Designed by Shapali Kalam, 15, it is the most conspicuous result of a two-year sculpture project run as part of a GCSE applied art and design course.
The exam regulator Ofqual said it would be scrapping AS and A-levels in applied art and design, applied business, human biology, and economics and business, thus reducing curriculum breadth that schools can offer.
North College, in Thessaloniki, delivers four full-time undergraduate programmes leading to BA awards in business studies and applied art and design, and a BSc in computer studies, following the completion of Higher National Diplomas undertaken in the UK.
Mr. Rechen said he hoped that a museum, perhaps one that specializes in applied arts or design, would bid.
The two main aspects of this fresh departure were a romantic enthusiasm for a legendary past instead of the realism of "truth to nature" and the ambition of reforming the applied arts of design.
At the same time, she said, she was riffing on an old term for design: "applied art".
Mr. McWhinnie said the shop would still have, for example, "the best book on beekeeping, on gardening and on high-end modernist fiction and literature, with great inscriptions," but will now feature "design and applied art" more prominently.
That a Chinese court was willing to enforce an industrial design (or applied art) copyright is significant, say lawyers with experience in Chinese intellectual property matters.
From Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, they had the concept of applied art, so that there needed to be no distinction between high art, design, philosophy, poetry, tablecloths: that living a complete life meant bringing creative intellect to everything.
