Room 56: The Civil War Years
Room 56 contains a vivid display on the magnificent dressing of the nobility in the early 1700s. This includes, elaborate items of clothing and accessories such as shoes, lace-collars, gloves, purses and jewellery. Other themes explored in this room include fashionable living during the Civil War years, the new skill of marquetry, developments in ceramics, new forms of furniture, as well as both the Jacobean and Restoration styles.
Room 56 is on Level 2 of the V&A South Kensington.
Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950
From 19 May 2012 the V&A celebrates the opening of the newly renovated Fashion Galleries with an exhibition of beautiful ballgowns, red carpet evening dresses and catwalk showstoppers.
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The Smoke Room, Ashopton Inn (Custom Print)
The Smoke Room, Ashopton Inn, by Kenneth Rowntree (1915-97). Watercolour. Ashopton, Derbyshire, UK, 1940.
Buy nowEvent - Island Stories: Fifty Years of Photography in Britain
Thu 14 June 2012 13:00
FREE TALK: The rapidly shifting cultural environment after 1945 provided some of the greatest photographers of recent. Discover how photographers working in Britain since the Second World War have captured the diversity of the island and its people.
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