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An Object Lesson with Malcolm Baker Malcolm Baker in the White Drawing Room at Waddesdon Manor. Photograph by Katherine Elliott, 2014 As we walked from the beautiful red ante chamber to the white...
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History of Design: The New Term Has Started!
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A Point of Departure
This post was written by Joanna Weddell, AHRC CDA Disseminating Design, Centre for Research and Development, University of Brighton and Research Department, the Victoria & Albert Museum. This post...
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All work and no play makes the museum a dull place?
by Grace Bremner “[W]e learn by interacting with bits of the world even when our words for how these bits work are inadequate.” -Davis Baird All work and no play makes the museum a dull place. Or...
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Cottage Gardens: Fact or Fiction?
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The fashionable accountant – Reconstructing his best outfit
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Moroccan Fashion Designers in the 1960s
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Victorian Futures: Culture, Democracy and the State on the Road to Olympicopolis
Victorian Futures: Culture, Democracy and the State on the Road to Olympicopolis Conference Poster, 14th – 15th May 2015 BOOK YOUR PLACE A collaboration between University of the Arts London, Middlesex...
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Andrew McIlwraith is a PhD researcher in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. His research is funded by the AHRC Design Star Centre for Doctoral...
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Fashion, the 84th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, 2-3 July 2015
Article produced by Gemma Dormer, Events and Marketing Officer, Institute of Historical Research In a major collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, the IHR is taking Fashion as the theme...
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Part 6 – Discussion of his own work in relation to the themes of a Brazilian Vernacular Alexandre da Cunha, Artist With the generous support of the Embassy of Brazil in London, the Victoria... The...
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The Military Buff coat: A haptic experience During my time as an MA student on the V&A/RCA History of Design course I came across a word, haptic, that has fascinated me ever since. Both its...
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An Object Lesson with Malcolm Baker As we walked from the beautiful red ante chamber to the white drawing room, the sun came through the clouds and gently lit the eight striking faces of... The post...
View ArticleHistory of Design: The New Term Has Started!
by Christine Guth and Simona Valeriani The new term has started! The first year cohort of 24 students on the V&A/RCA History of Design MA programme has arrived. These students from 8 countries...
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This post was written by Joanna Weddell, AHRC CDA Disseminating Design, Centre for Research and Development, University of Brighton and Research Department, the Victoria & Albert Museum. This post...
View ArticleAll work and no play makes the museum a dull place?
by Grace Bremner “[W]e learn by interacting with bits of the world even when our words for how these bits work are inadequate.” -Davis Baird All work and no play makes the museum... The post All...
View ArticleCottage Gardens: Fact or Fiction?
by Sophie Foan The English are well known for their love of gardening. From village flower and produce shows to inner city allotments, evidence of this is manifest nationwide. The public have long...
View ArticleThe fashionable accountant – Reconstructing his best outfit
by Katy O’Neill and Francesca Butcher ‘Menswear is about subtlety. It’s about good style and good taste.’ Alexander McQueen A first impression of the garish red and yellow outfit depicted [above]...
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By M. Angela Jansen Visiting Scholar in the Research Department at the V&A Very little research has been conducted on the first generation of Moroccan fashion designers who emerged in Casablanca in...
View ArticleVictorian Futures: Culture, Democracy and the State on the Road to Olympicopolis
BOOK YOUR PLACE A collaboration between University of the Arts London, Middlesex University and the Victoria and Albert Museum. On 14 and 15 May 2015, Chelsea College of Arts will host a two-day...
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