UK EVENT
Wed 09 May 2018
After refreshments, members will preview the forthcoming Art & Design Sale at Cheffins auction house, showcasing decorative art from the 1860s to the present, with talks from specialist valuers...
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Thu 26 Apr 2018
The author and historian Alec Forshaw will lead a walk through south-east Bloomsbury to visit a concentration of buildings and locations closely associated with William Morris, touching also on...
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Wed 11 Apr 2018
The visit begins with a guided tour of the richly decorated interior of the church of St Barnabas (Thomas Cundy, 1847–50). We then move to the new premises nearby of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler...
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Thu 22 Mar 2018
Waddesdon Manor was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874–85 to display his art collection. Opened to the public in 1959, the Manor is now managed by the Rothschild Foundation on behalf...
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Thu 15 Mar 2018
Opened in 1964, many consider the Royal College of Physicians building next to Regent’s Park to be Denys Lasdun’s masterpiece, its importance as a modernist building recognised by its Grade I...
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Wed 28 Feb 2018
The Museum tells the story of Central St Martins’ rich history and has been collecting work by staff and students since the late 19th century in areas from fashion and textiles to ceramics,...
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Wed 21 Feb 2018
Arts and Crafts designer Archibald Knox’s work for Liberty is well known; less so are his years teaching at Kingston upon Thames. Following his sudden departure in 1912, student Denise Tuckfield...
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Wed 31 Jan 2018
The museum at Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden holds a huge stock of metalwork, textiles, ceramics and furniture connected with the development of freemasonry in Britain and its Empire,...
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Tue 23 Jan 2018
Although tens of thousands of middle-class terraced houses were built in London at the end of the 19th century, very few have retained their character and fittings through changes in fashion and...
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Tue 14 Nov 2017
In two groups we will visit the Fashion and Textile Museum for a tour of the exhibition on Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989), considered a pioneer of modern fashion photography; and London...
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