Room 53: Rococo Style
Room 53 is a study into the flamboyant Rococo style. It was used mainly for objects and interiors and never used fo…
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Room 54: Baroque, Palladianism and Propaganda
Room 54 reflects the flourishing of skills such as decorative painting, carving, metalwork and upholstery in the ex…
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Room 54a: The Melville Bed
The Melville Bed was commissioned by George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville, for his new house in Fife.…
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Room 56: The Civil War Years
The Djanogly Gallery contains a vivid display on the magnificent dressing of the nobility in the early 1700s. This …
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Room 56c: Britain & the Indies
This room looks at the development of British art and design in the late 17th and early 18th centuries as a result …
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Room 57: The Great Bed of Ware
he enormous, three-metre-wide, Great Bed of Ware dominates Room 57. Probably built for an inn at Ware, Hertfordshir…
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Room 58: Renaissance Style
Henry VIII, a great patron of the arts, spent lavishly on furnishings, paintings, tapestries and silver. Examples o…
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Room 58b: Heraldry & Sheldon Tapestries
Room 58b contains a display on heraldry in the 16th century as well as a selection of Sheldon tapestries. William S…
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Room 73: Italian Souvenirs
Room 73 houses micromosaics from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection. Micromosaics depicting popular attrac…
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Room 74: 20th century, internationalism & modernism
This room is divided into three bays. The first includes objects made between 1900 and 1920, a time when appropriat…
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Room 76: 20th century, design since 1945
The displays in this gallery explore art and design from the end of the Second World War until the present day. In …
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Room 101: Europe & America 1800-1900
The Europe and America 1800-1900 Gallery includes furniture, ceramics, glass, paintings, posters, books, metalwork …
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Room 118: Neo-classicism in Britain
This Wolfson Gallery looks at how Neo-classicism transformed architecture and design in Britain in the second half …
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Room 120: Beckford, Hope & Regency Classicism
The Wolfson Galleries feature several personalities who influenced art and design in the early 19th century. Among …
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Room 122: Gothic Revival & Empire
Room 122 looks at the Gothic Revival in architecture and design in the 19th century. During this time, powerful rel…
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Room 122d: Gothic Revival
The display on the Gothic Revival in the mid 19th century beginning in Room 122 continues here. The Gothic style wh…
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Room 123: Celebration & Commemoration
Room 123 includes an interesting display of commemorative items made for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.…
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Room 125: Morris, Dresser & Mackintosh
This Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery looks at the different styles which prevailed in the late 19th century. These i…
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Room 125c: Influences from Beyond Europe
This gallery shows objects from Victorian Britain when retailers sold a growing range of goods imported from Asia a…
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Room 188a: The Garricks
Room 118a looks at the impact of new eating and drinking habits in the 18th century, the development of trade with …
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Room 41: South Asia
The Nehru Gallery displays jewellery, textiles, furniture, arms and armour, metalwork and paintings of the Mughal a…
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Room 44: China
The T. T. Tsui Gallery houses one of the most comprehensive and important collections of Chinese art dating from 30…
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Goods & services provided by the upholsterer
Upholsterers could be involved in almost all aspects of the design of interiors, and featured in this page is an illustration demonstrating the work of an upholsterer.
Furniture & woodwork reading list
Recommended reading about furniture and woodwork.
Making a gallery: refurbishing the Ceramics galleries 2005-2010
In 2005 the V&A began the task of funding, redesigning and redisplaying the Ceramics galleries so that once more the world's most comprehensive ceramics collection could be secured for the study and enjoyment of future generations. But why has it taken five years and what is involved in the process of creating new galleries at the V&A?
V&A gallery research
How we develop new galleries, test concepts and ideas with our prospective visitors, ask for visitors’ feedback on various different types of interpretation that we are considering, test mock-ups and prototypes for the idaes that we are thinking of using and conduct summative evaluation.
History of the Silver Galleries at the V&A
The galleries the Silver collection is now displayed in was the Victoria and Albert Museum’s original Ceramic galleries. These were restored in 1995-6.
Donate to the Stained Glass Appeal
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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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.
Buy nowEvent - Form, Fashion, Function: A Concise History of Furniture
Thu 24 January 2013 10:30
SHORT COURSE: Explore the fascinating history of European furniture, using objects, resources and expertise featured in the V&A’s new furniture gallery.
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