UK EVENT
Thu 19 Oct 2023
A visit to a private collection on the Holly Village estate built by Cubitt in High Victorian Gothic style. The collection includes pieces by Pugin, Violet-le-Duc and Sir Hubert von Herkomer as...
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Fri 13 Oct 2023
Pevsner described Hampstead Garden Suburb as ‘that most nearly perfect example of the English invention and speciality, the Garden Suburb’. Kate and Martin Webster, long-standing Suburb...
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Fri 29 Sep 2023
The visit will begin with a talk on the furniture in Speaker’s House from Pugin’s house, The Grange in Ramsgate, and on the Minton ceramics. There will follow a tour of Speaker’s House with...
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Mon 18 Sep 2023
This 5-day tour will give members the opportunity to explore the treasures of Krakow, which was the heart of the Young Poland movement, and to see the context of the objects which were loaned to...
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Thu 14 Sep 2023
A day visit to see the third Gloucestershire Guild Crafts Alive Festival at Rodmarton Manor and for a tour of the iconic early 20th-century Arts & Crafts country house, designed by Ernest...
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Thu 20 Jul 2023
First, we will see an important Voysey house of 1903, with its original oak panelling, fireplaces and staircase. We will then visit a private collection of Secession ware (produced by Minton),...
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Fri 14 Jul 2023
The DAS has been invited for a special tour of Ascott House, and in particular over 100 objects from Victoria, Lady de Rothschild’s contemporary craft collection which will be on view prior to...
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Wed 28 Jun 2023
DAS members will have a private view with our Chairman, Martin Levy, of this outstanding collection of furniture, sculpture, pictures and other works of art reflecting the Wainwrights’ collecting...
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Sat 03 Jun 2023
A visit to a private collection in a late-Victorian house with a substantial collection of Moyr Smith ceramics, watercolours, posters and rare books. There is a specialism in Oscar Wilde and his...
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Wed 24 May 2023
Dr Rory O’Donnell FSA, a published expert on Catholic church architecture, will lead this visit to Westminster Cathedral (1895–1910), the masterwork of the architect J.F. Bentley, in his...
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