Audio: Robert Adam & William Chambers
An audio discussion the rivalry of Robert Adam and William Chambers
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The Scandal relief
Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885–1934) has come to be regarded as one of the most outstanding British sculptors of the first half of the 20th century. His most accomplished pr…
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Design for a Vaulted Ceiling, by Vincenzo Brenna, about 1775
This highly finished and elegantly drawn design was executed by the Italian architect, interior decorator and decorative painter Vincenzo Brenna (1745-1820) around 1776. It…
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The Morlaix staircase
This carved oak staircase came from a townhouse in Morlaix, Brittany, in France. The house was timber framed and of a particular type known as a 'maison à pondalez'.
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Interior Design in the Archive of Art & Design
The interior designers represented in the Archive of Art and Design illustrate over 200 years of influence on the buildings we live and work in, and how we decorate them. T…
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Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior since the Renaissance (Paperback)
This innovative book examines the changing ways in which the domestic interior has been represented in the West over the last five hundred years. Look…
Buy nowEvent - Highlights at Blythe House
Wed 22 May 2013–Fri 24 May 2013
The V&A’s Beverley Hart will show a range of highlights found in the Museum’s collection held in its main storage space at Blythe House.
