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  Conservation of a Japanese palanquin

  Known as a 'norimono' in Japanese, meaning 'thing to ride', this box-like enclosed chair would have carried…
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  'Britain Can Make It'

  Ernest Race developed the concept of aluminium furniture with his BA-3 chair.…
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  Chinoiserie – an introduction

  The designs in Chippendale's influential book were often imitated and adapted by other chair-makers,…
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  100 years of V&A exhibition posters

  While some exhibitions now seem charmingly niche – Corn Dollies, Canal Boat Art, The Rural Chair – others…
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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wax office furniture echoed the design of the company's headquarters, with the circular form of the chair…
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  Make your own: embroidered zipped pouch

  in Britain in the late 17th- and early 18th centuries, decorating hard-wearing items such as shoes, chair…
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  The sophisticated Modern home

  architects of the day to produce what have become design classics, such as Marcel Breuer's famous Long Chair…
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  Arts and Crafts: design for the home

  The designers also learned skills themselves: Gimson was taught by a 'chair bodger' to make traditional…
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  Streamlined design: speed becomes style

  Pencil sharpeners, fans, hats, chairs, irons and even meat slicers were formed as if they had been put…
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  Beatrix Potter's inspirations

  Potter restored Hill Top with an oak court cupboard, "a pretty dresser and some old-fashioned chairs;…
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  At the press of a button: A V&A history of 3D printing

  The Materialized Sketch chair by Front Design is an experiment in both computer aided design (CAD) and…
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  V&A Secret Seekers

  wanted to call it the 'Albert Museum' to give full credit to my husband and his vision” Director's Chair…
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  'My Years and Seasons' by Pierre Balmain

  (a textile finishing treatment which improves strength) and I had had reproductions of 18th-century chairs…
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  La Biennale di Venezia 2019

  Sir Roy Strong, then Director of the Museum, is shown chairing a meeting in the Boardroom, dominated…
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  Introducing Design 1900 – Now

  The Flax chair by Christien Meindertsma is produced from a board made from flax and bioresin and is biodegradable…
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  Patric D. Prince: digital art visionary

  In 1986, the year following the publication of her MA thesis, Prince chaired the art show SIGGRAPH 1986…
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  A history of collecting digital objects at the V&A

  In 1999, a paper print of a computer aided design (CAD) drawing for Tom Dixon's Pylon Chair was acquired…
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  John Tenniel – an introduction

  literature, science, society and art, including authors Bram Stoker and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and was chaired…
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  Modernist architecture: the Bauhaus and beyond

  Furnishings created there, such as Marcel Breuer's tubular-steel Club Chair and Marianne Brandt's light…
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  Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert and their collection

  Sat in the office chair was a wax figure of the collector himself, clad in his favourite attire: the…