UK EVENT
Thu 08 Feb 2024
No. 68 is probably the last of the Victorian town houses in Chelsea’s Cadogan Square with a largely unaltered layout. Designed by Richard Norman Shaw in 1878, the house is currently used as a...
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Mon 15 Jan 2024
A visit to the archives of Whitelands College which include artefacts donated by John Ruskin and dresses and robes (including those designed by Kate Greenaway) which have been worn since 1881 by...
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ZOOM LECTURE
Sun 10 Dec 2023
Zoom lecture by Jessica Insley at 6.00 pm (London). John, 3rd Marquess of Bute, was a scholarly man with a fortune and a passion for working collaboratively with craftsmen. Between 1870 and 1900,...
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Sat 18 Nov 2023
The Annual Meeting of Members is being held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This will give members an opportunity to see the exhibition Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design,...
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Sun 29 Oct 2023
Zoom lecture by Clive Stewart-Lockhart at 6.00 pm (London). Betty Joel was born in Hong Kong in 1894; nothing in her early life prepared her for the extraordinary success of her eponymous...
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Thu 19 Oct 2023
A visit to a private collection on the Holly Village estate built by Cubitt in High Victorian Gothic style. The collection includes pieces by Pugin, Violet-le-Duc and Sir Hubert von Herkomer as...
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Fri 13 Oct 2023
Pevsner described Hampstead Garden Suburb as ‘that most nearly perfect example of the English invention and speciality, the Garden Suburb’. Kate and Martin Webster, long-standing Suburb...
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Fri 29 Sep 2023
The visit will begin with a talk on the furniture in Speaker’s House from Pugin’s house, The Grange in Ramsgate, and on the Minton ceramics. There will follow a tour of Speaker’s House with...
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FOREIGN STUDY TOUR
Mon 18 Sep 2023
This 5-day tour will give members the opportunity to explore the treasures of Krakow, which was the heart of the Young Poland movement, and to see the context of the objects which were loaned to...
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Thu 14 Sep 2023
A day visit to see the third Gloucestershire Guild Crafts Alive Festival at Rodmarton Manor and for a tour of the iconic early 20th-century Arts & Crafts country house, designed by Ernest...
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