufactory established in 1619 at Mortlake, southwest of London, under James I and directed by Sir Francis Crane until 1703.
Mosaic
Mosaic: art of assembling small tesserae of glass, stone, or ceramic into images or patterns, from ancient pavements to Roman micromosaic jewelry; covers tesserae, gold-leaf glass tesserae, pietra dura, and conservation.
Mughal carpets
Mughal carpets are the pile carpets produced for the Mughal court of India from the mid-sixteenth century onward, chiefly in imperial workshops at Fatehpur Sikri, Agra, and Lahore.
Mughal jade wine cup
A Mughal jade wine cup is a small drinking vessel carved from nephrite jade at the Mughal imperial workshops, chiefly for emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan and often inscribed with Persian verses.
Nabeshima ware
Nabeshima ware (鍋島焼) is Japanese porcelain made at the Saga domain's official kiln, produced as presentation gifts for the Tokugawa shogunate rather than for sale.
Namikawa Yasuyuki
Namikawa Yasuyuki (並河靖之, 1845–1927) was a Japanese cloisonné artist in Kyoto known for fine gold and silver wirework on translucent black enamel, appointed an Imperial Craftsman in 1896.
Naoto Fukasawa
Naoto Fukasawa (深澤直人), born in 1956, is a Japanese product designer known for the MUJI wall-mounted CD player and designs based on unconscious everyday behavior.
Natalia Vodianova (Наталья Михайловна Водянова)
Natalia Vodianova (Наталья Михайловна Водянова), born 1982 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian supermodel nicknamed Supernova, founder of the Naked Heart Foundation, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, ex-wife of Justin Portman, wife of Antoine Arnault.
Nate Berkus
Nate Berkus, American interior designer, author, and TV personality; founder of Nate Berkus Associates (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles); rose to fame on The Oprah Winfrey Show, hosts HGTV shows with husband Jeremiah Brent, and licenses home collections.
Negative space
Negative space, or white space, is the unoccupied area around and between the figure in a composition, equivalent to Gestalt ground. Known from Chinese ink painting to Swiss Style typography; carries shape and suppresses competing forms perceptually.
Neri Oxman (נרי אוקסמן)
Neri Oxman (נרי אוקסמן), American-Israeli designer and former MIT professor, coined "material ecology," founded the Mediated Matter Group and OXMAN, and faced 2024 plagiarism allegations.
Newar metalwork
Newar metalwork is the metalcraft tradition of the Newar people of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, centered on Patan and known for lost-wax casting, repoussé, and fire-gilding.
Nicole Williams English
Nicole Williams English, also Nicole Williams-English (born 1983), Canadian model from Newfoundland, 2026 SI Swimsuit cover model and 2023 Rookie of the Year, Nia Lynn swimwear founder, WAGS and The Girls reality star.
Niki Taylor
Niki Taylor (Nicole Renee Taylor, born 1975), American supermodel, distinct from the Edinburgh designer and podcast host of the same name. '90s icon: Seventeen cover at 14, Vogue at 15, the Niki Six covers of May 1996, CoverGirl 1992-2000 and 2021, survivor of a 2001 car crash.
Norman Bel Geddes
Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958) was an American stage and industrial designer who popularized streamlining with his book Horizons and the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Oribe ware
Oribe ware (Oribe-yaki) is a Japanese stoneware produced in Mino, Gifu Prefecture, from about 1600 to the 1630s, known for its copper-green glaze and deliberately distorted forms.
Otto Künzli
Otto Künzli, born 1948 in Zürich, is a Swiss conceptual jeweler in Munich, best known for the 1980 bracelet Gold Macht Blind (Gold Makes You Blind).
Ottoman textiles
Ottoman textiles are the woven fabrics, embroideries, and carpets of the Ottoman Empire from the 14th century to 1922, centered on court silk brocades and velvets woven chiefly in Bursa.
Oxus Treasure
The Oxus Treasure is a hoard of about 180 gold and silver objects from Achaemenid Persia, found near the River Oxus around 1877–1880 and held mostly in the British Museum.
Paracas Textile
The Paracas Textile is a Nasca ceremonial mantle of about 100–300 C.E., held by the Brooklyn Museum since 1938, with a border of ninety three-dimensional figures.
Paris Fashion Week
Paris Fashion Week (Semaine de la mode de Paris) is the ready-to-wear fashion show series held seasonally in Paris, run by the FHCM since 1973.