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Pat McGrath (make-up artist)
Pat McGrath (born 1966), British make-up artist from Northampton, founder of Pat McGrath Labs, first make-up artist made a dame (D.B.E. 2021), CFDA Founder's Award 2017, Louis Vuitton cosmetics creative director, brand entered Chapter 11 in 2026.
Paul Troost
Paul Ludwig Troost (1878–1934) was a German architect and interior designer, Hitler's favored architect of the early Nazi regime, designer of Munich's House of German Art, Führerbau, and Königsplatz buildings in stripped neoclassicism.
Pei Shimin
Pei Shimin, also known as Pei Deming, was a Chinese master of Yixing zisha pottery, famed for restoring the Gongchun teapot and called "Second Chen Mingyuan".
Peking glass
Peking glass is the glass produced by the imperial glasshouse founded in 1696 in the Qing court's Imperial Workshops in Beijing, and later Chinese glassware made in its style.
Persian tilework
Persian tilework is the architectural use of glazed ceramic tiles on Iranian buildings, practiced from the thirteenth century BC through mosaic faience, luster, and haft-rang techniques.
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920), Russian jeweler of Huguenot descent, headed the House of Fabergé in Saint Petersburg, created the fifty Imperial Easter Eggs for the Romanovs, held court jeweler titles from Russia, Britain, Sweden-Norway, and Siam, and fled revolutionary Russia in 1918.
Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck (born 1949, Paris) is a French designer and architect of hotels (Royalton, Delano), the Juicy Salif squeezer, democratic design, YOO residences, and ISS interiors.
Phyllis Gates
Phyllis Lucille Gates (1925-2006), American secretary and interior designer, was Rock Hudson's wife from 1955 to 1958 and wrote the 1987 memoir My Husband, Rock Hudson.
Pierre Chareau
Pierre Chareau was a French furniture designer, interior decorator, and architect of the Art Deco and modern movement, best known for the Maison de Verre in Paris, built 1928 to 1932.
Pietra dura
Pietra dura, in Italy also called commesso, is a decorative technique in which shaped colored stones are fitted into a stone backing to form pictorial designs.
Priam's Treasure
Priam's Treasure is a hoard of gold, silver, and copper objects uncovered by Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlık, the site of ancient Troy, in 1873, now held in Moscow.
Qajar tilework
Qajar tilework is the polychrome ceramic tile decoration produced in Iran during the Qajar dynasty (1779–1924), used on mosques, palaces, and city gates and increasingly shaped by European motifs through the nineteenth century.
Qianlong jade carving
Qianlong jade carving (乾隆玉雕) is the Qing court's jade production during the Qianlong Emperor's reign, 1735 to 1796, considered the most glorious period of Chinese jade carving.
Quilling
Quilling, or paper filigree, is the craft of rolling narrow paper strips into coils and shapes to form decorative designs. Originating with 15th-century French and Italian religious orders imitating metal filigree, it became an 18th-century English pastime and survives through guilds and contemporary artists.
Quillwork
Quillwork is an embroidery art of North American Indigenous peoples in which dyed porcupine quills are stitched onto hide, birchbark, or fabric, historically practiced almost exclusively by women.
Rabanne (fashion house)
Rabanne, formerly Paco Rabanne, is a French fashion and fragrance house founded in Paris in 1966 by the Spanish-born designer Paco Rabanne, known for metal and plastic garments.
Rangoli (रंगोली)
Rangoli (रंगोली), also called alpana, kolam, muggu, or mandana, is the traditional Indian art of drawing decorative floor patterns with coloured powders, rice paste, and petals for festivals, rituals, and daily practice across India's regions.
Renaissance Egg
The Renaissance Egg is an 1894 Imperial Fabergé Easter egg that Tsar Alexander III gave to Empress Maria Feodorovna, now in the Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg.
René Lalique
René Lalique (1860–1945) was a French jeweler and glassmaker, celebrated for Art Nouveau jewelry and, after 1912, Art Deco glass, including perfume bottles for François Coty.
Richard Riemerschmid
Richard Riemerschmid (1868–1957) was a German painter, architect, and furniture designer who led Munich Jugendstil, co-founded the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907, and planned the garden city Hellerau.
Richard Sapper
Richard Sapper (1932–2015) was a German industrial designer based in Milan who created the Tizio lamp for Artemide and the original IBM ThinkPad, and served as IBM's chief design consultant.
Robert Adam
Robert Adam (1728–1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer, and furniture designer who led British Neoclassicism; with his brothers he created the Adam Style, influential across Europe and North America.
Rosebud Egg
The Rosebud Egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg made in 1895, when Tsar Nicholas II gave it to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna as her first Easter egg.
Rothschild Egg
The Rothschild Egg is a jewelled 1902 Fabergé egg with a clock and automaton cockerel, made by Michael Perkhin as an engagement gift for Germaine Halphen.
Royal Gold Cup
The Royal Gold Cup, also called the Saint Agnes Cup, is a solid gold hanap enameled with scenes from the life of Saint Agnes, made in France in the late 14th century.
Ru ware
Ru ware (汝窑) is a Song dynasty Chinese celadon made for the Northern Song imperial court in the early 12th century, prized for its sky-blue glaze and rarity.
Russel Wright
Russel Wright (1904–1976) was an American industrial designer from Lebanon, Ohio, whose inexpensive American Modern dinnerware, sold from 1939 to 1959, brought modern design into ordinary American homes.
Ruth De Jong
Ruth De Jong, American production designer born in San Bernardino, California; trained under Jack Fisk on There Will Be Blood; designed Manchester by the Sea, Twin Peaks (Emmy nomination), Us, Nope, and Nolan's Oppenheimer (Oscar and BAFTA nominations), and The Odyssey (2026).
Şadırvan
A şadırvan is a domed or canopied water structure built in a mosque courtyard for ritual ablution, with taps around a central pool; it forms an integral part of Ottoman mosque architecture.
Safavid figural tilework panels
Safavid figural tilework panels are large compositions of painted stonepaste tiles made in seventeenth-century Iran, chiefly Isfahan, depicting figures, animals, and garden scenes in palace pavilions.