I asked Tan in Stockholm why he took on commissions that would obviously require a show of Chinese patriotism.
Increasingly, Vuillard took on commissions from the upper classes, in whose circles he spent his later years.
Instead he will teach at the University of Southern California's Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, coach companies performing his earlier work and — the dance world waits — perhaps take on commissions.
Mostly because Mediated Matter is a research group—likely the single academic group amongst this year's list of designers operating in an academic setting while also taking on commissions.
After completing her course at Swansea, Laure made and sold glass at craft fairs and in craft shops in Cardiff and took on commissions for domestic stained glass windows.
Within two years I started taking on commissions of my own and painted every day for four years.
Being the only major architect practising in the area between Preston and Carlisle, Paley took on commissions of all sizes and types but, like Sharpe, his major designs were for churches.
He was referring to the ability, which his office has become famous for, to jump nimbly between scales and design categories and to take on commissions that usually go to highly specialized firms.
