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  Chinese blue-and-white ceramics

  Discover some of the most iconic and enduring objects in the history of Chinese ceramics
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  The influence of East Asian lacquer on European furniture

  Find out how the desire for Asian lacquer influenced Western furniture for centuries
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  Chinoiserie – an introduction

  pagodas, fabulous birds and figures in Chinese clothes.…
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  Arts and Crafts: design for the home

  This meant designing furniture, metalwork pieces, ceramics and other objects specially to fit a new,…
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  William Kent: designing Georgian Britain

  The heavy, gilded style of furniture and interiors that took his name – 'Kentian' – was largely inspired…
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  Lucienne Day – an introduction

  Along with her husband, furniture-designer Robin Day, she promoted modern living and embodied the image…
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  Dealing and dealers: the East Asia collection

  When objects from China, Korea and Japan were transferred from other departments to form the East Asia…
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  Embroidery styles: an illustrated guide

  Traditionally, many bold shades of wool were used to create three-dimensional effects that made striking furniture…
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  Curtis Moffat: life and work

  The company sold Modernist furniture by leading designers, alongside an eclectic range of African sculpture…
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  The Baroque style

  Its global spread saw Chinese carvers working in Indonesia, French silversmiths in Sweden and Italian…
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  Lucienne Day's silk mosaics

  Like her husband, the furniture designer Robin Day, she believed in high-volume industrial production…
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  Owen Jones and the Grammar of Ornament

  that was suitable for the modern world, one which could be applied equally to wallpapers, textiles, furniture…
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  An A – Z of gemstones

  Wells' collection of Chinese jade and other hardstone objects from South Asia were donated to the V&…
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  Philip Webb: a new vision for domestic space

  included hangings and embroideries by William and Jane Morris, tiles and murals by Edward Burne-Jones, and furniture…
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  The Chandigarh Chair

  and Chief Architect of Punjab.…
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  Space-Age chairs

  future, to the capabilities of new materials – stretch fabric and moulded plastic – provoking futuristic furniture…
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  An introduction to the Aesthetic Movement

  ornament and harmonious colour, these designers aimed to produce chairs and tables worthy of the name 'Art Furniture…
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  William Morris and historical design

  Tiles were the least expensive of Morris's firm's products and were used to decorate fireplaces, furniture…
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  Pattern design after William Morris

  These progressive interiors combined plain, often rustic-style furniture with highly decorative curtains…
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  Arts and Crafts: beyond the UK

  belief in forward-looking aesthetics, the Wiener Werkstätte produced benchmark designs in metalwork, furniture…