Blog British Design History, 2023 | Material Matters

Field Based Learning

The author takes a selfie while she is laying on a tailor’s platform in front of an open window.

Tailoring Poetry and Opening Windows

A wide angle shot of the Nakashima living room turned gallery.

George Nakashima Was Born Today…And So Was I

Two women stand in a mercantile shop. One is being fitted for a gown with beige fabric, and the other is pinning the fabric into place.

Staying in Fashion at the Milliner’s

Premium Petals: A Luxurious Dutch Tobacco Box

Alt Text: A black and white drawing looking down from a balcony into a museum gallery. Plaster casts of various classical and Renaissance sculpture clutter the floors surrounding a giant column in two pieces. People dressed in dark clothing sit on benches at the base of the column, some of them sketching.

Accessibility Across the Ages at the Victoria & Albert

Unfinished Business: Signature Quilts and their Creative Process

A chandelier seen from below. The branches form a star-like pattern. Behind, beige and coffee colored floral plasterwork can be seen against the blue of the ceiling.

Saccharine Survivors: William Parker’s Assembly Room Chandeliers

A mass of green and pink colors around a white center. The blobs are darker toward the bottom left, showing the range of values and tones possible in the scarlet color range.

A Symphony of Color [Theory] in Mary Gartside’s Essay on Light and Shade

Eight people standing in a line in front of a red painted house. The grass they are standing on and the plants at the base of the house in the background are green.

The WPAMC Experience: 5 from 5 in 5

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