Highlights in this issue
Plastics? Not in My Collection
Brenda Keneghan, Plastics Conservator, Conservation Science
The Victoria & Albert Museum appointed its first plastics conservator in 1992 with the brief of surveying all the plastic objects within the collections.
Plastic, Pop and Mass-produced Design in the V&A's Collections
Gareth Williams, Assistant Curator, Care and Access, Department of Furniture and Woodwork
Objects made of plastic are everywhere in the Museum. Vessels, lighting, boxes and accessories are spread between the Ceramics and Glass, Metalwork, Furniture and Woodwork, and Textile and Dress Collections.
Two Pooped-out Pop Chairs: What is the Future for our Plastic Collections?
Roger Griffith, Furniture Conservation Student, RCA/V&A Conservation Course
One of the greatest challenges facing the conservator today is how to deal with modern materials. Modern materials have become increasingly important in museum collections and the Victoria and Albert Museum is no exception.
'Sham Columns in a Casing of Crockery'
Charlotte Hubbard, Senior Sculpture Conservator, Sculpture Conservation
The refurbishment of the Silver Gallery occasioned the conservation and restoration of two of the ceramic columns which had originally lined rooms 65-69.
October 1996 Issue 21
- Editorial
- Plastics? Not in My Collection
- Plastic, Pop and Mass-produced Design in the V&A's Collections
- Two Pooped-out Pop Chairs: What is the Future for our Plastic Collections?
- An Object Media Enigma
- Milk and Modernism: Conservation of a Smoker's Cabinet designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- 'Sham Columns in a Casing of Crockery'
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