UK EVENT
Fri 20 May 2022
A group has now been confirmed for this tour led by Tony Peart. Please contact David Wurtzel, Chairman of the Events sub-committee, if you wish to be on the waiting list in case of cancellations....
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Tue 10 May 2022
In celebration of the International Year of Glass 2022, there is an opportunity to visit in central London an outstanding collection amassed over 40 years, including modern and studio glass, much...
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Tue 26 Apr 2022
Robin Wyatt’s walk will take us past the homes and studios of some of the numerous practitioners of fine and decorative arts who have lived and worked in Chelsea, including Rossetti, Sickert and...
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ZOOM LECTURE
Sun 24 Apr 2022
Zoom lecture by Andrew Dolkart, at 6.00 pm (London). Beginning in 1908, the English émigré architect Frederick Sterner changed the character of New York’s ubiquitous but obsolete brick and...
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Wed 06 Apr 2022
Dr Helen Walsh, curator of ceramic art at York Museums Trust will give us a tour of the exhibition The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony about the collection of W.A. Ismay, the UK’s most prolific collector...
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FOREIGN STUDY TOUR
Mon 07 Mar 2022
A group has now been confirmed for this tour led by Harriet Landseer. Please contact David Wurtzel, Chairman of the Events sub-committee, if you wish to be on the waiting list in case of...
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Thu 24 Feb 2022
Robert Drake will lead an afternoon tour to three churches, all grade 2* with much decorative arts interest: St Mary, Cadogan Street, with fittings by J.F. Bentley (who is the subject of a recent...
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Sun 20 Feb 2022
Zoom lecture by Helen Walsh, at 6.00 pm (London). W.A. Ismay MBE (1910–2001) assembled one of the UK’s largest collections of post-war British studio pottery and lived surrounded by his family of...
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Tue 07 Dec 2021
Join a small group to learn about Venetian 20th-century glass making, particularly the Venini factory and its history and influences, Americans who went to work with Venini from the 1950s onwards...
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Sun 21 Nov 2021
Zoom lecture by Claire Blakey, at 6.00 pm (London). From about 1850 the Renaissance Revival inspired the design of both architecture and the decorative arts in Britain, prompting Minton & Co. to...
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