British Design History 2025

British Design History, 2025

A ceramic plate, predominantly in blue and white. The design in the center is of a hot air balloon, with a green balloon, two oars attached to the basket and a tiny person in it, soaring over a blue-and-white landscape of Asian-style buildings and palm trees. The border features swags of tiny blue Xs, with flowers hanging in the center of each. On the very edge of the plate is a grass-like pattern.

Britain’s Balloon Madness: How English Potteries Responded to Contemporary Trends

This is a photo of a period room in the Museum of the Home. In the center of the room is a double bed up positioned against a wall with curtains covering it. To the left of the bed is a wardrobe. Hanging on a hanger hooked around one of the wardrobe's knobs is a wedding dress. A small table covered with a tablecloth and with a violin laying on it is in front of the wardrobe. Hanging on the wall is a shelf with bottles and boxes on it. Closest to the viewer is a vanity, which is positioned on the room's left wall. The vanity has makeup strewn on it and a chair pulled up next to it. A cross and a painting of two swans hang on the wall above the vanity.

British Design: Museum of the Home

A framed print featuring an ogee arch framing a skeleton, the Devil, an angel, and a cityscape, along with text.

Bring Out Your Dead: Design, Death, and the Human Condition on Display

A large blue-and-white transfer-printed soup tureen with a matching ladel.

Beyond Blue: Cobalt from Pottery to Cell Phones

An octagonal room with yellow walls hung with pictures, marble columns, and a skylight.

Shaping Studio Spaces

An outdoor stage under a platform supported by columns surrounded by circular banks of seating.

All Roads Lead Back to the Bard

A damaged black-and-white photo of a bearded Black man wearing sunglasses on his forehead.

Art & Public Service: Frank Walter

A long table with copper pots on it in front of a sink under a semicircle-shaped window.

Even the King’s Got to Eat: The Kitchens of Britain’s Historic Houses

Looking Backward to Move Forward: Caxton, Marginalia, and the English Printing Press

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