Contents

• Review of the year 2004-2005
• Introduction
• Dr Christopher Dresser: a commercial designer in the Victorian Art World, Charlotte Gere
• Christopher Dresser and the use of contemporary science: Stuart Durant
  Dresser and Owen Jones, Charles Newton
• 'We may borrow what is good from all peoples': Christopher Dresser and Islamic art, Francesca Vanke Altman
• The evolution of Christopher Dresser's 'Art Botanical' depiction of nature: Ken Tadashi Oshima
• Design and manufacture: evidence from the Dixon & Sons calculation books, Judy Rudoe
• Christopher Dresser: from design to retail in the late 19th century, Peter Rose
• The death of Christopher Dresser in Mulhouse, Bernard Jacqué
• More on Dresser in the United Estates, David A. Taylor
• 'The Dadocracy' and other humorous reations to 'aesthetic' interior decoration, David A. Taylor with Charlotte Gere