Thursday 25 July 2019
The Decorative Arts Society is delighted to announce that it has awarded a research travel grant of £1000 to independent scholar Ngozi Ikoku. She will pursue a project exploring the history and...
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Monday 24 June 2019
Kelmscott House in Hammersmith was the beloved home of Victorian designer, poet, writer and socialist William Morris and his family for the last 18 years of his life. In the first exhibition of...
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Monday 17 June 2019
The Livery Halls of the City of London are, alongside Wren’s churches, its finest architectural inheritance, but rarely accessible to the general public. This book, beautifully designed and...
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Thursday 30 May 2019
Gorham silver: Designing Brilliance 1850-1970 highlights the legacy of what was the largest silver company in the world. Home to the largest collection of Gorham, the RISD Museum presents...
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Thursday 19 December 2019
The Decorative Arts Society is delighted to announce that the March 2019 Collections Access Grant of £5000 has been awarded to Haslemere Educational Museum to publish a book entitled The Rustic...
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Wednesday 24 April 2019
This show charts ceramic artist Magdalene Odundo’s 40-year-plus career through her own work and particularly her relationship with other objects. More than 50 of her pieces are complemented by a...
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Tuesday 23 April 2019
Helen Ritchie’s book highlights 70 pieces of jewellery and metalwork from the Fitzwilliam Museum’s applied arts collection which are not usually on permanent display. It was published to...
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Tuesday 26 March 2019
The Milford House Preservation Trust has combined a DAS acquisition grant of £2000 with a substantial grant from the Henry Moore Foundation to purchase three sculptures: a marble of Psyche and a...
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Wednesday 13 February 2019
Red House occupies a unique position in the history of William Morris’s career and most people will be familiar with the role that the experience of decorating and furnishing the interiors played...
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Saturday 26 January 2019
In this nicely designed book, design historian Libby Sellers seeks to ‘reinsert the enduring influence of women’s contribution [to design] into mainstream consciousness.’ She argues that this...
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