UK EVENT
Thu 16 Mar 2023
A visit to see the archives of the John Lewis Partnership which are now housed in a new centre. The archives include photographs, documents, merchandise, examples of the pottery previously made...
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ZOOM LECTURE
Sun 19 Feb 2023
Zoom lecture by Rebecca Klarner, at 6.00 pm (London). The intersection between art and ceramics that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries will be explored in this lecture about the artistic legacy...
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Wed 01 Feb 2023
Visit to a private collection with fine examples of English and American Arts & Crafts furniture, sculpture, paintings, photography and ceramics, in the context of the owner’s Edwardian house...
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Sun 20 Nov 2022
Zoom lecture by Tony Peart, at 6.00 pm (London). The Fulham Pottery, which remained on the same site for over three centuries, is celebrated in the history of ceramics as the first pottery in...
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Sat 12 Nov 2022
The Annual Meeting of DAS Members will be held at The Museum of the Home (formerly The Geffrye Museum), which reopened last year following a major building project. The Museum’s purpose is to...
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Wed 02 Nov 2022
Robert Drake will lead another afternoon tour to three churches, this time in the City and East End fringes. All have much decorative arts interest. The Dutch Church in Austin Friars was rebuilt...
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Wed 19 Oct 2022
Kelmscott Manor will be well known to DAS members as the country retreat from 1871 to 1896 of William Morris, who saw it as his spiritual home. It has been owned by the Society of Antiquaries for...
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Sun 16 Oct 2022
Zoom lecture by Clive Edwards, at 6.00 pm (London). Collinson & Lock are recognised as a classic producer of later 19th-century art furniture. This talk will look at two aspects of the...
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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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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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