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  These are a few of our favourite things…

  Gitta Gschwendtner, Exhibition Designer Favourite object: Bundle of madder roots “I love the ordered chaos…
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  Fabric of frenzy

  it all: the remains of a breakfast of coffee, half a croissant and some jelly babies, and a lunch of chips…
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  Paper Playscapes

  She has also designed the installation game, based on the traditional Music Chairs.…
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  “A-well-a, everybody’s heard about the bird, Bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word …”

  Last week, my LGBTQ Co-Chair Zorian Clayton and I had the pleasure of meeting up with Bird la Bird and…
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  Installing the period rooms

  were given to the V&A with the room and will be on display in the Europe galleries (For example, this chair…
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  ‘Mde de Maupeou prays Mr Barbier to give the courier thirteen aunes of cloth … ‘

  Collectively, the letters have what Schoeser Boyce terms ‘great charm of unobserved conversation’.…
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  Getting To The Point Of Medieval Shoes

  In this leaf from an antiphoner (a type of choir book), you can see a bare toe peeping out from the bottom…
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  Back home in the gallery

  gallery is officially launched alongside the exhibition in December, there will be 20 houses which chart…
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  There are many worse places in which to spend an idle day

  The furniture of this is modern, including a Chesterfield and easy chair and tiny occasional tables,…
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  Handshake with Helsinki: An encounter with Alvar and Aino Aalto

  Many of Artek’s later creations, including one of the era’s most innovative chair designs (Model No.…
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  The Brussels Ommegang

  The fifth float features the Tree of Jesse, with nine daring individuals perched high up in scooped chairs…
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  The Curious Collage: an 18th century dolls’ house

  (C) Victoria & Albert Museum, London A carved chair with unusual solid back, from W.42-1922.…
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  Fashion, the 84th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, 2-3 July 2015

  Historic Royal Palaces & BBC), Valerie Steele (The Museum, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York), Chris…
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  Alfred Percival Maudslay and the V&A

  The main account of their travels is written by Maudslay’s wife Anne, but her husband chips in every…
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  Pride of Place

  women’s suffrage movement and theatre director, who lived there in a ménage à trois with the dramatist Chris…
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  What to wear when you don’t have a halo

  her lamb) has beautiful flowing hair, a shimmering halo, and a heavenly crown. 278:3, cutting from a choir…
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  Clothworkers’ Object Study Day, 27th May

  rathas, shine-like chariots used for festivals, and ancient Indian symbols – the tree of life and the chakra…
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  Easter Egg Hunt in the Europe Galleries

  They are performing a farandole, which was a chain dance that originated in Provence. …
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  The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day No.57

  art gallery on Brewer Street and when I shot the shop there was an exhibition of recently deceased Chris…
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  Trench coats: from real mud to Nostalgia of Mud

  T.87-1959 Greatcoat Worsted overcoat, England, ca. 1800 England Ca. 1800 Worsted, gilt metal chain, hand-stitched…