Past Events

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PAST EVENTS

Past Events from the Decorative Arts Society

A VISIT TO THE CAST COURTS, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON

UK EVENT

Thu 13 Oct 2022

Opened in 1873, the Cast Courts display copies of some of the world’s most significant works of art reproduced in plaster, electrotype, photography and digital media. Michelangelo’s David,...

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A VISIT TO FRINTON-ON-SEA

UK EVENT

Sat 16 Jul 2022

Frinton-on-Sea was one of the early 20th-century forerunners in seaside town development and still offers a memorable picture of English domestic architecture of the first half of the last...

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A PRIVATE TOUR OF CHARLES JENCKS’S COSMIC HOUSE, LONDON

UK EVENT

Tue 28 Jun 2022

Charles Jencks (1939–2019), architect, landscape designer, architectural theorist, critic and promoter of postmodernism, totally remodelled his 19th Century family house between 1979 and 1984...

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A VISIT TO THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM AND THE NEMON STUDIO AND ARCHIVE, OXFORD

UK EVENT

Tue 21 Jun 2022

This all-day visit to Oxford will begin at the Ashmolean Museum, where curator Matthew Winterbottom will show us the 19th Century galleries, including the acquisitions from the Albert Dawson...

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THE LAKE DISTRICT

UK EVENT

Fri 20 May 2022

A group has now been confirmed for this tour led by Tony Peart. Please contact David Wurtzel, Chairman of the Events sub-committee, if you wish to be on the waiting list in case of cancellations....

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A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY GLASS, LONDON

UK EVENT

Tue 10 May 2022

In celebration of the International Year of Glass 2022, there is an opportunity to visit in central London an outstanding collection amassed over 40 years, including modern and studio glass, much...

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A WALK IN ‘OLD CHELSEA’

UK EVENT

Tue 26 Apr 2022

Robin Wyatt’s walk will take us past the homes and studios of some of the numerous practitioners of fine and decorative arts who have lived and worked in Chelsea, including Rossetti, Sickert and...

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The Rebirth of the Terraced House

ZOOM LECTURE

Sun 24 Apr 2022

Zoom lecture by Andrew Dolkart, at 6.00 pm (London). Beginning in 1908, the English émigré architect Frederick Sterner changed the character of New York’s ubiquitous but obsolete brick and...

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VISIT TO THE CENTRE OF CERAMIC ART (COCA) AT YORK ART GALLERY

UK EVENT

Wed 06 Apr 2022

Dr Helen Walsh, curator of ceramic art at York Museums Trust will give us a tour of the exhibition The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony about the collection of W.A. Ismay, the UK’s most prolific collector...

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Liberty-era Palermo

FOREIGN STUDY TOUR

Mon 07 Mar 2022

A group has now been confirmed for this tour led by Harriet Landseer. Please contact David Wurtzel, Chairman of the Events sub-committee, if you wish to be on the waiting list in case of...

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