UK EVENT
Wed 28 Feb 2018
The Museum tells the story of Central St Martins’ rich history and has been collecting work by staff and students since the late 19th century in areas from fashion and textiles to ceramics,...
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Wed 21 Feb 2018
Arts and Crafts designer Archibald Knox’s work for Liberty is well known; less so are his years teaching at Kingston upon Thames. Following his sudden departure in 1912, student Denise Tuckfield...
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Wed 31 Jan 2018
The museum at Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden holds a huge stock of metalwork, textiles, ceramics and furniture connected with the development of freemasonry in Britain and its Empire,...
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Tue 23 Jan 2018
Although tens of thousands of middle-class terraced houses were built in London at the end of the 19th century, very few have retained their character and fittings through changes in fashion and...
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Tue 14 Nov 2017
In two groups we will visit the Fashion and Textile Museum for a tour of the exhibition on Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989), considered a pioneer of modern fashion photography; and London...
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Sat 04 Nov 2017
The AGM will be held again at Sotheby’s Institute of Art by kind permission of the Director. The formal proceedings will be followed by brief talks on current museum developments or decorative...
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Tue 31 Oct 2017
From cars to aeroplanes, furniture to architecture, and handmaking to digital manufacture, Plywood: Material of the Modern World is the first major exhibition on a material that has shaped global...
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Fri 13 Oct 2017
From Friday 13th to Sunday 15th October 2017 we are planning a visit to a very fine private collection of Arts and Crafts furniture in a magnificent historic house near Berwick-on-Tweed. The...
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FOREIGN STUDY TOUR
Mon 25 Sep 2017
A visit to Romania from 25th-30th September, 2017. Led by Harriet Landseer to include late 19th and early 20th century architecture, interiors and furniture collections in Bucharest and the...
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Thu 27 Jul 2017
A visit to one of London’s most powerful buildings, rising 215 feet above Bloomsbury. Designed by Charles Holden, this Grade ll* modernist building contains the world-famous Senate House Library...
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