#victoriaandalbert — Public Fediverse posts

Would you buy a wooden copy of the world's best-selling plastic chair? It's the Monobloc.

The mass-produced version is one piece of injection-moulded plastic. Its low cost made the Monobloc a commercial success from the 1970s.

The more recent wooden replica series was carefully crafted of elm. Skill, material, and exclusivity perhaps turn this familiar, mass-produced household shape into art.

Conceived of by Dutch designer Maarten Baas in 2008 while in China to study local artistic and cultural practices, Baas’ wooden interpretation reflects the contradictions he observed in Shanghai: cheap versus expensive, common versus luxury, machine-produced versus crafted, disposable versus collectible, and original versus copy.

Baas' 50 limited-edition chairs challenge viewers to consider the aesthetic design of the original humble, plastic Monobloc.

The Victoria & Albert Museum collection has both.

#design #art #concept #furniture #chair #Monobloc #wood #plastic #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum

What makes Henry Beck's London subway map endure? It has no unnecessary detail.

His 1931 sketch, in coloured pencil and despite corrections, already shows the characteristics we still see today on transit maps worldwide. Management initially rejected Beck's idea—not map-like, too radical—but a 1933 trial proved it met the public's needs better than a geographically accurate map.

Most passengers don't need geographic accuracy or distances on a transit map. They need to know the start point, direction, transfer point, and end point. They want to count: "How many stops?" and "How many zones?" Some want to locate stair-free access.

Beck's Tube map resembles an electrical circuit, with different colours for different train lines. Stations are a simple mark, and a name. Connections are circles, and a name. There are now so many train lines that the latest version of Beck's map uses multiple line styles.

#art #design #transit #graphic #map #London #UK #Tube #Underground #VictoriaAndAlbert

“Have nothing … that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” —Wm Morris

A huge influence on the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris revived block printing and vegetable dyeing. He set up looms for weaving tapestry and hand-knotting carpets in his home. His designs were also translated into stained glass. He was a knowledgeable textile historian, and fascinated by medieval history and medieval architecture.

Morris was the most successful textile designer and manufacturer of his day, with two London shops selling silk, cotton, and gauze. He designed and decorated parts of what’s now the Victoria & Albert. This museum has 1,100 objects connected to Morris—mainly textile and wallpaper, in various colours and scales, for interior decorating. Copyright on his repeating patterns of vegetation, flowers, and birds, recently expired, which fuelled a revival of these textile designs.

#applied #art #design #WilliamMorris #ArtsAndCrafts #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #textile

How many David Bowie masks does one museum need? Apparently, over 20.

The V&A has a series of masks, some representing the different characters Bowie played as a rock star.

Bowie was trained in drama, mime, and dance, and he understood music as performance art. He pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality during 1970s glam rock. He broke through with Ziggy Stardust, moved on to Aladdin Sane, then, in 1983, he produced his mainstream Let's Dance album and Serious Moonlight tour.

The plastic life mask, pictured, was painted to resemble Bowie's Aladdin Sane character. Aladdin Sane reflects Bowie's newfound stardom and experience touring the U.S. with images of urban decay, drugs, sex, violence, and death. Artist William Forsche painted this mask grey, with red lips, black eyelashes, and iconic lightning bolt across the face.

Have a look at more Bowie masks at the V&A by other artists: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?page=1&page_size=15&q=Bowie%2Bmask

#art #design #DavidBowie #Bowie #mask #music #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum

What adventurous setting inspired many children's toys? Outer space!

Toys from the 2 decades in which human spaceflight went from science fiction to reality—the 1950s and 1960s—added lights and sound, while Japan's toy manufacturers perfected the small motors that gave their toys much-prized movement.

Colourful examples from 1965 are: (clockwise) Astro 8 flying saucer by Marubishi-Yamazaki, Dan Dare Space Control Radio Station by JL Randall (1961), Moon Explorer by Masudaya, and Moon Rocket rocketship by Matsuya.

Such toys were usually battery powered, though Astro 8 was friction powered via its wheels. Space Control Radio Station had sound—handsets plugged in to the console, which had a Morse-code lever and scroll for decoding. Moon Rocket could simulate a landing; it mechanically set itself upright, opened a door, and then lowered a ramp.

Details are in the image descriptive ALT text.

#Art #Design #child #toy #Japan #UK #space #SpaceRace #moon #rocket #VictoriaAndAlbert #Museum

What adventure setting inspired many children's toys? Outer space!

Toys from the two decades in which human spaceflight went from science fiction to reality—the 1950s and 1960s—added lights and sound, while Japan's toy manufacturers perfected the small motors that gave their toys much-prized movement.

Colourful examples from 1965 are: (clockwise) Astro 8 flying saucer by Marubishi-Yamazaki, Dan Dare Space Control Radio Station by JL Randall (1961), Moon Explorer by Masudaya, and Moon Rocket rocketship by Matsuya.

Such toys were usually battery powered, though Astro 8 was friction powered via its wheels. Space Control Radio Station had sound—handsets plugged in to the console, which had a Morse-code lever and scroll for decoding. Moon Rocket could simulate a landing; it mechanically set itself upright, opened a door, and then lowered a ramp.

Details are in the image descriptive ALT text.

#Art #Design #child #toy #Japan #UK #space #SpaceRace #moon #rocket #VictoriaAndAlbert #Museum

What adventurous setting has inspired many children's toys? Outer space!

Toys from the two decades in which human spaceflight went from science fiction to reality—the 1950s and 1960s—added lights and sound. And Japan's toy manufacturers perfected the small motors that gave their toys much-prized movement.

Colourful examples from 1965 are: (clockwise) Astro 8 flying saucer by Marubishi-Yamazaki, Dan Dare Space Control Radio Station (1961) by JL Randall, Moon Explorer by Masudaya, and Moon Rocket rocketship by Matsuya.

Such toys were usually battery powered, though Astro 8 was friction powered via its wheels. The communication station had sound—communicators connected to a console, which had a Morse-code lever and built-in manual. The rocket could simulate a landing; it mechanically set itself upright, opened a door, and then lowered a ramp.

Details are in the image descriptive ALT text.

#Art #Design #child #toy #Japan #UK #space #SpaceRace #moon #rocket #VictoriaAndAlbert #Museum

What adventurous setting has inspired many children's toys? Outer space!

Toys from the two decades in which human spaceflight went from science fiction to reality—the 1950s and 1960s—added lights and sound. And Japan's toy manufacturers perfected the small motors that gave their toys much-prized movement.

Colourful examples from 1965 are: (clockwise) Astro 8 flying saucer by Marubishi-Yamazaki, Dan Dare Space Control Radio Station (1961) by JL Randall, Moon Explorer by Masudaya, and Moon Rocket rocketship by Matsuya.

Such toys were usually battery powered, though Astro 8 was friction powered via its wheels. The communication station had sound—communicators connected to a console, which had a Morse-code lever and built-in manual. The rocket could simulate a landing; it mechanically set itself upright, opened a door, and then lowered a ramp.

Details are in the image descriptive ALT text.

#Art #Design #child #toy #Japan #UK #space #SpaceRace #moon #rocket #VictoriaAndAlbert #Museum

How did 1600s Dutch households keep their fire embers from going out at night? With a curfew.

Yes, it's a pun. Curfews were metal covers that kept fire embers smouldering overnight, to be revived for the next day's cooking and heating. The word curfew comes from the French for fire cover (couvre feu).

The brass one pictured here is among the earliest to survive, made in Holland but now in London's V&A. It's embossed with an image of Saint Lawrence.

This is dark humour, since Lawrence was roasted alive in the third century—punishment for perhaps the first Christian protest. The early church's refusal to worship Roman gods led to persecution. Lawrence was ordered to surrender the church's treasures to authorities. He turned up with the sick, marginalized, poor, elderly, and widows, boldly proclaiming: “These are the true treasures of the church.” For this insolence, he was martyred (killed).

#art #design #brass #heating #fire #religion #saint #martyr #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #UK

How did 1600s Dutch households keep their fire embers from going out at night? With a curfew.

Yes, it's a pun. Curfews were metal covers that kept fire embers smouldering overnight, to be revived for the next day's cooking and heating. The word curfew comes from the French for fire cover (couvre feu).

The brass one pictured here is among the earliest to survive, made in Holland but now in London's V&A. It's embossed with an image of Saint Lawrence.

This is dark humour, since Lawrence was roasted alive in the third century—punishment for perhaps the first Christian protest. The early church's refusal to worship Roman gods led to persecution. St Lawrence was ordered to surrender the church's treasures to authorities. He turned up with the sick, marginalized, poor, elderly, and widows, boldly proclaiming: “These are the true treasures of the church.” For this insolence, he was roasted to death.

#art #design #brass #heating #fire #religion #saint #martyr #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #UK

What does it take to design artistic mass-market goods? Producibility.

For his designs of household appliances and kitchen gadgets, Italian Pino Spagnolo looked beyond aesthetic and emotional factors to the cost of materials, which affects the final price of the item.

From the late 1980s, Spagnolo's design studio specialised in transposing day-to-day dreariness into the world of art. He did this not only with kitchenware—coffee pots, corkscrews, cutlery, vases, and bar sets—but also in transportation (motorcycles, trains, yachts) and interior architecture.

Producibility was key to the Turin-based design studio's success: understanding the production technologies of the company commissioning a design. To bring art into day-to-day household work, a manufacturer must be able to profitably make and sell an object at the right price.

V&A has 40 Spagnolo objects: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/context/organisation/A16695/pino-spagnolo-design-snc

#art #design #household #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #tool #utensil #appliance

What could a bow shoot, besides arrows? Stones or pellets.

Pellet bows propel a pebble or clay pellet from a silk pouch on a double string.

The artistry is both in making the bow and string and in the shooting technique, or khatra. On releasing the string and pellet, archers must immediately move the bow—and the hand holding it—out of the path of the projectile, to avoid painful injury.

Pellet bows were used to hunt small game, on the ground or in flight.

Pictured is a bamboo galalee, goolal, or gulal, from mid-1800s Lahore, India. This bow has double strings of thin bamboo strips and blackened thread, joined in the centre by a sling attachment, for hurling clay pellets or stones. It's painted in green and gold, with ivory mountings.

This weapon was displayed in the India Museum from 1879, then transferred down the road in 1955 to the South Kensington, later the Victoria & Albert, then to the V&A's East Storehouse.

#design #art #weapon #bow #archery #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #UK

What was singer Eartha Kitt known for, besides the definitive rendition of Santa Baby? Acting and activism.

There's her growling purr, a half-dozen songs on the 1950s pop charts, roles on stage and screen—famously as Catwoman to TV's Batman—and as a voice actor in later years. Her collaborator Orson Welles called her "The most exciting woman in the world." Kitt won a Tony and 3 Emmy awards. She died Christmas day, 2008.

In 1950s London, Tin Pan Alley and pop-scene photographer Harry Hammond took a series of black-and-white photos of Kitt. The #VictoriaAndAlbert #Museum now houses the negatives.

Eartha Kitt was also a peace and LGBT+ activist. During the 1960s Vietnam war, she berated her White-House luncheon hosts, saying: "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder kids rebel and take pot." The fallout meant an unflattering CIA dossier and a career shift to Europe and Asia.

#art #design #photography #performance #EarthaKitt #BlackAndWhitePhotography

Can a cookie tin be a work of decorative art? Yes.

When the UK's Licensed Grocer's Act of 1861 first allowed the sale of individually packaged groceries, decorative cookie tins ("biscuit tins" in the UK) got their start. These simple metal boxes were soon embossed with 3D detail, and decorated with colourful lithographic prints.

They sold as Christmas gifts for children. (UK grocer Marks & Spencer continues the tradition.) Later tins appealed to adults, and decorated middle-class homes across Britain's empire.

By 1890, the mass-produced tins mimicked other objects in shape—first baskets, then collectable art like Chinese vases.

The 1912 "Bell" biscuit tin below has a faux copper finish. It's in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection, and was made for Reading, UK, biscuit makers Huntley & Palmers. See the image description (ALT text) for details.

Today's biscuit tins are sometimes sold in UK fundraisers.

#art #design #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #cookie #biscuit #tin #container

Which relative did Napoleon execute? A brother-in-law.

Carolina, said to resemble her brother in political astuteness, lost her husband due to her own ambitious miscalculation. Carolina's rise began at 17 with her marriage to Napoleon's officer, Joachim Murat. She soon became Grand Duchess of Berg, and Queen of Napoli.

Carolina's affluent life is reflected in the parure, or set of jewellery, shown below. This five-piece parure showcases the fine and detailed hardstone mosaic work of Laboratorio delle Pietre Dure. This workshop was established in Naples in 1737 by Charles VII, then King of Naples.

Carolina meddled in Napoleon's marriage to Josephine, and in a 1815 persuaded her husband to fight Napoleon. Murat was defeated and executed. Carolina fled to Trieste, renamed herself Countess of Lipona (an anagram of Napoli), and married another military man. In 1839 she died of the Bonaparte weakness, stomach cancer.

#art #design #jewellery #jewelry #hardstone #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum

More of this, please, museums of Great Britain 🧐

#victoriaAndAlbert

A beer jug promoted anti-slavery? Yes.

John Turner made this jug around the 1800s in what's now Stoke-on-Trent. Then, its coal-fired potteries caused heavy air-pollution and hazardous working conditions typical of England's industrial revolution and continuing until the UK's 1968 Clean Air Act.

Interestingly, out of one oppression came political support to end another: Turner's jug has an abolitionist theme.

Such jugs were fashionable around 1800 when decorated with an allegorical message. Turner's was more political—apparently unique—as the symbolic Britannia helps a slave. (See the image description in its ALT text for details). At the time, the anti-slavery campaign was unpopular in ports like Bristol and Liverpool, which served trade that used enslaved people.

However, the message on this jug didn't harm Turner. He was appointed Potter to the Prince of Wales in 1784 and had a retail outlet in London.

#art #design #pottery #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #slavery #abolition #race

Who calls herself "a voracious she-centaur"? Grace Jones.

Known for her distinctive androgynous appearance, bold features, and driving musical style, the Jamaican singer-songwriter started as a model in New York. From New York she went to Paris.

Jones modelled for Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, and graced the covers of Elle and Vogue Hommes. She has acted in over 20 films. Jones also posed for famed still photographers Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer. At the peak of her music career, her songs were dance-club favourites. Jones recorded 10 albums including Nightclubbing, Warm Leatherette, and Slave To The Rhythm.

Several of Jones' videos and record covers were by Jean-Paul Goude. (One sleeve is shown below.) Goude's fetish for Black culture was controversially documented in the autobiographical photo book Jungle Fever.

A Grace Jones concert is performance art. Now in her 70s, Jones remains a relentless performer.

#art #design #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #GraceJones #music

A nude drag queen as political commentary? Yes.

In 1996, Dame Edna Everage (performer Barry Humphries) posed in the nude for Lewis Morley, imitating Christine Keeler's infamous 1963 pose.

Keeler was sexually involved with a UK minister, a Soviet naval attaché, and a third lover who was shot. The press portrayed it as a national security threat. The minister denied it, but later resigned and admitted he lied.

As publicity for a related film, The Keeler Affair, Keeler posed nude. One photo was exploited, widely distributed by a UK newspaper, showing Keeler on a modern, curvy chair, an Arne Jacobsen knock-off of which millions were made.

The scandal led to several questionable trials—only for some involved. Keeler served 6 months in prison for perjury.

Dame Edna’s spoof photo may combine several messages: the 1963 attempted coverup and government scandal, the exploitative Keeler photo, nudity, feminism, and Danish design.

#Design #art #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #photo #furniture

Feminine hyper-masculinity? Yes.

African-American pop musician Prince was known for his racy lyrics, dynamic stage presence, and flamboyant appearance. He rocketed to global fame with the title song of the film Purple Rain. The song won an Oscar; three songs on the soundtrack reached platinum sales.

Prince's behaviour projected a straight, hyper-sexual image, offset by outfits that read as somewhat feminine to his film-, video-, and live audiences of the 1980s and 1990s.

Victoria & Albert Museum has a pair of the performer's heels—shoes that boosted his short stature. The zipper pulls feature the symbol Prince adopted as his name in 1993, when he became "the artist formerly known as Prince". The shoes were reinforced with steel to withstand his dynamic stage performances.

At 57, Prince sought treatment for addiction that some say resulted from a performance injury. He died of a fentanyl overdose in 2016.

#Prince #pop #music #art #design #performance #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #UK

Can one work of art be in multiple museums? Yes.

The 1919 woodcut print (below), generically titled Children Standing Around Christmas Tree, is in the collections of both the Victoria and Albert and Museum of Fine Art Houston.

Fourteen-year-old Steffi Krauss carved this image in wood, then inked and printed it on paper to make prints of about 40×30 centimeters (about 16×12 inches).

Steffi was a student of Franz Cizek's in 1914, at a time when children's art education was being transformed at the Vienna's Kunstgewerbeschule, or School of Arts & Crafts.

The print depicts children by a candle-lit Christmas tree. Below it is a crèche with Mary's and Joseph's garments adorned by crucifixes. One child holds one of two harlequin dolls.

The print combines multiple seasonal ideas, including the celebration of light in winter, Christianity, childhood joy and wonder, and—perhaps—symbols of mockery or doubt.

#art #design #print #woodcut #Christmas #VictoriaAndAlbert #MFAHouston #religion

What colour is fashionable skin? It's Nude.

Until very recently, the fashion industry's stance was that only a peach-pink (White) skin tone could be called nude. For example, in 2010, the British editor of Elle said nude is "a defined colour. It’s white nude, not black nude". Nude is also the name of Pantone colour 12-0911.

But in 2013, major fashion house Christian Louboutin was first to launch a shoe range in 5 skin tones, from dark to light. Skin-toned shoes, particularly if high-heeled, make the wearer's leg look longer since the leg and foot blend into the shoe. Louboutin's popular Nudes Collection later expanded to 7 tones with various heels. The shoe range continues to pose questions about racialism and to challenge the fashion industry to redefine "nude" so it includes people of all ethnicities.

See each of Louboutin's napa nude Fifi shoes up close: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?kw_object_type=Shoe&page=1&page_size=15&q_actor=Louboutin

#design #art #fashion #racialism #ethnicity #skintone #nude #shoe #footwear #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum

How did Victoria & Albert Museum get its Rodin collection? It was his gift to them.

The V&A Rodin collection includes a number of busts, which Rodin would first model in clay, and then cast in bronze (below). One bust is of Honoré de Balzac.

Balzac wrote a very popular series, La Comédie Humaine, a few decades after the French revolution. He drew inspiration from French commoners, and included a range of masculine and effeminate male characters, some "gay"—such as the manly and heroic master criminal, Vautrin. The hero had a caring relationship with a male lover for whom he sacrificed his freedom—taking his place in prison.

Balzac was the first in western literature to describe homosexuality as an IDENTITY rather than a sexual BEHAVIOUR. Publishing their stories in literature was possible because post-revolution France had decriminalised victimless crimes, which included consenting sexual relations.

#art #design #literature #Balzac #Rodin #sculpture #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #LGBT

Why are humans so concerned with how we eat? Is it purity? Beauty?

Consider Buddhism: Prince Siddhartha, in his attempt to reach enlightenment, meditated and fasted as his body wasted. (See photo.) Eventually, he embraced a moderate path, and succeeded.

Connections between purity and dietary extremes abound in religious and secular contexts.

Think of fasting, veganism, fish on Fridays, separate dishes for dairy, no pork, and no beef. The fasting and emaciated Buddha is still associated with Gandhara Buddhism art in Pakistan.

Think of how people eat to reach their goals—muscle gain, weight loss, health, beauty—through organic, high-protein/low-carb, raw, or anti-inflammatory.

1990s fashion glamourized emaciated, heroin chic bodies, while The Body Shop put food in its beauty products. Lush sold theirs AS IF food—in slices and tubs to smear on our bodies.

#art #design #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #religion #Buddhism #Islam #Judaism #Catholicism #fashion #diet #food #sculpture #statue

What does it take to get your work in a museum? Cultural impact.

Scottish-born Pam Hogg made an impact, in the music industry and, for 3 decades, as a clothing designer.

As a musician, Hogg created and performed with Rubbish, Garden of Eden, Doll, and Hoggdoll, some of which opened for The Pogues, Debbie Harry, and others.

As a fashion designer, Hogg applied her training (fine arts and printed textile) from Glasgow School of Art and London's Royal College of Art to make outfits for Siouxsie Sue, Alison Mosshart, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, Tyra Banks, Björk, Rihanna, Lily Allen, and supermodels Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, and Kate Moss.

Hogg's work was featured in a travelling exhibition, Switch On the Power, alongside Yoko Ono, Leigh Bowery, Andy Warhol, and Kraftwerk.

Victoria and Albert Museum's fashion collection includes Pam Hogg garments, which are sometimes on display, and which you can see on request.

#design #art #fashion #clothing #music #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum

#3GoodThings

1. Museums
2. Museum Festivities
3. Museum Late Night Festive Events

[Edited because apparently Mastodon doesn't like one of the tags I used]

#Museums #VictoriaAndAlbert

Can 1960s UK be put in a box? It's been done.

English fashion photographer and TV commercial director David Bailey shaped the popular image of the UK's mid-60s cultural revolution. Back then, England's larger cities helped redefine activism, culture, art, and music, ranging from the anti-nuclear movement, sexual liberation, psychedelic subculture, supermodel Twiggy, and the miniskirt, to the global British Invasion of pop bands.

In 1964, Bailey published Box Of Pin-Ups with 36 loose photos of the fashionable and famous. The Box was a celebration of the growing celebrity culture. Four of the pin-ups were young women, the rest were the young men who fuelled the Swinging Sixties that Bailey photographed. Among them were Mick Jagger and The Beatles' song-writing duo John Lennon and Paul McCartney—the ultimate pin-ups of that era.

For more of these photos, see V&A's online catalogue: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?id_gallery=THES49656&id_style=x37905&page=1&page_size=50&q_actor=David%2BBailey

#art #design #culture #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #photo #photography #UK #The60s

Would you have your own name engraved on a gift you had made for someone else?

In 1713, when Queen Anne appointed Robert Benson, or 1st Baron Bingley, as ambassador to the Spanish court, he was sent with what are now known as the Bingley cups. Leading London goldsmith Phillip Rollos the Younger made these enormous cups, each with a cover and salver, to be displayed as status symbols when Bingley hosted officials and diplomats. The cups showed the wealth and skill of Britain.

To get a sense of the maker's skill, have a look at the description of the photo (in its ALT text).

Each cup is finely engraved, on the side, with Queen Anne's perfectly lettered monogram, AR—appropriate since Bingley was representing Anne.

Museums often hold such objects on behalf of the UK government, which accepts them as payment of inheritance tax bills. In this way, some of the crown's past wealth returns to the nation.

#BingleyCups #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #art #design #silver #SilverSmith #tax #HMRC

What ancient Iranian medical treatment worked best? Prayer.

In the 3rd century, scientists from different civilizations gathered in Gundeshapur University (now Iran) to exchange ideas about the 3 kinds of treatment:
• medicine by the knife (surgery).
• medicine by herbs.
• medicine by divine words.
In pre-Islamic Iran, divine words were deemed more effective.

Medicinal herbs were dried, and could be worked into pills, salves, or syrups. These were stored in drug jars. Jars for syrup had a spout.

The fritware jar below was made of clay with added ground glass (frit) to lower the fusion or firing temperature. Tied parchment sealed the top; the lip held the tie in place.

Some jars were quite large (½ meter). This one, from the late 1100s, is relatively small at 19 centimeters. Later drug jars had a label glazed on, along with religious icons believed to affect the healing power of the jar's content.

#medicine #herb #drug #surgery #prayer #pottery #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum #Persia

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Tonight I popped my Michelin Star cherry. I don’t need to do it again, but I get it. I am also glad we did it.

#VictoriaAndAlbert

Ashamed that I never tried to correct #perspective until right now thanks to another post I saw on Mastodon. Here's a before and after of the #VictoriaAndAlbert museum in #London. Not sure how I feel about it yet.

#BeforeAndAfter
#Photography

Dundee
#victoriaandalbert #tayside #angus #photography #fotografie #fotografia #canon #scotland

I'm a bit late with this, but a great holiday themed video from the Victoria and Albert Museum. It even has a blooper reel at the end. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/iO55_OaXldw?si=9U1lvxl0U3F1GnMq #V&A #museums #VictoriaAndAlbert

Made a curtain with a V&A tea towel, because why not
(note to self : next time, think of cutting out the label before sewing 🤨)

Arts and Crafts Seaweed design
“Inspired by a hand-printed wallpaper in the V&A collections; this pattern was originally designed by John Henry Dearle for Morris & Co in 1901”

#handmade #sewing #ArtsAndCrafts #VictoriaAndAlbert #WilliamMorris #JohnHenryDearle #repurpose

The #Young #VictoriaAndAlbert Children's #Museum have reportedly #removed #LGBTQIA #books and a #trans #poster ahead of #reopening.

The #poster in question said: “Some people are #trans, get over it!”

https://diva-magazine.com/2023/07/04/young-va-removed-lgbtqia-books-and-trans-poster/

At the V&A today with the family. #VandA #VictoriaAndAlbert #victoriaandalbertmuseum #photography #ceramics #landscapepainting

Hallyu! The Korean Wave

Visited this fascinating and fun exhibition at the V&A today. Thoroughly recommend 👍🏻.

It showcases the colourful and dynamic popular culture of South Korea, exploring the makings of the Korean Wave and its global impact on the creative industries of cinema, drama, music, fandom, beauty and fashion.

#V&A #VictoriaAndAlbert #Museum #TheKoreanWave #Hallyu #outwalking #Exhibition #London #Korea #VAM #SquidGame #Parasite #Fashion

https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/hallyu-the-korean-wave

At the V&A, enjoying the subtlety and depth of colour of this fresco by del Vaga
The Raising of Lazarus
About 1538-40
Perino del Vaga (1501-47)

#VictoriaAndAlbertMuseum #V&A #museum #london #outwalking #fresco #renaissance #VictoriaAndAlbert #art

Best I do my #introductions to you all. I've mostly worked in #telesales and #customerservice although back in my single days I worked at the gorgeous #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum in admin. Yes I'm a #DoctorWho fan, 4th being my Doctor ❤❤🟦 Also love the #MCU and #comics genre, #books in general - I read anything- #KPop sensations #Blackpink, #LGBTQIA ally and recently discovered #pansexual 😊 Here in the UK I'm happily part of the #wokerati #left holding Govt to account. So yeah, hi all 👋👋