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  Material choices – what are things made from and why?

  of a modest unglazed clay teapot (in this case a replica of one that once belong to a 17th- century Chinese…
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  Pandemic Objects: Toilet Roll

  However, one Chinese visitor to Britain in the 1860s was appalled to find no purpose-made toilet paper…
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  A Tour of China’s Design Cities: Beijing

  Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) 中央美术学院 The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and the Chinese Academy…
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  Global design histories and contemporary art practice: Lubna Chowdhary in residence at the V&A

  the sixteenth century, the British East India Company and British colonial encroachment on Indian and Chinese…
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  A Tour of China’s Design Cities: Shanghai

  Shanghai is the largest Chinese city by population (and the largest city proper by population in the…
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  V&A joins China Merchants Shekou Holdings (CMSK) in launching Design Society

  the V&A Gallery and other exhibition halls are located, the Guanfu Museum, presenting a collection of Chinese…
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  V&A joins China Merchants Shekou Holdings (CMSK) in launching Design Society

  the objects in the gallery will be drawn from the V&A’s major collections of fashion, photography, furniture…
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  What V&A objects have you been searching for in 2017?

  Dress William Morris Fashion Embroidery Corset Wallpaper Balenciaga Chair Toys Jewellery Shoes Art Deco Furniture…
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  Introducing Ross Atkin – Design Society’s first Maker in Residence

  bodies, charities and medium sized UK manufacturing companies creating products like intelligent street furniture…
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  The V&A Shekou Project: highlights from 2016

  Green, Learning Manager of the Shekou project, organised discussion groups with designers, teachers of Chinese…
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  Garnitures: What a difference a vase makes!

  Vase sets, also known as ‘garnitures’ (ie. to garnish or adorn furniture or interiors), come to life…
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  From Shanghai to Sevenoaks – the Denton Welch bequest

  were enriched with shells, ammonites, coral and feldspar crystal and the interior was decorated with Chinese…
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  Golden Glitter: Recreating the aventurine speckles on the Dresden Cabinet

  Today’s post comes from Tristram Bainbridge, Furniture Conservator, who has been working on this eye-catching…
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  Object Pitch Day 3 – 16 September 2014

  OP3/07 Kate Hay, assistant curator in the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion Department, continued the “…
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  Meet the Shekou Team!

  Since the groundbreaking ceremony, Brendan Cormier joined the V&A Furniture, Textile and Fashion department…
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  A Tour of China’s Design Cities: Hong Kong

  noticed any of them – and in the atrium café we immediately spot and inspect several pieces of designer furniture…
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  There are so many shoes

  the V&A Collection; that includes footwear – shoes, sandals and boots – from the Asian department and Furniture…
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  A year at the Clothworkers’ Centre

  Sarah Westbury, Furniture, Textiles and Fashion Department The V&A has an incredible collection of textiles…
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  Conservation and Mounting of a Chinese Export Wallpaper Panel

  Paper Conservators at the V&A are responsible for everything from minute portrait miniature paintings to enormous printed posters. Historic wallpapers also come under their remit, and the V&A has an extremely fine collection. As part...
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  Political or inspirational

  The skill of the Chinese weavers and embroiderers was out of this world.…