Arts & Crafts Movement love: a lecture on the Watts Gallery
From the William Morris Society in the United States: “An Artists’ Village, Compton, England: A Center of Nineteenth Century Art and Design” Lecture by Richard Ormond and Perdita Hunt Wednesday,...
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Click here to view the embedded video. This fun video by the Argentinian design group Ombu has been making its way around the art and architecture worlds online this winter. It shows 26 iconic...
View ArticleA house of porcelain
Photo: ShanLuPhoto on flickr Via the flickr blog: The 4th largest city in China, Tianjin, has an unusual attraction known as the Porcelain House or China House. An affluent collector of Chinese vases...
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I don’t know if more email is what any of us needs, but if that’s the Met’s chosen way to share information on its curators’ favorite new works recently added to the collection, I’ll probably sign up...
View ArticleWomen in architecture
Studies of the first licensed female architect in the U.S., and, a generation later, the first in California: Hadley Meares and Karen McNeill look at the work of Julia Morgan in California [Curbed]...
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