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| Mia Hatgis
Beneath a flowering tree:
| An 18th-century Indian petticoat piece
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| Sarah Foster
Going shopping in 18th-century Dublin
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| Kristina Huneault
With shield and sword
| Working women in trade-union imagery
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| Esther Leslie
The exotic of the everyday
| Critical theory in the parlour
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| Stephen Escritt
The name's Goldfinger, Ernö Goldfinger
| Goldfinger House, London
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| Clive Wainwright
Unloved and unlovely
| De Lelijke Tijd: Pronkstukken van Nederlandse interieurkunst 1835-1895
(The age of ugliness: showpieces of Dutch decorative art 1835-1895)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
22 November 1995 - 31 March 1996
Jaan Kaplinski
| Poem
Translated from the Estonian by Hildi Hawkins
Hannah Andrassy
| Read the book, then wear the clothes
Colin McDowell
The Literary Companion to Fashion Sinclair-Stevenson, London
Clive Hilton
| Driller thriller
The British Dental Association Museum
London
Rosa Liksom
| Varvara-Coco-Cher
Following fashion in Moscow.
Translated from the Finnish by Hildi Hawkins
Russell Flinchum
| Piggy in the middle
Craft in the Machine Age 1920 -1945
American Craft Museum, New York
Alistair O'Neill
| Concealing transparency
Jil Sander Catalogue Spring/Summer 1995
Tama Janowitz
| Spells
Extract from Slaves of New York
Katherine Sharp
| For what we are about to receive
Susannah Constantine and Pia Marocco
Just What I've Always Wanted The Secret Formula for Choosing the Perfect Gift Quadrille, London
Stephen Kent
| Spirits of the past
Dennis Severs's house
Spitalfields, London
Victoria Kelley
| Naming names
Designs of the Times: One Hundred Years of the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art Galleries, London
7 February - 20 March 1996
Stephen Escritt
| Revival of the fittest
Raphael Samuel
Theatres of Memory Verso, London
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Lesley Jackson
Contemporary: Architecture and Interiors of the 1950s Phaidon, London
Francesca Vanke
| Easy on the eye
Relentless Perfection At Home with Lord Leighton
Leighton House Museum
Holland Park, London
16 February - 21 April 1996
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Frederic Leighton: 1830-1896
Royal Academy of Arts
Piccadilly, London
15 February - 21 April 1996
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Leighton House at Liberty
Liberty, Regent Street, London
21 March - 20 April 1996
Charles Saumarez Smith
| Ordering things
Susan Pearce
On Collecting An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition Routledge, London and New York
Ann Kelly
| Scents and sensibility
A Day at the Wells
The Corn Exchange
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Grace Lees
| Coming round again
Recycling: Forms for the Next Century
Crafts Council Gallery, London
22 February - 21 April 1996
Thora Veblen
| Dream shopping
Lost in the supermarket
Thomas Kleibrink
| Just one careful owner
Guns and jewellery in Berlin
Gareth Williams & Eleanor John
| Whodunnit?
Auctions of modern design
Hildi Hawkins
| Superfluous things
Sovjet Design Rosa Liksomin kotimuseo
(Soviet design Rosa Liksom's home museum)
Lenin Museum
Tampere, Finland
5 January - 15 September 1996
Dipti Bhagat
| The Hottentot Venus
The strange fate of Saartjie Bartman
online article / amazon.co.uk link / gallery link
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