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ONLINE SYMPOSIUM DEDICATED TO THE WORK OF ISOKON LTD

Wednesday 12 April 2023

The Yale Center for British Art is holding a free online symposium about Isokon Ltd on Thursday and Friday, April 20-21, 2023. An hour-long keynote conversation on April 20 will be followed by a...

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THE EMPRESS EUGÉNIE IN ENGLAND: ART, ARCHITECTURE, COLLECTING

Monday 27 March 2023

After the fall of the Second Empire in 1870, Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie lived with their son in exile in southern England. This book focuses on Farnborough Hill from 1880, the Empress’s...

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MARTIN BROTHERS CERAMICS DISPLAY IN THE COTSWOLDS

Wednesday 01 March 2023

A free exhibition of Robert Wallace Martin and the Martin Brothers ceramics to celebrate 150 years since the opening of the pottery and 100 years since the death of Robert Wallace opens soon at...

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ART DECO FRANCE – NORTH AMERICA AT CITE DE L’ARCHITECTURE PARIS

Thursday 02 February 2023

An exhibition which shows the influence of France in the 1920s over the architecture, decor, lifestyle, and taste of North America is now showing at La Cité Architecture & Heritage Centre in...

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EVELYN & WILLIAM DE MORGAN: A MARRIAGE OF ARTS & CRAFTS

Thursday 12 January 2023

This handsome volume accompanies an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum that will travel to Sacramento and St Petersburg, Florida. It comprises a dozen essays by independent art historians and...

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THE INSCRIPTIONS OF RALPH BEYER

Wednesday 21 December 2022

The inscriptional letter cutter Ralph Beyer (1921–2008) found a way between the craft-based historicism and technological modernism to establish an individual style of lettering. Beyer is now the...

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RICHARD BATTERHAM: STUDIO POTTER

Wednesday 30 November 2022

Often called ‘the potter’s potter’, Richard Batterham has been held in high esteem by fellow potters and collectors alike, but this is the first monograph on his life and work. At Bryanston...

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KÓNYA GYULÁNÉ SCHÉFER TERÉZ AND HER PEASANT SEWING COLLECTION

Monday 31 October 2022

This book chronicles the life, work and legacy of one of the foremost artists of traditional stitched textile patterns in Hungarian Transylvania, Teréz Schéfer (1884–1971). (In the Hungarian...

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MAJOLICA MANIA: TRANSATLANTIC POTTERY IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES, 1850–1915

Tuesday 04 October 2022

Accompanying an exhibition of the same name, this three-volume publication is a weighty tome with over 1000 pages and 1200 illustrations. More than a dozen authors contribute to an authoritative...

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WILLIAM MORRIS

Wednesday 21 September 2022

William Morris’s creativity in the decorative arts was celebrated in the V&A’s 1996 exhibition, showcasing his activities as painter, stained-glass artist, interior decorator, furniture designer,...

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