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  From Taming to Wildness: Fashion, Nature, Systems Change

  It is co-chaired by Marta Ajmar, Sara Kassam and Zofia Trafas White.…
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  Small changes, big impact – How we transformed the Raphael Court

  different paint manufacturers, initially as painted samples in our studio, since the thumbnail-sized paint chips…
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  Kehinde Wiley’s ‘Portrait of Melissa Thompson’ enters the V&A Collection

  In the painting Melissa Thompson sits in a Regency-style chair in front of a bold, yellow backdrop of…
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  Fragmented Illuminations

  century and throughout the nineteenth century, numerous medieval and renaissance manuscripts – especially choir…
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  Pandemic Objects: The Balcony

  We do sit outside on compact garden furniture or the occasional deck chair, but most urban balconies…
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  The Conservation of Marie Antoinette’s Chair

  Zoe Allen, Senior Gilded Furniture and Frames Conservator Phil James, Technician, Technical Services This painted and gilded carved walnut chair is part of a suite of furniture made for Marie Antoinette’s Cabinet Particulier in the...
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  Learning from nature: from ecosystem thinking to climate action at the museum

  It is co-chaired by Marta Ajmar, Sara Kassam and Zofia Trafas White Further reading Diane…
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  Pandemic Objects: Dating Apps

  Hinge, Happn or Plenty of Fish decided to launch in-app video calls, camera icons popped-up in the chats…
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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…
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  Productive distraction and the joy of looking back: Reflections on volunteering on the ‘Design: 1900 – Now’ project

  designer claimed them to be somehow universally applicable to everyone [gestures to her ‘ergonomic’ office chair…
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  Our Hackney Empire

  thousands of objects, archives and live recordings from the V&A’s theatre and performance collection, which chart…
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  Installing ‘Glastonbury: Land and Legend’ – Day 3

  These distinctive blue chairs, the iconic image of PQ2015, greeted us from the gallery entrance.…
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  Pandemic Objects: Barricade

  Discarded mattresses, chairs, unwanted books and toys.…
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  Pandemic Objects: Tote Bag

  final entry gates, often hung directly around their necks as hands and arms are occupied with tents, chairs…
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  The V&A and Glastonbury Festival – Sounds bizarre?

  search the V&A’s collections for ‘Glastonbury’ you get an earthenware bowl, a woollen coat, a pair of chairs…
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  Exercise your imagination with Kristi Minchin

  Take a chair, for example.…
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  Pandemic Objects: Radio

  Although serious in content, his ‘Fireside Chats’ were characterised by an informal, conversational style…
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  The Bike Bloc Sound Swarm

  recomposed to also listen to and amplify the voices of other objects around it, including sounds and chants…
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  Pandemic Objects: Coffee House

  The coffee chains that dominate the British high street today seem a far cry from their mid-seventeenth-century…
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  Conservation of the Cambridge Censer

  produce the scented smoke, and in order to spread the scent the censer would have been swung from the chain…