UK EVENT
Wed 02 Nov 2022
Robert Drake will lead another afternoon tour to three churches, this time in the City and East End fringes. All have much decorative arts interest. The Dutch Church in Austin Friars was rebuilt...
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Wed 19 Oct 2022
Kelmscott Manor will be well known to DAS members as the country retreat from 1871 to 1896 of William Morris, who saw it as his spiritual home. It has been owned by the Society of Antiquaries for...
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ZOOM LECTURE
Sun 16 Oct 2022
Zoom lecture by Clive Edwards, at 6.00 pm (London). Collinson & Lock are recognised as a classic producer of later 19th-century art furniture. This talk will look at two aspects of the...
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Thu 13 Oct 2022
Opened in 1873, the Cast Courts display copies of some of the world’s most significant works of art reproduced in plaster, electrotype, photography and digital media. Michelangelo’s David,...
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Sat 16 Jul 2022
Frinton-on-Sea was one of the early 20th-century forerunners in seaside town development and still offers a memorable picture of English domestic architecture of the first half of the last...
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Tue 28 Jun 2022
Charles Jencks (1939–2019), architect, landscape designer, architectural theorist, critic and promoter of postmodernism, totally remodelled his 19th Century family house between 1979 and 1984...
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Tue 21 Jun 2022
This all-day visit to Oxford will begin at the Ashmolean Museum, where curator Matthew Winterbottom will show us the 19th Century galleries, including the acquisitions from the Albert Dawson...
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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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