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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Tuesday 08 January 2019
The development of Keith New as a leading modernist innovator in stained glass design and technique is detailed in the first section of this book. The second half provides a catalogue raisonné;...
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Friday 04 January 2019
DAS members will not want to miss this brilliantly curated and well displayed celebration of `one of the last Pre-Raphaelites’ Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98). The show (until February 24 2019)...
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Thursday 01 June 2023
A huge Victorian theatre in north London reopened earlier this month. It is an amazing transformation from when it was visited by the DAS four years...
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Tuesday 04 December 2018
This study of post-war British culture and art surveys a wide range of visual media and selects key moments in the 1950s for in-depth investigation. The work is divided into three parts – ‘The...
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Wednesday 28 November 2018
The Victoria and Albert Museum seeks volunteers to help maintain the library and research files in the Furniture and Woodwork section. The museum needs help in rationalising its research papers,...
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Thursday 01 November 2018
The Decorative Arts Society’s visit to Hungary in May 2018 demonstrated the diverse aesthetic and theoretical interests of Hungarian artists and makers from the 19th to early 20th centuries. One...
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