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  A Moving Experience: Olympia to the Olympic Park

  project: 3,500 pair of shoes, 6,271 drawers of textiles and clothing, 5,476 items of hanging dress, 1500 chairs…
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  Elm, wellness and play

  On the top floor of the museum, floating among the many chairs on display in the V&A’s furniture gallery…
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  An experiment in the forest

  It is a technique best known for producing Windsor Chairs, which are characterised by their solid wood…
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  Make Good: Rethinking material futures

  For this craft, chairs are made without power tools from freshly-cut wood close to where a tree is felled…
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  School 21: “Why should I care about a chair?”

  in the hope that it might inspire them to think of the importance that chairs could hold.…
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  School 21: “Why should I care about a chair?” Part 2

  people, who were asked by the V&A East team to create an object that responds to the vast array of chairs…
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  Building bridges: models creating confidence in engineering innovation

  engineer Benjamin Baker, his colleague John Fowler and their team of engineers used three men, two chairs…
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  V&A Innovate receives Art Explora – Académie des Beaux-Arts award

  present their design idea to the judging panelStill from ‘Sitting on Recycling’ animation introducing chairs…
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  Chippendale and Sheraton: rediscovering rare silent films

  Confusingly, in the film Harris bids for a set of chairs rather than the cabinet, an error which probably…
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  Silent open-source ridges and the constant smoothness of guns

  Why do gadgets, instruments, buildings, chairs, heights, weights, surfaces, materials work for men and…
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  Take a Seat at the Royal Albert Hall – Courtesy of Sir Henry Cole

  The balcony, not always in use as a seated viewing station, featured foldable chairs (fig. 2), not unusual…
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  Behind the scenes: decanting the 20th Century Gallery

  packed in crates, temporary wooden frames are built to protect outsize furniture and bubble wrap envelop chairs…
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  Many hands making light of decant work: volunteers prepare upholstery textiles for public facing storage

  with textile components including seat furniture, desks, worktables, cabinets, fire screens, and sedan chairs…
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  Making the V&A’s collections more discoverable online

  Take for example the V&A’s vast collection of chairs, many with the self-explanatory (but not so distinguishable…
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  Pandemic Objects: Chairs

  Chairs will likely not go down in the history of Covid-19 as much to talk about. Their agency in solving a global pandemic is, of course, minimal. But in their own small way – as...
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  Congratulations to Conservation Science team

  Lucia also chairs the Heritage Science Expert Working Group under the Analytical Methods Committee and…
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  #LetsMakeWednesdays – take a seat!

  Have you ever thought about how many different types of chairs there are?…
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  The empty streets (and parks) of Eugène Atget​

  There are hints of life, empty chairs, tire tracks in well-worn dirt roads, even a solid example of a…
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  Painting the Royal Albert Hall Red

  commented: ‘The amphitheatre and area are covered in with cocoanut matting, dyed to a dull red, and the chairs…
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  Leonie Bell announced as new Director of V&A Dundee

  She also chairs the Advisory Board of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art and is a trustee of…