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Sue Kent
Sue Kent is a British garden designer and BBC Two Gardeners' World and Garden Rescue presenter, an RHS disability ambassador who gardens with her feet due to Thalidomide, winning Hampton Court 2022 Silver Gilt for #knollingwithdaisies.
Sun and Immortal Birds Gold Ornament
The Sun and Immortal Birds Gold Ornament (太阳神鸟金饰) is a circular gold-foil ornament from the ancient Shu culture, unearthed in 2001 at the Jinsha Site in Chengdu, Sichuan.
Sussanne Khan
Sussanne Khan, Indian interior and product designer, founder of The Charcoal Project (Mumbai, 2011), YOO creative director, AD100 honoree, ex-wife of Hrithik Roshan.
Tabriz carpet
A Tabriz carpet is a hand-knotted carpet woven in or attributed to the workshops of Tabriz, one of Iran's oldest rug-weaving centers, from Safavid times to today.
Tairona goldwork
Tairona goldwork is the pre-Hispanic gold and tumbaga metalwork of the Tairona culture of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, made from about 200 to 1600 CE.
Tapio Wirkkala
Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985) was a Finnish designer and sculptor, best known for glassware for Iittala, including the Ultima Thule series inspired by melting Lapland ice.
Tara Brooch
The Tara Brooch is a silver-gilt, pseudo-penannular brooch of the late 7th or early 8th century, found at Bettystown, County Meath, in 1850 and displayed in Dublin since 1890.
Tenjukoku Shūchō
Tenjukoku Shūchō, also called Tenjukoku Mandara Shūchō, is a National Treasure Asuka-period embroidery commissioned by Prince Shōtoku's widow after his death in 622, depicting his rebirth in the paradise Tenjukoku.
Terence Conran
Sir Terence Conran (1931–2020) was a British designer and retailer who founded Habitat in 1964 and the Design Museum in London, credited with bringing modern, affordable design to Britain.
Tessa Prieto-Valdes
Tessa Prieto-Valdes (Maria Theresa Isabel Prieto Valdes), Filipino interior designer, Inquirer columnist, and TV host; founder of Tessa Group and co-founder of the Red Charity Gala, which raised over 30 million pesos.
The Australian Ugliness
The Australian Ugliness is a controversial 1960 bestseller by Australian architect Robin Boyd critiquing postwar Australia's architecture and design, coining "featurism" for the country's dominant design failing.
The Lady and the Unicorn
The Lady and the Unicorn (La Dame à la licorne), also called the Cluny Tapestries, is a set of six wool-and-silk Flemish tapestries woven around 1480–1500, five on the senses plus À Mon Seul Désir, held at the Musée de Cluny, Paris.
Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779) was an English cabinetmaker and furniture designer whose London workshop furnished great Georgian houses like Harewood, and whose 1754 pattern book named an era.
Thomas Sheraton
Thomas Sheraton (1751–1806) was an English furniture designer and author whose Drawing-Book of 1791–1793 defined the neoclassical furniture style that bears his name; he was a designer rather than a working cabinetmaker.
Tiffany glass
Tiffany glass is decorative glass made by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios from the late 1870s into the 1920s, known for iridescent windows and lamps.
Tiffany lamp
Tiffany lamp: leaded-glass shade on a bronze base made by Tiffany Studios, Louis Comfort Tiffany's New York firm (about 1898–1933). Art Nouveau floral and geometric designs, many by Clara Driscoll; originals now sell for six to seven figures.
Tiffany Yellow Diamond
The Tiffany Yellow Diamond is a 128.54-carat cushion-cut Fancy Yellow diamond, one of the largest ever found, discovered in South Africa in 1877 and owned by Tiffany & Co.
Tillya Tepe crown
The Tillya Tepe crown is a collapsible gold crown from the first century CE, excavated in 1978 from the tomb of a nomadic woman at Tillya Tepe in northern Afghanistan.
Timurid architectural mosaic faience of Samarqand
Timurid architectural mosaic faience of Samarqand is a tile technique where each pattern element is separately cut, fired, and set into plaster, used from 1370 to 1507.
Tina Chow
Tina Chow (Bettina Louise Lutz, 1950–1992), Japanese-American model, jewelry designer, and style icon; married restaurateur Michael Chow, famed for minimalist 'minimal chic' style and quartz-and-bamboo jewelry.
Tina Kunakey
Tina Kunakey Di Vita, born 1997 in Toulouse, is a French model and actress of Togolese and Sicilian descent based in Paris, signed with IMG, Elite, and Next, and known for campaigns with Prada, Jacquemus, Victoria's Secret, and her 2018 marriage to Vincent Cassel.
Tiwanaku textiles
Tiwanaku textiles are the woven cloths of the Tiwanaku state (about 500–1100), centered near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, including tapestry tunics and four-cornered hats bearing the staff deity of the Gateway of the Sun.
Toledo steel
Toledo steel is the famed sword steel of Toledo, Spain, whose blades were considered Europe's best between the 15th and 17th centuries for temper and flexibility.
Tomimoto Kenkichi
Tomimoto Kenkichi (富本憲吉; 1886–1963) was a Japanese ceramic artist from Nara Prefecture and the first Living National Treasure, honored for overglaze enamel porcelain in 1955.
Topkapi Dagger
The Topkapi Dagger is a jeweled 18th-century Ottoman ceremonial dagger made in 1746 for Sultan Mahmud I's gift to Nadir Shah of Iran, now displayed in Topkapi Palace's treasury.
Trans-Siberian Railway Egg
The Trans-Siberian Railway Egg is a 1900 Imperial Fabergé Easter egg given by Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, commemorating the nearly completed Trans-Siberian Railway with a removable, wind-up miniature train.
Tsarevich Egg
The Tsarevich Egg is a 1912 Imperial Fabergé egg of lapis lazuli, given by Tsar Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra at Easter 1912 for their heir Alexei's eighth birthday.
Tsuba
Tsuba (鍔) is the hand guard of a Japanese sword, a flat plate protecting the hand that became a highly valued metal art widely collected today.
Unno Shōmin
Unno Shōmin (海野勝珉, 1844–1915) was a Japanese metalwork artist of the Mito school, a professor at the Tokyo Fine Arts School and an Imperial Household Artist.
Van Cleef & Arpels
Van Cleef & Arpels, French high jewelry and watchmaking Maison founded 1906 at 22 Place Vendôme, Paris, by Alfred Van Cleef and Charles Arpels after the 1895 Arpels-Van Cleef marriage; Richemont-owned since 2003, known for the Mystery Set and zip necklace.