BehindtheScenes Category
(2014) MoDA’s books receive conservation attention
MoDA’s Conservation Officer, Emma Shaw, talks about her recent work on the museum’s book collection. MoDA has over 2,000 books, some of which belonged to the Silver Studio, and others which have been acquired from other sources. Some of them were part of the Silver Studio’s working reference library. So for example we have books […]
Loan: ‘The Cult of Beauty’, V&A (2011)
Back in 2011, the V&A‘s exhibition The Cult of Beauty explored the rise of the Aesthetic movement in Britain. Members of the Aesthetic movement – including artists such as Whistler, Rossetti and Leighton – wished to escape the ugliness they saw resulting from Britain’s Industrial Revolution; and wanted instead to create an escapist world of ‘Beauty’. […]
Loan: ‘Katagami Style’, Japan (2012)
In 2012 some of the objects from MoDA’s collections were on show at an exhibition called Katagami Style in Japan It was shown at the Mitsubishi Ichikogan Museum, Tokyo, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Mie Prefectural Art Museum. It was curated by three professors from the Japan Women’s University, the Bunka […]
(2008) Funded Conservation: designs by Winifred Mold
Winifred Mold was a designer who worked for the Silver Studio from 1912 until 1935. Approximately 250 designs in our designated Silver Studio Collection have been attributed to her. This project, funded by the Association of Independent Museums in 2008 with a grant of £4,220, involved the conservation of an eiderdown with a design by […]
(2007) Funded Conservation: Japanese materials
We were very grateful to receive a grant of £2,000 from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation in 2007, to fund the preparation for our exhibition Japanastic: Japan-Inspired patterns for the British home 1880-1930. The funding was received as part of Japan-UK 150, a festival of Japan-related events celebrating 50 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and […]
Funded Conservation: AHRC Interwar Suburban Style (2006)
A generous grant of £42,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in 2006 funded an ambitious re-housing and cataloguing program of around 3,000 Silver Studio designs on paper, dating from the 1920s and 1930s. The inter-war period was an important one in terms of the Silver Studio’s output, and the designs are amongst […]
(2006) Funded Conservation: Silver Studio designs
In 2006 we received £1,967 from the MLA to help fund the re-housing of original Silver Studio designs for wallpaper, dating from the 1880s and 1890s. We recruited a group of conservation student volunteers from Camberwell College of Arts. They sorted through the collection, undertaking surface cleaning of items, placing designs in melinex sleeves where […]