Editorial
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Rosemary Hill
| Keats and the Grecian urn
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Shaun Cole
Corsair slacks and Bondi bathers
| Vinces Man's Shop and the beginnings of Carnaby Street fashion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ruth Levy
GUI & WYSIWYG
| A history of graphic design software | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grace Lees
Balancing the object
| The reinvention of Alessi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Veli Gran
The collector collector
| Words and images
other things | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hildi Hawkins
Inside-out
| Pat Kirkham
Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Victoria Kelley
Object lesson
| E. Annie Proulx
Accordion Crimes Fourth Estate, London
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Ruth Fainlight
My mother's old leather handbag...
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Jorma Hinkka
Jam today
| Zuzana Lickos' Mrs Eaves font | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kate McIntyre
First-name terms
| Objects of our Time
Crafts Council Gallery, London 5 December - 16 February 1997 - Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
26 April - 8 June 1997
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Obscure Objects of Desire
Reviewing the Crafts in the 20th Century
Conference
University of East Anglia, Norwich
10-12 January 1997
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Lisa Hirst
Not so new
| Christian Dior
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
12 December 1996 - 23 March 1997
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Tribute to Christian Dior
Victoria
& Albert Museum
London, 9 February 1997 - September 1997
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Forties Fashion and the New Look
Imperial War Museum, London
12 February - 31 August 1997
E. Annie Proulx
Crossing over
Extract from the novel Accordion Crimes
Harri Kalha
How was it for me?
The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939
| An Alliance of Art and Industry Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York
21 November 1996 - 2 March 1997
Clive Wainwright
Histor(icism)ismus
Der Traum vom Gluck: Die Kunst des Historismus in Europa
Kinstlerhaus und Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna
13 September 1996 - 6 January 1997
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Historicism in Russia: Style and Epoch in the Decorative Arts 1820s - 1890s
State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Summer 1996
Sarah Foster
Shiny, shiny
The Silver Galleries
| London
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Ed. by Philippa Glanville
V&A Publications, London
Ulrich Lehmann
No room(s) for designer dresses
| MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Eliza 5.0 and Leena Krohn
Computer psychology
Steve Baker
Off their ladders
Animal Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
| 24 January 8 March 1997
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Mark Dion: Natural History and Other Fictions
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
25 January - 31 March 1997
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Kunstverein, Hamburg
19 June - 10 August 1997
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De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
29 August - 19 October 1997
Celia Joicey
End of the century blues
Lionel Lambourne
| The Aesthetic Movement Phaidon Press, London
Stephen Escritt
Picture this
Jeremy Howard
| Art Nouveau: International and National Styles in Europe Manchester University Press
Klaus Jrgen Sembach
Art Nouveau
Utopia: Reconciling the Irreconcilable
| Taschen, Cologne
Ruth Levy
Just my type
| Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
and Thames & Hudson, New York Esther Leslie
Hausbound
Erica Carter: How German is She? Postwar German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman
| University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor
Hannah Andrassy
True colours
Peter MacDonald
The 1819 Key Pattern Book. One Hundred Original Tartans Jamieson & Munro, Perth
Kathleen Jamie
Arraheids
Poem
| Katherine Sharp
No shuger no sweetmeats
Marcia Pointon
| Strategies for Showing. Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture 1665-1800 Oxford University Press
Colette Forder
The Persona fertility monitor
Hannah Andrassy
Dummy love
The Cutting Edge: Fifty Years of British Fashion, 1947-1997
| London, 6 March - 27 July 1997
Hildi Hawkins
The lone ranger
Poem
Stephen Escritt
Life after Le Corbusier
Charlotte Perriand: Modernist Pioneer
Design Museum, London
24 October 1996 - 13 April 1997
Gavin Stamp
The migration of the telephone kiosk
Lisa Hirst
Hard focus
Contemporary fashion photographs
| London, 9 March - 26 May 1997
Charles Rattray
And another thing...
Me and my Jag
| Raija Siekkinen
Short story
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