Furniture & woodwork reading list

Chests of Drawers and Commodes in the Victoria and Albert Museum, John F. Hayward,  1960

Tables in the Victoria and Albert Museum, John F. Hayward, 1961

English Cabinets in the Victoria and Albert Museum, John F. Hayward, 1964

English Furniture, W.E.Clark Collection,1964

A Short History of English Furniture, 1966

Furniture Designs of E. M. Godwin, Elizabeth Aslin, reprint, 1970

Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Maurice Tomlin, 1972

English Cabinets, 1972

The Edward Henry and Eva Pinto Bequest, London, 1979

Early Stringed Instruments at the Victoria & Albert Museum, c.1980.

Tea Caddies, Gillian Walkling, 1985.

Furniture of About 1900 from Austria & Hungary in the Victoria  and Albert Museum,
Simon Jervis,  1986

English Medieval Furniture and Woodwork, Charles Tracy, 1988.

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Kaufmann Office, Christopher Wilk, 1993.

The Bettine, Lady Abingdon Collection-The Bequest of Mrs T.R.P.Hole. A handbook, Sarah Medlam, 1996 

Western Furniture: 1350 to the Present Day in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Christopher Wilk, ed., Philip Wilson and the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996.

William Morris (Exhibition Catalogue), Linda Parry ed., Philip Wilson and the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996

Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Howard Schott, Anthony Baines, James Yorke, 1998

Furniture from British India and Ceylon - A Catalogue of the Collections in the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, Amin Jaffer, 2001

Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain 1500-1900, Michael Snodin and John Styles, 2001.

Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton

8 February – 22 April 2012

Featuring portraits of Queen Elizabeth II by royal photographer Cecil Beaton, this exhibition celebrates Her Majesty in her roles as princess, monarch and mother and coincides with the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne.

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Antelope Chair - Race Furniture for the V&A

Antelope Chair - Race Furniture for the V&A

The V&A Shop is delighted to announce its exclusive collaboration with Race Furniture on the reissue of the Antelope Chair in its original Festival of Britain yellow.

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Event - Rivals and Revivals: Furniture in Europe and America, 1800-1900

Thu 01 March 2012 13:00

GALLERY TALK: Learn how trade and industrialisation brought unprecedented wealth to Europe and the United States in the nineteenth century. This tour of furniture will reveal how rivalry between emerging empires and nation states provoked an interest in reviving historical 'national' styles of furniture, and how new technologies and materials were also exploited.

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