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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UK EVENT
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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Tue 09 Nov 2021
A visit to a private collection which includes a Godwin sideboard and works by William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Burne-Jones, Rossetti and Northern Light Scandinavian paintings, in an early...
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Sat 06 Nov 2021
The AGM will be held in a new venue this year. The Chapel at 83 Margaret Street was designed by G.E. Street in 1860 with stained glass by Clayton & Bell, a fresco behind the altar by J.R....
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Tue 02 Nov 2021
A visit with curator Roisin Inglesby to the exhibition Young Poland: The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement 1890–1918, which is the first outside Poland to explore this crucial period in Polish (and...
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