Thursday 23 April 2020
Late last year the DAS pledged, for us, an exceptional grant of £10,000 to save the export-stopped Martinware Crab for The Box, Plymouth and the nation. The DAS was the first organisation to...
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Tuesday 14 April 2020
This elegantly written, beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated book brings to the fore Ernest Gimson (1864–1919), a central figure in the Arts & Crafts movement. The authors have brought...
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Monday 24 February 2020
The Decorative Arts Society recently awarded a museums acquisition grant of £800 to Leeds Museums and Galleries for three pieces of jewellery by Jenny Llewellyn. She was brought up in Leeds and...
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Wednesday 05 February 2020
In this first biography of Mary Seton Watts (1849–1938), Hilary Calvert and Louise Boreham give a real insight into the running of the two art potteries where she translated her ideals into craft...
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Thursday 23 January 2020
From the British perspective, the two titles under review, along with Fiona MacCarthy’s biography of Walter Gropius, are the most noteworthy of the flood of books published to celebrate the 100th...
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Friday 03 January 2020
Although many of Robin Wyatt’s family were in the military, he opted for a career in architecture. During his three years as a student at the Architectural Association in the 1960s; modernism was...
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Thursday 19 December 2019
The current exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris pays tribute to a leading figure of 20th Century design, Charlotte Perriand. Perriand (1903-1999) was an architect and interior...
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Thursday 28 November 2019
Although Frank Brangwyn RA (1867–1956) was a talented polymath, equally capable of producing paintings, murals, lithographs, etchings and woodcuts, and designs for stained glass, furniture, glass...
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Monday 04 November 2019
The Decorative Arts Society is delighted to announce two Collections Access Grants. One grant of £5000 has been awarded to Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead to create a permanent display of...
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Wednesday 30 October 2019
Two programmes at Bard Graduate Center (BGC) in New York are currently accepting applications for the 2020-21 academic year. Designed to further the institution’s goal of promoting research in...
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