Features

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  Introducing Mary Quant

  Once technically proficient, she initiated a hand-to-mouth production cycle: the day's sales at Bazaar…
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  Beatrix Potter's inspirations

  In 1903, while staying at Fawe Park, Potter sketched on the shore of Derwentwater near to the house.…
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  A history of digital design: Part 2 – Expanding worlds

  In short, it all started with the Magnavox Odyssey. Created in 1972 by a team led by Ralph H.…
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  The Christmas cracker

  Bonbons proved a hit at Christmas time and to encourage year-round sales, Smith added a small love motto…
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  The real Alice in Wonderland

  famous illustration of Alice by John Tenniel would depart strongly from Liddell's brunette bob and short…

What's On

• Past Event

  Workshop: Weaving Stories (18 - 24 years)

  V&A South Kensington

  Kurdish mixed media artist, carpet designer and weaver Shorsh…
• Past Event

  Help Refugees: Our Shared Future

  Salah El Nagar, Poet, writer, teacher from Egypt Taban Shoresh, Founder of Lotus flower NGO, from Kurdistan…

From the Blog

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  V&A Illustration Awards 2024 – the winners!

  The inner sleeve shows a woman inside the same house, which now glows orange in the twilight.…
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  Homecoming – Exhibition of Asante Gold Regalia at Manhiya Palace Museum, Kumasi

  The V&A acquired 13 pieces at the sale and bought two further items within a decade, one section of sheet-gold…
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  Quilting heritage

  In 2017 I went on to design costumes and do styling for TV commercials as well as several short films…
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  A sculpture merging Jamaican culture with utility

  intellectuals and activists who came to be known as the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) he also wrote short…
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  From One Palace to Another – the Torrijos ceiling at the Château Villandry

  Esos Mundos, the article that effectively advertised the contents of the palace when it came up for sale…