UK EVENT
Thu 10 Oct 2019
186 Gwydir Street is a small terraced house bought in 1886 by David Parr, a working-class ‘artist-decorator’ employed by F.R. Leach & Sons. They are known for their work in Cambridge on Queens’...
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Wed 02 Oct 2019
The house was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the painter, Harold Squire, in 1920 and completed in 1923. Augustus John was a guest there in the late 1930s and it was bought by Edward Le...
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FOREIGN STUDY TOUR
Mon 23 Sep 2019
Highlights around Dublin will include a visit to Lambay Island to see the house designed by Edwin Lutyens for the Baring family (weather-dependent), Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park (donated to the...
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Tue 17 Sep 2019
Along with its superb group of works by Ernest Gimson and other Arts & Crafts designers, Leicester Museum has a collection of folk art from around the world gathered by Harry Peach, founder of...
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Wed 11 Sep 2019
Christ’s Hospital school and its distinctive uniform date back to 1552. The current campus was designed by Aston Webb and E. Ingress Bell at the turn of the 20th century and Brangwyn painted 16...
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Tue 02 Jul 2019
Keeper of Costume Grace Evans and Curator Emma Warren will lead a study day focusing on the Olive Matthews Collection of Dress at Chertsey Museum, a treasure trove of dress and local history...
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Thu 27 Jun 2019
186 Gwydir Street is a small terraced house bought in 1886 by David Parr, a working-class ‘artist-decorator’ employed by F.R. Leach & Sons. They are known for their work in Cambridge on Queens’...
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Wed 19 Jun 2019
Historian and author Alec Forshaw will lead a walk around the historic area of Smithfield in central London, looking at the splendid late 19th- and early 20th-century market buildings and...
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Wed 12 Jun 2019
A special visit to Le Bois des Moutiers, the 1898 masterpiece created by Edwin Lutyens at Varengeville-sur-Mer for the banker Guillaume Mallet will be the centrepiece of this two-day programme....
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Tue 14 May 2019
Dr Leon Lock is planning a wide-ranging tour, which will study important Deutscher Werkbund, Jugendstil and Modernist sites and collections in Hagen, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. It starts...
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