Buy this book on-line MORRIS,BARBARA**: : INSPIRATION FOR DESIGN:The Influence of the Victoria & Albert Museum.**LONDON.V & A PUBLICATIONS,1986. ISBN 0948107391.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum has,since its inception,been concerned with promoting good design and was conceived to provide inspiration to designers and manufacturers and to influence the taste of the general public.Founded by Sir Henry Cole in 1852 as the Museum of Ornamental Art at Marlborough House,it became the South Kensington Museum in 1856,and then the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899.So widespread was the influence of the Museum and its collections,
both at home and abroad,that in the second half of the
19thC the improvement in the design of British products was to lead to the establishment of similar museums of applied art throughout Europe and the United States.As a result,the reader will find in this
book a comprehensive survey of the development of design,particularly in the decorative arts,from the mid-19thC to the present day.The work of such well-known designers as William Morris,Walter Crane and Emile Galle,of painters and sculptors such as Frank Brangwyn and Eric Gill,is here discussed and fully documented.The Museum's impact on commercial products is also demonstrated in separate chapters dealing with the textile industry,furniture,ceramic and glass,
gold and silversmithing,and jewellery.The Museum's involvement with modern crafts and design organisations is underlined by the numerous temporary exhibitions it has sponsored,notable examples being the post-war shows of Scandanavian Design,Victorian Decorative Arts and Art Nouveau,all of which have had a considerable impact on contemporary British manufacture.
The last section of the book is appropiately devoted to statements by living craftsmen and designers,who explain what the Museum has meant to them,for its influence is undoubtedly as strong today as it has been in the past.
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