1960s textile designers
Textile designers from the 1960s with a brief history, background and information on each.
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Biography of Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) is still one of the world's best-selling and best-loved children's authors. She wrote an…
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Yves Saint Laurent
'Yves Saint Laurent has a fifty-fifty deal with the street. Half of the time he is inspired by the street and half …
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Guidelines for students & artists working in the Galleries
The V&A has been a source of inspiration for artists and designers for over 150 years. This tradition continues today with students and artists from all over the world finding the V&A's collections rich in the subjects for sketching, researching and examining as source material.
Artists' books reading list
An introductory reading list on artists' books. All books listed can also be consulted in the National Art Library at the V&A.
Chairs by designer Shao Fan
Artist Shao Fan is sculptor and painter, and freely experiments with various media. To the contemporary Chinese design industry however, the name Shao Fan is often immediately associated with his reconstructed, or rather, 'Deconstructed' chairs.
Art, design & empire: contemporary artists and the legacy of empire
This film shows how three contemporary artists respond to the legacy of empire, in terms of their own work and how they view historic objects. Lubaina Himid, Jane Adam and Yinka Shonibare discuss how empire and cultural exchange has influenced and shaped British design.
Walter Crane cover design for ‘Illustrations of the Victorian Series and Other Wall-Papers’
This design for the cover of a book of wallpapers manufactured by Jeffrey and Co was created by Walter Crane (1845-1915) in 1887. This image shows a winged young man blowing a horn or trumpet, surrounded by swirling acanthus leaves. Walter Crane's monogram - his initials and a crane - can be seen at the bottom right hand corner of the design.
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We are currently working on an exciting project to conserve and re-install the original stained glass on the landings of the Manfred and Lydia Gorvy Lecture Theatre. We need your help to raise £75,000 to bring these historical features back to their former glory for us all to enjoy.
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Artistic Circles: Design and Decoration in the Aesthetic Movement
Artists' houses and their gardens formed a distinct and influential strand in Victorian architecture and decoration
Buy nowEvent - Intercultural Tour - British Refugee designers from Nazi Europe
Mon 18 June 2012 13:00
FREE TALK: Several well known designers fled Nazi Europe and became established practitioners in the UK. Discover the lives and works of Lucy Rie and Hans Coper as well as other émigré designers who left Europe at this time.
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