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The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) has received international acclaim for its major exhibitions. This year it is putting on International Arts & Crafts, the first to explore the Arts & Crafts Movement as an international style from the 1880s when it flourished in Britain, through to its widespread development as a style in America, continental Europe and Scandinavia, until its final manifestation as the Mingei (folk craft) movement in Japan between 1926 and 1945. The Arts & Crafts Movement emerged from the short lived Aesthetic Movement in Britain and its leading lights were many of the same people like William Morris. Both Movements were a reaction to the over-ornate high Victorian style and looked back to a simpler time when things were made by craftsmen rather than by machine.
Three hundred objects from museums and private collections around the world will be on display including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, metalwork, jewellery, books, photography, paintings, prints, sculpture and architecture. Approximately a third of the exhibition is from the V&A’s collections. Highlights of the exhibition include four domestic room settings with two English interiors and full scale reconstructions of an American ‘Craftsman’ room and a Japanese ‘model room’. Objects on display will include jewellery by C.R. Ashbee, a lamp by Frank Lloyd-Wright, a stained glass window by M. H. Baillie Scott and a large Japanese stoneware dish by Hamada Shoji.
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