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Evoluon 2 (crop 1)

Evoluon, Eindhoven, 1968

Evoluon, Eindhoven, 1968

Science and technology exhibition, Evoluon, Eindhoven, 1968
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Evoluon 2 (crop 1)
Britain Can Make It 1 (crop 1)

Mural in the Furnished Room, Britain Can Make It , V&A, London, 1946
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Britain Can Make It 1 (crop 1)
Taiwan 1 (crop 1)

Sketch of exhibition layout,
National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan, 1986-88
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Taiwan 1 (crop 1)
Britain Can Make It 2 (crop 1)

Tea Bar, Britain Can Make It , V&A, London, 1946
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Britain Can Make It 2 (crop 1)
Taiwan 2 (crop 1)

Interior view,
National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan, 1986-88
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Taiwan 2 (crop 1)
Exhibition 1

Construction of exhibition space,
Britain Can Make It , V&A, London, 1946
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Exhibition 1
Taiwan 3 (crop 1)

Interior view,
National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan, 1986-88
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Taiwan 3 (crop 1)
B&BwFord

President Ford, Robert Staples, and Barbara Fahs Charles
with model of the "Levitating White House," for the Ford Museum, 1980
Staples & Charles

B&BwFord
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Sketch of Australia section,
Commonwealth Institute, London, c. 1961
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Francisco 2 059
Festival of Britain 2 (crop 1)

Fashions Hall, Britain Can Make It , V&A, London, 1946
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Festival of Britain 2 (crop 1)
Evoluon 1 (crop 1)

Gallery view of The Senster,
Evoluon, Eindhoven, 1968
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Evoluon 1 (crop 1)
PhotographyandtheCityinstallSI19681

Installation view, Photography and the City ,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 1968
Staples & Charles

PhotographyandtheCityinstallSI19681
Evoluon 3 (crop 1)

General view
Evoluon, Eindhoven, 1968
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Evoluon 3 (crop 1)
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Panel 11: Orientalism and empire

Panel 11: Orientalism and empire

Solmaz Kive (University of Oregon, US)
Decorated otherness: the making of the Oriental Courts at the South Kensington Museum

This presentation discusses the creation of the Oriental Court at the South Kensington Museum in terms of its role in framing non-European objects in this early decorative art museum. The South Kensington Museum (today’s V&A) was originally established by the Department of Practical Art in 1852. more…

Yannick Le Pape (Musée d’Orsay, France)
“Yet undecided”: features and failures of Assyrian exposure in the age of European imperialism

Throughout the 19th century, Assyrian artefacts were appreciated by European collectors and museum curators. Until the official excavations by Botta and Layard in the 1840s, little was known about these “miscellaneous objects” (as auctioneers of the time termed them). more…

Samuel Aylett (Open University, UK)
Designing imperial London at the Museum of London, 1976

My paper will examine how the design strategies responsible for the layout and spatial arrangements of the 1976 permanent galleries at the Museum of London shaped the historical interpretation, and in particular the place and value of empire within the Museum’s history of the development of London. more…

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Fancy furnitures

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Displaying Empire

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Owen Jones and Decoration

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Assyrian exposure

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Sources and Context

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