UK EVENT
Thu 28 Jun 2018
A unique opportunity to visit a trio of exceptional buildings, all within two minutes of each other and being specially opened for the DAS. Built between 1877 and 1882 in distinct styles to serve...
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Wed 27 Jun 2018
DAS members will have a privileged private view of printed material and manuscripts relating to William Morris in the Society’s main Library. Heather Rowland, Head of Library & Collections, will...
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Fri 01 Jun 2018
This visit will be based around Bridport and have a mainly 20th-century theme. It begins with a visit to the Prince of Wales’s Poundbury with the architectural designer Ben Pentreath, who has...
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Mon 21 May 2018
Dr Ian Jenkins, curator of the exhibition, will lead a private tour of the British Museum’s special exhibition Auguste Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece. This major exhibition represents a...
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FOREIGN STUDY TOUR
Mon 14 May 2018
Harriet Landseer is developing a tour to explore Budapest before travelling via other sites including Kecskemét, a centre of Hungarian Jugendstil in the 1890s, and the beautiful city of Pécs,...
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Wed 09 May 2018
After refreshments, members will preview the forthcoming Art & Design Sale at Cheffins auction house, showcasing decorative art from the 1860s to the present, with talks from specialist valuers...
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Thu 26 Apr 2018
The author and historian Alec Forshaw will lead a walk through south-east Bloomsbury to visit a concentration of buildings and locations closely associated with William Morris, touching also on...
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Wed 11 Apr 2018
The visit begins with a guided tour of the richly decorated interior of the church of St Barnabas (Thomas Cundy, 1847–50). We then move to the new premises nearby of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler...
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Thu 22 Mar 2018
Waddesdon Manor was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874–85 to display his art collection. Opened to the public in 1959, the Manor is now managed by the Rothschild Foundation on behalf...
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Thu 15 Mar 2018
Opened in 1964, many consider the Royal College of Physicians building next to Regent’s Park to be Denys Lasdun’s masterpiece, its importance as a modernist building recognised by its Grade I...
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