Fire screens enabled actual flames to creep across the urban landscape without damaging any of the equipment.
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Emma is constantly surrounded by furniture-toting servants, rushing to reposition a parade of fire screens at the urging of Emma's father.
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New innovations reveal the clever adaptation of tukutuku to make fire screens, glass-covered tabletops, and room dividers.
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The floral tapestry pattern was designed by Alma Theresia Pihl, who was inspired by needlework fire screens found in aristocratic sitting rooms of the time. Pihl was the niece of the egg's workmaster Albert Holmström, who came from a family of Finnish jewelers employed by Fabergé.
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The album was support by The Sobrenatural Tour, which started with the song "5 letras" and ended with the song "Sobrenatural." The show featured fire, screens, pyrotechnics and dancers plus DJ. Their opening act featured "Los Yetzon," a group of singers who were friends of them.
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Rais was a department head of blacksmithing at Peter's Valley from 1998 to 2001. He has run his own design and metalsmithing studio since 1998. He now resides in Philadelphia, PA. While at Cranbrook, Rais was approached by two collectors to make three fire screens for their large Arts and Crafts style home in Bloomfield, Michigan.
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Kate Muriel Mason Eadie (4 May 1880 - 8 November 1945) was an English jeweller and craftswoman in Birmingham, working in the Arts and Crafts style. In September 1940, she married the Birmingham Pre-Raphaelite painter Sidney Meteyard, whom she met when she studied at Birmingham School of Art, having modelled for many of his pictures, including Jasmine. They worked together on stained glass. A well as jewellery, she made larger items such as fire screens.
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Brenkley was also a wood carver and produced domestic items such as tables, fire screens, umbrella stands, bookends, paperknives, breadboards, decorated boxes and eggcups. These were created with a pocketknife and paintbrush. Brenkley admired Māori culture and many of her items feature artistic elements of Māori style, such as using pāua shell for the eyes of carved figures. A piece of her wood carving work was displayed in the women's section of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1939.
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During the 1930s the Great Depression came so the shop was closed as people did not have money for luxuries like jewellery. Henry started doing beaten copper work under the house in Arnold Road making; box curbs, fire screens and bellows. He made all his own designs and dyes and sold his works to The Farmers Trading Company in Hobson Street. During the hard times, Henry got labouring jobs hand mixing concrete on such places as The Civic Theatre in Auckland and the Chateau Tongariro. Faith (Faye) Smith was born on 2 July 1930.
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Various reconstructions have been attempted, and a 1990 reconstruction of the score by American composer Jonathan Dobin has been used in a number of modern productions.Dobin, Jonathan. Jonathan Dobin's The Beggar's Opera website , accessed 6 November 2009 Gay uses the operatic norm of three acts (as opposed to the standard in spoken drama of the time of five acts), and tightly controls the dialogue and plot so that there are surprises in each of the forty-five fast-paced scenes and 69 short songs. The success of the opera was accompanied by a public desire for keepsakes and mementos, ranging from images of Polly on fans and clothing, playing cards and fire-screens, broadsides featuring all the characters, and the rapidly published musical score of the opera.
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