#Conservation Category
Conservation: rebinding Ogawa
The process of conservation revealed unexpected and fascinating details about the construction of the Ogawa albums of collotypes, which helps shed light on their history as part of a dialogue between Japan and the West.
Conservation: Ogawa photography meets biochemistry (2021)
We employed Lara Speroni, archives and books conservator (ACR), in December 2019 to conserve two volumes of collotypes by celebrated Japanese photographer, Kasumasa Ogawa. The plan was that the conservation work would dovetail around the loan of pages from these albums to Dulwich Picture Gallery’s exhibition, Unearthed: Photography’s Roots. A Conservation Challenge Lara’s brief was […]
Student Conservator sheds new light on Silver Studio designs
Arantza Dobbels (MA Paper Conservation, UAL) used scientific analysis to help her conserve eight Silver Studio designs.
Art Nouveau Stencilled wallcoverings (2019)
Fifty six important stencilled textiles, grasspapers and wallcoverings from MoDA’s Silver Studio Collection are now available to students and researchers, following the completion of a major conservation project. We are grateful for the support of the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) who made this project possible. the problem The stencilled materials were originally stored roughly […]
(2019) Funded Conservation: Silver Studio Stencilled wallcoverings
This conservation project focused on original Art Nouveau stencilled wallcoverings on paper, grasspaper and textile. They form part of MoDA’s Silver Studio Collection. As far as we know, no other institution holds similar or related materials, and no other artist or designer experimented with these particular combinations. These stencilled materials were made in the 1890s. […]
Rebekah Harbord: A work placement project
MA Conservation student Rebekah Harbord summarises her work on 1940s designs at MoDA
Naoko Nomoto: Silver Studio grasspaper stencils (2018)
Our conservator Emma Shaw looked at some intriguing stencilled materials of the 1890s with the help of Naoko Nomoto, a postgraduate volunteer.
Elisabeth Randell: Conserving Transparent Paper
MoDA’s Preventative Conservation Officer, Emma Shaw supports students on the MA Conservation course at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, through placements and project work. Recently, Elisabeth Randell completed some conservation work for us as part of her course. She shares her experience here. I was fortunate enough to work on three […]
Tracing Paper
MoDA’s Preventative Conservation Officer, Emma Shaw, shares her knowledge of tracing papers. I recently attended a two day Conservation of Tracing Paper Workshop at Tate Britain lead by Hildegard Homburger, a paper conservator from Berlin with a great deal of experience in the conservation of architectural designs and art works on tracing paper. The course […]
Historic Magazines given new lease of life (2014)
MoDA’s Preventive Conservation Officer, Emma Shaw, explains how the magazine collection has recently become much more accessible to users. The collections of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture include some fantastic magazines dating from the early twentieth century. They are frequently requested by students and researchers because they are interesting from a variety of […]