9493 results for 'chairs' across All Categories

From the Blog

• Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: Roses

  were – as with so many things about Covid – knock-on effects elsewhere at the other end of the supply chain…
• Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: Flour and Yeast

  the arrangements seem to be a bit makeshift, particularly the way the dough trough is supported by a chair…
• Blog Post

  V&A Picture Books and Photography: 1925 – 1938

  Plate from Picture Book of English Embroidery IV; Chair Seats and Chair Backs. (1929) During my research…
• Blog Post

  Friday Late: ‘Bring Me To Heal’

  Before this project I was working with chain mail which I’d never done before, and learnt how to do on…
• Blog Post

  #LetsMakeWednesdays – Women Artists in the V&A Collection

  This could be a dark floor, the back of a chair, a cardboard box or a cupboard.  …
• Blog Post

  Our new Photography Centre is now open

  Highlights include talks by leading photographers Mary McCartney, Rankin and Chris Levine; the premiere…
• Blog Post

  V&A Illustration Awards: In Conversation with Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Book Illustration Award 2020)

  My most recent for her was a cover and chapter headings for Charis in the World of Wonders, published…
• Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: Beards

  As Joel’s masked face greeted me and as he ushered me into the barber’s chair, I’d have been forgiven…
• Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: Photograph

  Personal pandemic photography charts a more intimate temporal response to the passage of the disease.…
• Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: Student Housing

  Starkey, UK, 1997 (V&A: E.491-1998) Credit Hannah Starkey/Victoria and Albert Museum Seminar Chair…
• Blog Post

  Mutton Bone Doll

  In this he gave accounts of the lucky charms that soldiers in the First World War took with them.…
• Blog Post

  #LetsMakeWednesdays – redesign everyday objects!

  Maybe the chair that you do your schoolwork in isn’t very comfortable.…
• Blog Post

  Terence Conran – A V&A perspective

  Design for a dining room, drawn by Chris Williams for Conran Associates, 1976. Mus. no.…
• Blog Post

  Restoration of the Master’s Chair of the Joiners & Ceilers Company

  by Clunie Fretton, Ornamental & Historic WoodcarverThe restoration of the Master’s Chair of the Joiners & Ceilers Company posed an exciting challenge (Figure 1). The chair, on long-term loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, was...
• Blog Post

  Russian toy bears in hibernation at the V&A Museum of Childhood

  The USA did not succumb to Misha’s charms, however, and boycotted the games over the Soviet-Afghan war…
• Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: Live Music

  Across the world we are joining virtual choirs – and finding new ways to share performance.…
• Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: Exams and Exercise Books

  An unassuming work, the figure is seated in a light chair, wearing a long full peignoir, arms folded…
• Blog Post

  Welcome back to South Kensington

  Our curators have been judiciously selecting objects that chart the design response to COVID-19 in our…
• Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: Home-Made Face Masks

  The increase of face mask wearing has put severe pressure on supply chains, and in response to the resulting…
• Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: Finger Oximeter

  finger oximeter seemed to me to go beyond home monitoring to the point where it served almost as a magic charm…