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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Monday 22 October 2018
One grant has been awarded to Lotherton Hall, part of Leeds Museums and Galleries, for the conservation of the table designed c. 1867 by William Burges (1827-1881) for his own house in Buckingham...
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Friday 05 October 2018
A photographic exhibition in Hammersmith from 30th August 2018 to 1st April 2019 features the work of local eminent Victorians William Morris and Emery Walker, who both lived and worked in the...
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Monday 24 September 2018
Gerhard Munthe was one of a group of artists and designers seeking to create a new national body of art in late 19th-century Norway. This is the first significant account of his work to be...
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