UK EVENT
Tue 20 Nov 2018
Since its formation in 2009, the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, has been housed in the former Middlesex Guildhall in Parliament Square, designed by Scottish architect James Gibson...
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Sat 10 Nov 2018
The AGM will be held again at Sotheby’s Institute of Art by kind permission of the Director. The formal proceedings will be followed by brief talks on current museum developments or decorative...
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Fri 26 Oct 2018
A DAS trip to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Fife is being developed. Among its highlights will be a tour of private residence Windyhill designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Windyhill Collection...
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Thu 18 Oct 2018
Sarah Hardy (De Morgan Foundation) will host our visit to the highly successful UK touring exhibition Sublime Symmetry: The Mathematics Behind De Morgan’s Ceramic Design being held at the...
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Mon 24 Sep 2018
Harriet Landseer will lead a visit to the former main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Trieste, to include Archduke Maximilian of Austria's spectacular palace and gardens of Miramare, and then...
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Tue 11 Sep 2018
We are privileged to have private access to Kelmscott Manor, the inspirational Cotswold retreat of William Morris and his family, friends and colleagues, on one of its closed days. Morris first...
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Wed 05 Sep 2018
Haslemere Educational Museum can display only a fraction of the 600 traditional craft items, chiefly from Scandinavia and Central Europe, collected by the Rev. Gerald S. Davies around 1885–1908....
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Thu 30 Aug 2018
In 1958 Jim and Helen Ede transformed four tumble-down cottages in Cambridge into a visionary home/art gallery where Ede held 'open house' for students every afternoon during term time,...
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Thu 28 Jun 2018
A unique opportunity to visit a trio of exceptional buildings, all within two minutes of each other and being specially opened for the DAS. Built between 1877 and 1882 in distinct styles to serve...
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Wed 27 Jun 2018
DAS members will have a privileged private view of printed material and manuscripts relating to William Morris in the Society’s main Library. Heather Rowland, Head of Library & Collections, will...
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