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Dazzling luxury

As the 20th century dawned, both elite and masses basked in the marvellous and unearthly glow of the new electric illumination.

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You know the drill

Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.

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Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

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The evil eye and social anxiety

The ‘look’ of the evil eye is believed to bring bad luck, illness or even death. This ancient curse might be deliberate, inflicted with an envious glare, or it could be accidental, the result of undue attention or excessive praise.

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  • Marble urns and vases, and lamps. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
  • The salt mines at Dürrenberg: men with lamps are sliding down into the mine. Etching.
  • A shopkeeper selling earthen diyas (lamps) (?) to a man. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Basilica of Saint Peter, Vatican: the church and the colonnade, lit by lamps at night. Coloured etching.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: sculptures, ornaments and lamps manufactured by Koenig & Lengsfeld. Photograph, 1904.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Chinese pavilion: decorative furniture, lamps and other interior decorations. Photograph, 1904.
  • Lampas: or, descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps & waterpoises. Together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries / Made by Robert Hooke.
  • Great Exhibition, London, 1851: the exhibition stand of Matifat showing gilt bronze lamps, vases, clocks and other ornaments. Wood engraving after H. Anelay, 1851.
  • The wise virgins take their lamps to the newly married couple; the foolish virgins sleep. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after D.H. Friston.
  • A woman is passing a shop selling oil lamps and is knocked off her feet by the blast of an explosion. Etching by Richard Dighton.
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