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Kaare Klint
Kaare Klint was a Danish architect and furniture designer, a founder of modern Danish design and first docent of the Royal Danish Academy's furniture school.
Kaj Franck
Kaj Franck (1911–1989) was a Finnish glass and ceramic designer known for the Kilta and Teema tableware and Kartio glassware, and long artistic director of Arabia and Nuutajärvi.
Kakiemon
Kakiemon (柿右衛門) is the hereditary name of a family of Arita potters in Japan, active since the 17th century, known for red-decorated overglaze enamel porcelain.
Kamisaka Sekka
Kamisaka Sekka (神坂雪佳, real name Yoshitaka, 1866–1942) was a Japanese designer and painter in Kyoto who carried the Rimpa decorative tradition into modern design and is seen as a pioneer of Japanese modern design.
Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop
Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop is a carpentry studio in Teshie, Ghana, founded in the early 1950s by Seth Kane Kwei, inventor of figurative fantasy coffins.
Karen Elson
Karen Elson, born Karen Jill Elson in 1979, is an English model and singer-songwriter from Oldham who rose to fame on the 1997 Vogue Italia cover and has released three albums.
Karl Drerup
Karl Drerup (1904–2000) was a German-American painter and enamelist, a leader of the mid-century American enameling revival known for Limoges-style painted enamels of landscapes and working people.
Károly Kós
Károly Kós, born Károly Kosch (1883–1977), was a Hungarian architect, writer, and politician who created a national style from Transylvanian folk architecture and led Hungarian cultural life in Romania.
Katō Tokurō
Katō Tokurō (加藤唐九郎), born Kanō Shōkūrō, was a Japanese ceramic artist from Seto, Aichi, who re-created the Shino and Oribe tea wares of the Momoyama period and surveyed old kiln sites.
Kelly Hoppen
Kelly Hoppen (Kelly Elaine Hoppen), British interior designer born in South Africa, known as the 'Queen of Taupe' for her neutral East-meets-West style; MBE and CBE honoree, Dragons' Den investor, author, and designer of Celebrity Edge and the 2024 M&S homeware range.
Khokhloma
Khokhloma (Хохлома) is a Russian folk craft of painting and lacquering wooden tableware in red, black, and gold, arising in the second half of the 17th century near Nizhny Novgorod.
Khorasan school of metalwork
The Khorasan school of metalwork produced bronze and brass wares inlaid with silver, copper, or gold in eastern Iran, mainly at Herat, until the Mongol invasion of 1219.
Kilim motifs
Kilim motifs are the geometric patterns of kilim (gelim) flat-woven tapestry rugs of Anatolia, Iran, the Balkans, and Central Asia. Slit-weave technique limits designs to triangles, diamonds, and stepped forms; named motifs like çengel and elibelinde carry regionally varying meanings.
Kinkō
Kinkō (金工) is the Japanese art of metalwork, covering casting, forging, and chased decoration; in the sword world it denotes the maker of sword fittings such as the tsuba.
Kitaōji Rosanjin
Kitaōji Rosanjin (北大路魯山人, born Fusajirō, 1883–1959) was a Japanese ceramicist, calligrapher, and restaurateur, chef of Hoshigaoka Saryō in Tokyo, who turned to pottery, holding that tableware is the kimono of cuisine.
Kizaemon Ido tea bowl
The Kizaemon Ido (喜左衛門井戸) is a 16th-century Korean ōido tea bowl, the only Korean tea bowl made a National Treasure, now kept at Kōhōan in Kyoto.
Klaus Moje
Klaus Moje (1936–2016) was a German-born glass artist, founding head of the Glass Workshop at the Canberra School of Art and a pioneer of kiln-formed mosaic glass.
Kōami school
The Kōami school (幸阿弥家) was a hereditary Japanese lineage of maki-e lacquer artists serving as official maki-e masters from the Muromachi period through the Edo period.
Kōrin Maki-e Box
The Kōrin Maki-e Box (光琳蒔絵硯箱) is a lacquer writing box by the Edo-period artist Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716), combining gold maki-e with mother-of-pearl and lead inlay.
Krissy Taylor
Krissy Taylor (Kristen Erin Taylor, 1978–1995), American model and younger sister of supermodel Niki Taylor; over 13 magazine covers, Milan runways at 14, died at 17 in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
Kuba royal art
Kuba royal art is the court art of the Kuba Kingdom in the Congo basin, best known for its ndop royal portrait statues and geometric raffia cloth.
Kündekari
Kündekari (kündekârî; Ottoman Turkish كنده كارى) is an Islamic decorative joinery technique in which small geometric wooden pieces interlock without nails or glue, used on mosque doors and minbars.
Kutani ware
Kutani ware (九谷焼, Kutani-yaki) is a Japanese overglaze-enamel porcelain first fired around 1655 in Kutani village, southern Ishikawa Prefecture, known for bold decoration in green, yellow, red, purple, and blue.
Lady Amelia Spencer
Lady Amelia Spencer, British model and socialite, twin sister of Lady Eliza Spencer, daughter of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, niece of Princess Diana; raised in Cape Town, married Greg Mallett in 2023, signed to Storm Management.
Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck
Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck, known as Lara Cosima, German-American countess, model, and influencer born 2003 in Florida; daughter of Oscar winner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; Le Bal 2023 debutante, Armani runway model, engaged to François Pinault Jr.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (born 1965, London) is a British interior designer, TV presenter and artist, famous as lead designer of BBC's Changing Rooms from 1996, known for flamboyant maximalist design and purple signature colour.
Law Roach
Law Roach, American celebrity stylist and self-described "image architect" from Chicago, known for Zendaya, Céline Dion, method dressing, the 2022 inaugural CFDA Stylist Award, and his 2023 retirement announcement.
Leni Klum
Leni Klum (Leni Olumi Klum), German-American model born 2004 in New York City; daughter of Heidi Klum and Flavio Briatore, adopted by Seal. Debuted 2021 on Vogue Germany's cover, walks limitedly (Dolce & Gabbana), fronts Intimissimi, Dior Beauty, and GUESS campaigns.
Liao gilt-bronze crown and mask set
The Liao gilt-bronze crown and mask set is the metal funeral crown and face mask buried on Khitan nobles of the Liao dynasty (916–1125), best known from the Princess of Chen's tomb.
Lilies of the Valley Egg
The Lilies of the Valley Egg is an 1898 Fabergé Imperial Easter egg, a rose-pink enameled gift from Tsar Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.